Poems (William Golding)

Poems was the first work by British novelist William Golding (better known for Lord of the Flies, among other novels). Released in 1934, a full 20 years before Lord of the Flies (his second major work and first novel), he later derided it, but critics in retrospect called it "not bad."

William Golding
Works
  • Poems (1934)
  • Lord of the Flies (1954)
  • The Inheritors (1955)
  • Pincher Martin (1956)
  • The Brass Butterfly : a Play in Three Acts (1958)
  • Free Fall (1959)
  • The Spire (1964)
  • The Hot Gates, and Other Occasional Pieces (1965)
  • The Pyramid (1967)
  • The Scorpion God : Three Short Novels (1971)
  • Darkness Visible (1979)
  • Rites of Passage (1980)
  • A Moving Target (1982)
  • Nobel Lecture, 7 December 1983 (1984)
  • The Paper Men (1984)
  • An Egyptian Journal (1985)
  • Close Quarters (1987)
  • Fire Down Below (1989)
  • The Double Tongue (1995)
List of works

Famous quotes containing the word poems:

    “After all, poets shouldn’t be their own interpreters and shouldn’t carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)