Collected Poems - Softcover

Reed, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857549430 ISBN 13: 9781857549430

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

WITH A FOREWORD BY FRANK KERMODE
Henry Reed (1914-86) is most familiar as the author of 'The Naming of Parts', the best-loved and most anthologised poem of the Second World War. He was a poet of much greater scope than that: in addition to publishing A Map of Verona, his 1946 collection, he was a fine translator, particularly from the Italian, and wrote acclaimed radio plays, including an ambitious adaptation of Moby-Dick and a series of six plays featuring his comic creation Hilda Tablet. On his death he left a sheaf of uncollected poems that had appeared in magazines or were in manuscript. These, together with all Reed's published work, a group of translations and a selection of songs from the radio plays, make up this Collected Poems. Jon Stallworthy, poet, critic and biographer of Wilfred Owen, has included a biographical and critical introduction to this profound, witty and humane poet.
Cover image 'Troops Resting' (detail) by Edward Ardizzone. Crown copyright, reproduced by permission of the Imperial War Museum.

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About the Authors

Henry Reed is best known for his widely anthologized World War II poem, 'Naming of Parts'. He also wrote numerous radio plays for the BBC and was a translator of Italian literature into English. He also published The Map of Verona.

Jon Stallworthy, born in 1935, was educated at Rugby, in the Royal West African Frontier Force, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize of Poetry. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature, he is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford. He has published seven books of poetry. His biography of Wilfred Owen won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He recently published a life of Louis MacNeice. He has edited Owen's Complete Poems and Fragments, Henry Reed's Collected Poems, and several anthologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857549430
• ISBN 13: 9781857549430
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Stallworthy Jon