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Collected Poems.
por Empson, William
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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Sobre este item
London: Chatto and Windus, 1955. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [x], 119, [1]. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Some spotting to textblock edge. Cloth sunned, particularly to spine. Inscription to flyleaf: ‘For Mrs Irene Brown from William Empson’, contemporary compliments slip loosely inserted. An inscribed copy of the first edition of poet and critic William Empson’s Collected Poems; loosely inserted is a short note from Empson’s University of Sheffield colleague (and the recipient’s cousin) Dr Gilbert Kennedy wishing the recipient a happy birthday. Kennedy composed the music for Empson’s masque ’The Birth of Steel’ for the Queen’s 1954 visit to Sheffield, the text of which is printed to pp. 85-89 of this volume.
Sinopse
Fifty-six poems, including "Chinese Ballad" and "A Masque (The Birth of Steel)." "The wrung-out, colloquial dryness of this diction has its own firm music, capable of being heightened, in more elaborate poems, to a grand polyphony."-Robert Fitzgerald, New Republic.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- McNaughtan's Bookshop
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 5700
- Título
- Collected Poems.
- Autor
- Empson, William
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Chatto and Windus
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1955
- Palavras-chave
- Literature Poetry Inscribed Signed Modern First Editions
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Sobre McNaughtan's Bookshop
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