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Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems

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Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems presents the definitive collection of works by Keith Douglas, a poet whose talent shone brightly despite his brief life. Killed in Normandy at just twenty-four, Douglas captured the stark realities of the Second World War with honesty and brilliance. Beginning his writing journey at Christ's Hospital and continuing through Oxford and his military service, his poetry remains a powerful testament to his experience and promise.
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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.

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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.

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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

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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