A Fool i’ the Forest

<p>First published in 1925, and frequently compared to T.S. Eliot’s <em>The Waste Land</em>, <em>A Fool i’ the Forest</em> is a modernist’s poetic expression of his ongoing struggles with overcoming the trauma of military service in the First World War.</p><p>Taking its title from Shakespeare’s phantasmagoric <em>Midsummer Night’s Dream</em>, <em>A Fool</em> 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.</p><p>Enriched with a fascinating introduction and explanatory notes by leading Aldington scholars Michael Copp and Elizabeth Vandiver, this centenary edition seeks to place <em>A Fool</em> firmly back into the canon of postwar poetry, from which it has been missing for too long.</p>