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"[Lawrences] work in verse is a very important part of his literary achievement. He said something in his verse that he could never have said in prose, and his best poems are among the most valuable and significant in the English language written in the 20th century.'--from the introduction
This definitive collection includes all the poems from the incomplete Collected Poems of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued during his lifetime; uncollected poems; an appendix of juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts; and all Lawrences critical introductions to his poems. Also included are full textual and explanatory notes, glossary and index.