Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics)

In 1929 the author went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This book is an account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.

Reviews

A remarkable book ... Essential reading for the centenary of the first world war—Guardian

One of the most candid self-portraits of a poet, warts and all, ever painted—The Times Literary Supplement

We see the dark heart of the book even more clearly, and hear it beating even more loudly, in this original edition than we do in the comparatively careful and considered terms of the later one—Andrew Motion