Author: Plomer, William. (Ed. Stephen Gray).
Title: Selected Poems.
Description: Ad Donker 1985. 158pp softcover. No inscriptions. VG+ condition. ISBN: 9780868520667 This hard to find selection emphasizes his English poems. He was E. M Forster's favourite contemporary poet , W. H Auden extolled his visual imagination, and Stephen Spender considered his output among the best English poems of the 20thC. Yet for most readers William Plomer (1903 1973) is now a faintly-remembered name. Born in Pietersburg, South Africa, Plomer settled in London in 1929, where he went on to occupy a central position in English letters. By the time of his death he had published ten books of poetry. "The Mediterranean sighs Because it is so calm: On an evening such as this the rustling of a palm Seems almost ominous, Whispering of nemesis." [Sounds of Pleasure, Cannes, 1938].

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