Marlborough and Other Poems

This 1916 book by the British war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915) offered the definitive version of his poems.

Charles Hamilton Sorley (Author)

9781107651739, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 April 2012

150 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 0.9 cm, 0.17 kg

Originally published in 1916, Marlborough and Other Poems by the British war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915) was included in the Cambridge Miscellany series in 1932. It is the 'Miscellany' edition which is re-issued here. It was intended to offer the definitive version of Sorley's poems and was published together with some prose illustrations and a preface written by the poet's father.

Preface
Part I. Of the Downs: 1. Barbury camp
2. Stones
3. East Kennet Chruch at evening
4. Autumn dawn
5. Return
6. Richard Jefferies
7. J. B.
8. The other wise man
9. Marlborough
10. Le revenant
11. Lost
Part II. Of School: 12. Rain
13. A tale of two careers
14. What you will
Part III. Of Life and Thought: 15. A call to action
16. Peace
17. The river
18. The seekers
19. Rooks
20. Rooks (ii)
21. The song of the ungirt runners
22. German rain
23. Brand
24. Peer Gynt
25. To poets
26. 'If I have suffered pain'
27. Whom therefore we ignorantly worship
28. Deus loquitur
29. Expectans expectavi
Part IV. Of War and Death: 30. 'All the hills and vales along'
31. To Germany
32. 'A hundred thousand million mites we go'
33. Two sonnets
34. A sonnet
35. 'There is such change in all those fields'
36. 'I have not brought my Odyssey'
37. In memoriam S. C. W., V.C.
38. Behind the lines
Illustrations in prose
Notes. Illustrations in prose
Notes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]