Collected Poems
  • Published: 3 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241625187
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.00

Collected Poems

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24 Jul 2013
Hardback
6 Feb 2024
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5 Oct 2023
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26 Sep 2012
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3 Nov 2024
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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 experiences of lives uprooted by change and conflict. Written during the course of his lifetime, the verses brought together in Collected Poems range over Lee playing his fiddle in a Spanish town; ecstatic in springtime of his beloved Slad valley; or digging for faith in the depths of winter.

Gathered in one volume for the first time, and including a generous selection of previously unseen verses from Lee's archives, these timeless, poignant poems show him expressing the essence of life, love and loss.
  • Published: 3 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241625187
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Vladimir Nabokov

One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) was born in St Petersburg, but left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. His other books include Ada or Ardor (1969), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Pale Fire (1962), the short story collection Details of a Sunset (1976) and Lolita (1955), his best-known novel.

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Praise for Collected Poems

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