A Fool i' the Forest : A Phantasmagoria

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.