Collected Poems 19551975 Author:Peter Levi Peter Levi, who died in 2000, was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1984. Until 1977 he was a Jesuit priest. He was a classicist whose writing includes three uncategorizable books - on modern Greece, Afghanistan, and the English landscape - as well as translations, critical and scholarly works, and a thriller. But he was first ... more »and foremost a poet. This volume brings together his early books, pamphlets and other uncollected poems written over a period of twenty years to 1975. His subsequent books of poetry are `Five Ages' (1978), `Private Ground' (1981), `The Echoing Green' (1983), `The Lamentation of the Dead' (1984), `The Noise Made by Poems' (1984), `Shakespeare's Birthday' (1985), `Goodbye to the Art of Poetry' (1989), `Shadow and Bone' (1989), `The Rags of Time' (1994), `Reed Music' (1997) and `Viriditas' (2001).« less