Poems (poetry by Golding)
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Poems was the first work by British
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 novelist William Golding
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies...

 (better known for Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results...

, among other novels). Released in 1934, a full 20 years before Lord of the Flies (his second major work and first novel), he later derided it, but critics in retrospect called it "not bad."
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