lawrence-durrell

British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer (1912–1990), best known for The Alexandria Quartet.

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  1. 1. Collected Poems 1931 1974

    A sweeping anthology of verse written over four decades, this collection traces a restless, cosmopolitan voice that moves through Mediterranean landscapes, colonial India and wartime Europe to probe love, exile, memory and the nature of artistic creation; the poems range from spare, lyrical meditations to richly allusive, myth-inflected sequences, mixing sensual imagery, classical reference and philosophical reflection to explore identity, time and the ache of longing.