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Documenting the quest to track down everything written by (and written about) the poet, translator, critic, and radio dramatist, Henry Reed.

An obsessive, armchair attempt to assemble a comprehensive bibliography, not just for the work of a poet, but for his entire life.

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The Quest for Corvo: A.J.A. Symon's experimental biography of Frederick Rolfe, the Baron Corvo.
High Hopes: Trans-Atlantic correspondence between aspiring poets in the 1950s.
Gormenghast: Book two of Mervyn Peake's trilogy on the fantastic gothic castle.


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When I'm not being crazy-obsessive about a certain lesser-known English poet, I like to unwind on a nice, pebbly beach, with my feet in the river and the sand squishing up between my toes, and pick up fossil shark teeth.
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What is Henry Reed's first name?

1457. Bebbington, W.G. "Of the Moderns Without Contempt." Poetry Review 37, no. 1 (1946): 17-28 [17].
Reaction to modern poetry calls Reed the "protagonist" in the correspondence following his "Poetry in War Time" articles for The Listener.



1st Lesson:

Reed, Henry (1914-1986). Born: Birmingham, England, 22 February 1914; died: London, 8 December 1986.

Education: MA, University of Birmingham, 1936. Served: RAOC, 1941-42; Foreign Office, GC&CS, 1942-1945. Freelance writer: BBC Features Department, 1945-1980.

Author of: A Map of Verona: Poems (1946)
The Novel Since 1939 (1946)
Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel (1947)
Lessons of the War (1970)
Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio (1971)
The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio (1971)
Collected Poems (1991, 2007)
The Auction Sale (2006)


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