Collected Poems of Sidney Keyes
By Michael Meyer
Sidney Keyes was killed in Tunisia at the age of 20. In 1944 he was posthumously awarded the Hawthorden Prize for his two volumes of poems, The Iron Laurel (1942) and The Cruel Violence (1943). This volume contains an introductory memoir by the poet’s friend, Michael Meyer, and many hitherto unpublished poems in addition to those that have already appeared. It is the definitive edition of the work of a genius of whom Victoria Sackville-West wrote: “The astonishing maturity of his mind, the intense seriousness of his outlook, and his innate pre-occupation with major things, suggest that here potentially was the war-poet for whom England has been waiting.”
By Michael Meyer
Sidney Keyes was killed in Tunisia at the age of 20. In 1944 he was posthumously awarded the Hawthorden Prize for his two volumes of poems, The Iron Laurel (1942) and The Cruel Violence (1943). This volume contains an introductory memoir by the poet’s friend, Michael Meyer, and many hitherto unpublished poems in addition to those that have already appeared. It is the definitive edition of the work of a genius of whom Victoria Sackville-West wrote: “The astonishing maturity of his mind, the intense seriousness of his outlook, and his innate pre-occupation with major things, suggest that here potentially was the war-poet for whom England has been waiting.”
By Michael Meyer
Sidney Keyes was killed in Tunisia at the age of 20. In 1944 he was posthumously awarded the Hawthorden Prize for his two volumes of poems, The Iron Laurel (1942) and The Cruel Violence (1943). This volume contains an introductory memoir by the poet’s friend, Michael Meyer, and many hitherto unpublished poems in addition to those that have already appeared. It is the definitive edition of the work of a genius of whom Victoria Sackville-West wrote: “The astonishing maturity of his mind, the intense seriousness of his outlook, and his innate pre-occupation with major things, suggest that here potentially was the war-poet for whom England has been waiting.”