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:

    “I know an Englishman,
    Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
    —George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)