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Works :: POEMS
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 When Golding was an undergraduate at Oxford University, he showed some of his poems to a friend. The friend was struck by the quality of Golding's work, and sent a selection of poems to Macmillan & Co., where he knew an editor. Poems by W.G. Golding was published in the autumn of 1934, when their author was just twenty-three. In later years Golding felt regretful that they had been published, and is even recorded as having bought a second-hand copy of them so that he could tear the book up. (This was before he found out it was a collector's item of some considerable value.) However, the poems are accomplished and individual. While they are not as forceful and compelling as the novels, they are recognizably the works of a determined, independent and accomplished writer.
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