Death in April and Other Poems

Originally published in 1944, this book is a collection of the poems of Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton (1888–1967).

George Rostrevor Hamilton (Author)

9781107641525, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 May 2014

48 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.2 cm, 0.06 kg

Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton (1888–1967) was an English literary critic and acclaimed war poet of WWI. Originally published in 1944, this collection of his poetry includes conventional poetic forms as well as more modern styles, with themes including antiquity, England and WWII. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in twentieth-century British poetry.

1. The runner
2. Prayer for the new-born
3. The discord
4. Beginning
5. Globe
6. Now
7. Thaw
8. Death in April
9. Lament for the body
10. Loss of memory
11. The denied
12. Corley: 1902
13. Youth remembered
14. First and last
15. Spring, in war time
16. Nature's wars
17. The tides
18. The ivy
19. The two songs
20. Fish of St Tropez
21. The hiding-place
22. The red house
23. Uriah
24. Invocation
25. The statesman
26. In fever
27. Birth
28. The way home
29. Roof scene
30. Oxford
31. Epitaphs in Greece
32. After the Greek
33. The bias
34. England again is ours
35. Atlantic
36. Timeless
37. Shot at dawn
38. The doubters.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]