A Fool i' the Forest : A Phantasmagoria by Michael Copp

First published in 1925, and frequently compared to T.S. Eliot's?The Waste Land,?A Fool i' the Forest?is a modernist's poetic expression of his ongoing struggles with overcoming the trauma of military service in the First World War. Taking its title from Shakespeare's phantasmagoric?As You Like It,?A Fool?surveys three aspects of one character - `I', Mezzetin and the Conjuror - as they struggle, and ultimately fail, to find a way to reconcile their differences and live with one another. Enriched with a fascinating introduction and explanatory notes by leading Aldington scholars Michael Copp and Elizabeth Vandiver, this centenary edition seeks to place?A Fool?firmly back into the canon of postwar poetry, from which it has been missing for too long.
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