Collected Poems, 1955-1975

Levi Peter

This volume brings together Peter Levi's early books, pamphlets and other uncollected poems written over a period of twenty years to 1975. His subsequent books of poetry are "Five Ages" (1978), "Private Ground" (1981), "The Echoing Green" (1983), "The Lamentation of the Dead" (1984), "The Noise Made by Poems" (1984), "Shakespeare's Birthday" (1985), "Goodbye to the Art of Poetry" (1989), "Shadow and Bone" (1989), "The Rags of Time" (1994), "Reed Music" (1997) and "Viriditas" (2001).

About the Author

Peter Levi (1931-2000) was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1984. Until 1977 he was a Jesuit priest. He was a classicist whose writing includes three uncategorizable books – on modern Greece, Afghanistan, and the English landscape – as well as translations, critical and scholarly works, a thriller and many collections of poems.

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