Collected Poems
$34.83
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2024
Summary
A landmark collection of poems from the author of Cider with Rosie, as evocative and poignant as his prose.
‘If ever I saw blessing in the air I see it now in this still early day…’
Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Yet Lee’s poems also captured war, human relationships and distant places, informed by his own exper…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241625170 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241625173 |
| Author: | Laurie Lee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 138mm x 204mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
PRAISE FOR DOWN IN THE VALLEY: It is a fine thing to revisit this writer’s landscape and hear his amiable voice in it again. * Times Literary Supplement *
A beautiful illustration of how, in some way, we are all indelibly influenced by the landscape of our childhood. – Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path
Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914. He was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen, he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War.
Lee published four collections of poems:
- The Sun My Monument (1944)
- The Bloom of Candles (1947)
- My Many-Coated Man (1955)
- Pocket Poets (1960)
His other works include:
- The Voyage of Magellan (1948)
- The Firstborn (1964)
- I Can’t Stay Long (1975)
- Two Women (1983)
He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography:
- Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969)
- A Moment of War (1991)
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