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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in twentieth-century English poetry who wish to read original poems directly
- Learners with basic English reading ability willing to read poems closely one by one
- Readers who enjoy short lyric poetry and are used to reading in fragments of time
- General readers who want a low-cost e-book sample of English poetry
Not a good fit for
- Beginners who struggle with English reading and need line-by-line translation
- Readers who prefer long novels or strongly plotted books; a poetry collection lacks narrative momentum
- Readers expecting a systematic poet biography and detailed notes; this is a text of poems
Reading tips
- First flip through three to five poems at random to get a sense of tone and subject, then decide whether to read in order.
- Read each poem twice: the first time for overall impression, the second for diction and line breaks.
- Keep brief notes on recurring images or moods, and review them after finishing.
- Do not force yourself to finish in one sitting; read in several sessions over weeks so the poems can settle.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996) was a British poet. Born in 1893 and dying in 1996, he lived across more than a century. During the First World War he wrote as a war poet, and the experience of war became an important background to his poetry. After the war he worked for many years as an editor and writer, continuing to devote himself to literary work. His representative work is the poetry collection Poems. Public information on his education, specific posts and awards is limited, and only one of his works is currently held in the collection. From the available information, his writing and editorial career spanned much of the twentieth century, and his war poetry offers one perspective on the wartime experience of that generation of British poets.
