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Collected PoemsSidney Keyes![]() 10% off Hardback
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (136 pages) (Pub. Jun 2002) 9781857545647 Out of Stock Hardback (180 pages) (Pub. Jun 2002) 9781857545807 £18.95 £17.05
War Poet
I am the man who looked for peace and found My own eyes barbed, I am the man who groped for words and found An arrow in my hand. I am the builder whose firm walls surround A slipping land. When I grow sick or mad Mock me not nor chain me: When I reach for the wind Cast me not down: Though my face is a burnt book And a wasted town March 1942
A nature poet by inclination, Sidney Keyes was drawn to the work of Holderlin and Rilke, taking them -paradoxically- to war against the Germans. They draw out his essentially Wordsworthian temperament; he was also touched by the very different imaginative worlds of Schiller and Paul Klee. A passion forthe microcosmic coexists with an ability to deal with large truths in his own voice or to enter into the imagination of other, of Clare and Yeats for example. Though he died young, his achievement is real. His dramatic monologues, his poems of landscape, of the weird and macabre, and his amstery of blank verse set him apart.
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