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\nElizabeth JenningsR.S.Thomas  \n月11422  \n# PENGUIN MODERN POETSI\n\nLAWRENCE DURRELL was born in India in I9I4 and educated atDarjeeling and St Edmund's School,Canterbury.After leading abohemian life in London for some years,he went abroad,and he hasspent most of his life near the Mediterranean.He has worked at theembassy in Cairo,and has been a press officer there and at Athens,anda press attaché in Alexandria and Belgrade.He has been a directorof British Council institutes in Kalmata(Greece)and Cordoba(Argen-tina),and was Director of Public Relations for the island of Cyprusduring the troubled fifties.He now writes books at his home inProvence.He is probably best known for The Alexandria Quartet(I957-6o),a‘word continuum'consisting of the four novels,Justine,Balthazar,Mountolive and Clea,but it was as a poet that he began writ-ing.His various books of poetry include A Private Country(I943),Cities,Plains and People(I946),On Seeming to Presume(I948),The Treeof Idleness(I955),and Collected Poems(I950).  \nELIZABETH JENNINGs,born at Boston,Lincolnshire,in r926,waseducated in Oxford at the High School and St Anne's College,whereshe read English.She is a free-lance writer,and describes herself as'unmarried and a Roman Catholic³.Her books of verse are:Poems(1953),which won an Arts Council prize,AWay of Lookeing(I955),which was given the Somerset Maugham Award,ASense of the World(I958),Songfor a Birth or a Deatb(I96r),Recoveries(I964),The Mind basMountains(I966)and Collected Poems(I967).In 1961 she also broughtout Every Changing Shape,a study of‘the relationship between mysticalexperience and the making of poems',and a translation (in collabora-tion)of Michaelangelo's sonnets.  \nR.S.THOMAS was born in Cardif in I9I3.He gained a Latin degreefrom University College of North Wales at Bangor.He is a clergyman,and was Rector of Manafon,Montgomeryshire,where he wrote manyof the poems in Song at the Year's Turning(I956),for twelve yearsbetween I942and I954.He is now Vicar of Eglwys Fach,Machynllyth,Cardiganshire.Mr Thomas was brought up to speak English,andtaught himself Welsh when he was adult.His other collections ofpoetry are Tbe Stones of the Field(1946),An Acre of Land(1952),TbeMinister(1953),Poetryfor Supper(I958)and Pieta(1966).  \n# Penguin Modern Poets\n\nI  \nLAWRENCE DURRELL  \nELIZABETH JENNINGS  \nR.S.THOMAS  \nPenguin Books Ltd,Harmondsworth,Midlesex,EnglandPenguin Books Australia Ltd,Ringwood,Victoria,Australia  \n一  \nThis selection first published 1962Reprinted 1963,1965,1967,1969,1970  \n一  \nCopyright CPenguin Books,r962  \n一  \nMade and printed in Great Britain by  \nC.Nicholls &Company LtdSet in Monotype Garamond  \nThis book is sold subject to the conditionthat it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be lent,re-sold,hired out,or otherwise circulatedwithout the publisher's prior consent in any form ofbinding or cover other than that in which it ispublished and without a similar conditionincluding this condition being imposedon the subsequent purchaser  \nontentsAcknowledgements9AProspect of ChildrenI3Christ in Brazil  \nLAWRENCE DURRELL  \nI4Carol on CorfuI5This Unimportant MorningI6'Je Est un Autre'I7TruthI8A Portrait of Theodora  \nI9A Rhodian Captain2IOn Ithaca Standing22Sarajevo23Delos24The Parthenon25Orpheus28Style29The Dying Fall30A Bowl of Roses3IOn Mirrors32The Sirens33Green Coconuts34On Seeming to Presume35The Prayer-Wheel37In Rio(from Journals of Progress)40Asphodels:Chalchidice42Clouds of Glory  \n4少4  \nA Water-Colour of VenicePomona de Maillol  \nSong at the Beginning of Autumn5IKings52The Enemies53For a Child Born Dead54In the Night55Beyond Possession56A Fear57Teresa of Avila58Fountain  \n6o  \nLetter from Assisi62A Death63Old Woman64AbsenceThe Shot66TheAnnunciation67In a Foreign City68Disguises69Ghosts70The Roman Forum7IMy Grandmother73Ata Mass  \n74To a Friend with a Religious Vocation75Two Deaths76The Counterpart77Harvest and Consecration78The Diamond Cutter79Song for a Birth or a 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Vocation\n# Two Deaths\n# The Counterpart\n# Harvest and Consecration\n# The Diamond Cutter\n# Song for a Birth or a Death\n# Family Affairs\n# A Game of Chess\n# Greek Statues\n# A Peasant\n# Affinity\n# An Old Man\n# The Cry of Elisha after Elijah\n# I\n# The Evacuee\n# Depopulation of the Hills\n# Cynddylan on a Tractor\n# Death of a Peasant\n# Welsh Landscape\n# Soil\n# Bread\n# The Lonely Farmer\n# Meet the Family\n# Children's Song\n# The Village\n# Song at the Year's Turning\n# Invasion on the Farm\n# A Person from Porlock\n# The Slave\n# Taliesin 1952\n# The Poacher\n# Priest and Peasant\n# The Last of the Peasantry\n# In a Country Church\n# No Through Road\n# Index of First Lines","[{\"question\":\"Which poets are featured in this Penguin selection?\",\"answer\":\"The selection profiles Lawrence Durrell, Elizabeth Jennings, and R.S. 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