Synopses & Reviews
Laurie Lee was a celebrated English novelist, screenwriter, and poet, whose autobiographical novels
Cider with Rosie,
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and
A Moment of War found enormous popularity in England. However, poetry was really his favorite form of writing, an area where success frustratingly eluded him.
Laurie Lee Selected Poems collects forty of Lees best poems, and provides the perfect introduction to this beloved authors lesser known works. The collection contains works such as Lees first poem, which appeared The Sunday Referee in 1934, poems first published in Cyril Connollys Horizon magazine in 1940, and selections from his first volume of poems, The Sun My Monument. Several poems written in the early 1940s reflect the atmosphere of the war, but also capture the beauty of the English countryside. Also included is the poem Twelfth Night” from My Many-coated Man, which was set for unaccompanied mixed choir by American composer Samuel Barber in 1968.
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Lees birth, and consequently a resurgence of interest in Lees body of work. Laurie Lee Selected Poems is the perfect choice for those wanting a new look at an engaging author.
About the Author
Laurie Lee (1914-97) was the author of numerous novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays. He lived much of his life in Slad, Gloucestershire.
Table of Contents
Invasion Summer
A Moment of War
Words Asleep
Music in a Spanish Town
Juniper
At Night
Landscape
The Armoured Valley
Larch Tree
The Three Winds
Interval
Equinox
Milkmaid
Village of Winter Carols
Guadalquivir
The Wild Trees
Christmas Landscape
Poem for Easter
April Rose
First Love
The Long War
Moss-Rose
Bird
Black Edge
Thistle
My Many-Coated Man
Summer Rain
Field of Autumn
Day of these Days
Boy in Ice
The Edge of Day
Twelfth Night
The Easter Green
Sunken Evening
The Pollard Beech
Song by the Sea
Long Summer
Scot in the Desert
To Matthew Smith
Cock-Pheasant
Town Owl
Home from Abroad
Apples
The Abandoned Shade
Bombay Arrival
On Beacon Hill
Shot Fox
Girl under Fig-tree
Night Speech
Stork in Jerez
Fish and Water
Seafront