Lawrence Durrell Bibliography - Poetry & Plays
Below is a list of publications of Lawrence Durrell's poetry and plays. For his other work, see the menu on the right.
Lawrence Durrell: Selected Poems
edited by Peter Porter
2006
A short (64 page) collection of Durrell's poems published in 2006 by Faber, edited and with an introduction by Peter Porter.
Collected Poems 1931-1974
Edited by James A Brigham
1980
A complete collection of Durrell's printed poems (excluding verse dramas) published up to 1974.
Selected Poems 1935-1963
Edited by Lawrence Durrell
1964
An updated edition of the 1956 Selected Poems, published by Faber.
An Irish Faustus: A Modern Morality in Nine Scenes
1963
A verse play. See the links & resources section for a review of the 1964 Hamburg production.
Sappho
1950
Sappho was a verse play, which caught the imagination of Margaret Rawlings on its publication in 1950. She made a public reading of the play in 1952 and finally performed in it at the Edinburgh Festival in 1961.
On Seeming to Presume
1948
Regarding this collection, Durrell wrote to T.S. Eliot: "I think that some are OK, some so-so and some wonderful."
Cities, Plains and People
1946
In 1946, Durrell wrote to a friend regarding the reception of Cities, Plains and People: "I was surprised to find that while one group of papers thought it dry and scholarly, another thought it full of "audenesque gags" and the atmosphere of the '20s."
