First published in 1925, and frequently compared to T.S. Eliots The Waste Land, A Fool i the Forest is a modernists poetic expression of his ongoing struggles with overcoming the trauma of military service in the First World War.
Taking its title from Shakespeares phantasmagoric Midsummer Nights Dream, 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.
