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Selected Poems First Published: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1956 (First UK Edition) Also Published: Grove Press, 1956 (First US Edition), 79 pages. This edition of Durrell's selected poems was later surplanted by the Collected Poems of 1960, published by Faber & Faber, as well as by Dutton in the US. Poems included in this volume are divided into five groups, as Durrell's introduction to the book notes: "These poems, selected from four published volumes of verse, have been grouped according to type and subject matter. The first group contains lyrics of general and specific subject matter, the second short biographies of real or imaginary people; the third and fourth groups contain respectively poems about particular landscapes and ballads. To these I have added two longer poems, for which I dare to claim the merit of formal completeness if nothing else." The poems, according to their groupings, are as follows: I. (Lyrics) Echo Water Music Summer in Corfu River Water Lesbos Niki Chanel To Ping-Kû, Asleep A Prospect of Children Pomona de Maillol Green Coconuts Christ in Brazil On Seeming to Presume Carol on Corfu This Unimportant Morning 'Je Est Un Autre' Freedom Truth II. (Short Biographies) On First Looking Into Loeb's Horace Byron Heloise and Abelard A Portrait of Theodora Manoli of Cos A Rhodian Captain Fangbrand III. (Landscapes) Nemea On Ithaca Standing At Corinth In Arcadia Sarajevo Alexandria Cairo Nicosia At the Long Bar Delos IV. (Ballads) A Ballad of the Good Lord Nelson Ballad of Psychoanalysis V. (Longer Poems) The Parthenon Deus Loci