Author Description

Henry Reed, best-known perhaps for his much anthologized Second-World-War poem, "Naming of Parts," published only one book of poems in his lifetime--A Map of Verona. Writer of numerous radio plays and a fine translator, he never collected his many poems for a second book. This is the first collected edition of Reed's poems, including "Lessons of the War", A Map of Verona, and many works never before published. It includes an introduction giving biographical information and critical commentary on the poems, and notes on sources, as well as some of Reed's own handwritten manuscript comments.