Editor Barry Day has collected the definitive edition on Noel Coward's verse including all the work in the three-volumes published in Coward's lifetime plus rare, previously unpublished material Coward sent to family and friends. This new edition paints a more full and vivid portrait of this totally unique writer, known for his quick wit and insatiable interest in people and his skillful rendering of their public and private lives on stage. Â
The book is arranged in theme chapters on a wide variety of chapters including: war, theatre, love, friends, travel, and God and the infinite and is sprinkled with illustrations throughout. It also features the satirical "cod-pieces:—Chelsea Buns and Spangled Unicorn—and the verse collected in the 1967 volume Not Yet the Dodo.
Day's insightful narrative links the verse in the events of Coward's life.
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