Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems
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Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems
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By the time he was killed in Normandy on 9 June 1944, aged twenty-four, Keith Douglas had achieved a body of work that has earned his reputation as the most brilliant and promising poet of the Second World War.
By the time he was killed in Normandy, aged only twenty-four, in June 1944, Keith Douglas had achieved a body of work that has earned him the reputation as the most brilliant and promising poet of the Second World War. He began writing when he was at school at Christ's Hospital, continued at Oxford, and then when he was in the army in England and in the Middle East.
Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems is the definitive edition of his poems.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571276714
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 May 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 255g
Pages: 200
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About the Author
Keith Douglas was born in 1920. At school and at Oxford he was both a prolific poet and a committed member of the Officers Training Corps. When the Second World War broke out, he enlisted immediately, and was posted to Palestine in 1941. When his tank regiment began fighting in El Alamein in 1942, Douglas was instructed to stay behind as a staff officer. But he made his own way to the battlefield, an experience which he recounted in his prose memoir Alamein to Zem Zem (first published in 1946). He later took part in the Normandy invasion on 6 June 1944, and was killed three days later. His Collected Poems came out in 1951.
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