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  Collected Poems (Paperback) By (author) Lynette Roberts, Edited by Patrick McGuiness

  

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  Short Description for Collected PoemsOne of the most important and yet neglected 20th-century women poets is restored to her rightful place in the modernist tradition with this original collection, which operates on both a mythic and a domestic level.
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  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Published: 24 November 2005
  • Format: Paperback 220 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry | Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781857548426 ISBN 10: 1857548426
  • Sales rank: 32,628

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Our reviews for Collected Poems

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  Lynette Roberts only published one full collection of poems during her lifetime, but that collection (Poems, 1944) was brought out by Faber & Faber and edited by no less than T.S. Eliot. Today her work may have been almost forgotten, "but her vivid, modern, hot-blooded writing about a Welsh village and her time there during the Second World War" was very much appreciated back in the forties and fifties: Robert Graves -- no slouch himself when it came to poetry -- said she was "one of the few poets now writing." Her neglect is something of a scandal.
  
  Roberts "was brought up in a wealthy family in Argentina but married a writer from Carmarthenshire in 1939 at the outbreak of war and spent the next nine years living in poverty in a Welsh-speaking village. She involved herself in every aspect of village life and despite being accused of being a spy found a fierce passion for the local people and the landscape." According to Patrick McGuinness -- whose excellent long introductory essay at the start of this edition of Robert's Collected Poems is a must read -- the fact that her work "communicated before it made sense" was, for T.S. Eliot, testament to its great strength.
  
  You might not have heard of Lynette Roberts, but she is one Welsh war poet you really should read. Superb stuff. by Mark Thwaite

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