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Collected Poems 1935-1992 (2e)F.T. Prince10% off Paperback 2e
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Categories: 20th Century, War writings
Imprint: Fyfield Books Edition: 2nd Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) 2e Needs ADE! (Pub. Nov 2012) 9781847776846 £14.95 £13.45 Paperback 2e (320 pages) (Pub. Sep 2012) 9781847772084 £14.95 £13.45 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
And we too have our bitterness and pity that engage
Blood, spirit, in this war. But night begins, Night of the mind: who nowadays is conscious of our sins? Though every human deed concerns our blood, And even we must know, what nobody has understood, That some great love is over all we do, And that is what has driven us to this fury... from ‘Soldiers Bathing’
F.T. Prince’s Collected Poems 1935-1992 incorporates all the work that he wished to preserve, from his earliest published poems to late, uncollected pieces. Prince has become best known for his wartime poem ‘Soldiers Bathing’, a meditation on violence and redemption. Collected Poems reveals the riches of a lifetime’s work. His poetry combines a deep affinity with European humanist traditions and a modernist rigour: here is one of the essential twentieth-century writers.
Prefatory Note
POEMS (1938) An Epistle to a Patron To a Man on his Horse In the Wood The Tears of a Muse in America The Wind in the Tree On a Cold Night The Intention The Token Words from Edmund Burke To a Friend on his Marriage To My Sister The Letter Keeper’s Wood False Bay The Babiaantje The Moonflower In a Province Chapel-at-Ease For the Deserted For Fugitives For Thieves and Beggars Cefalù Chaka I The King Watches at Night II He Compares Old Customs with Those of his Kingdom III How Festivals were Celebrated IV He Bathes in the Morning V The People Rest after Conquests SOLDIERS BATHING (1954) I Soldiers Bathing The Inn The Dice The Diamond The Book The Question II Apollo and the Sybil The Old Age of Michelangelo THE DOORS OF STONE (1963) Watching Song Coeur de Lion ‘Moult sont Prud’hommes les Templiers’ Les Congés du Lépreux The Stolen Heart Mortimer Strambotti Gregory Nazianzen Campanella Strafford Autumn Journey Sea View Handfast Point At Beaulieu MEMOIRS IN OXFORD (1970) DRYPOINTS OF THE HASIDIM (1975) AFTERWORD ON RUPERT BROOKE (1976) A LAST ATTACHMENT (1979) LATER ON (1983) The Yüan Chên Variations His Dog and Pilgrim A Byron-Shelley Conversation NOT A PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEW (1986) WALKS IN ROME (1987) SENILIA Family Mottoes Youth and Age To a Granddaughter on one of her Suggestions for a Christmas Present On a Report that in Some Rest Homes Residents who are Depressed will be Charged at a Higher Rate Ecumenical Exchange, 1989 The Two Beggars: A Reminiscence Creation Myth Renouncing an Epigram Finis Coronat Opus Vivat Last Poem Notes Index of Titles and First Lines
'The mastery Prince achieved and the thrilling variety of his modes and voices means that, with the exception of the self-consciously minor late work (Prince labelled it "Senilia"), this volume reads like the highlights of a more copious body of work. Collected Poems will introduce readers to a poet of supreme skill and great intellectual curiosity.'
Paul Batchelor, the Guardian
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