Author: [STEVENS, Wallace] STEBBINS, C. (editor)
Title: Verses from the Harvard Advocate. Third Series 1886-1906
Description: Cambridge, The Harvard Advocate, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth with gilt decoration on the front cover; xiii, [1], 214, [2] pages. Includes poems by Witter Bynner, Bliss Carman, Arthur Davison Ficke, and others, most notably 5 poems by Wallace Stevens (class of '01), an early appearance in print of the poet whose first appearance in a book was in 1899. His first book, HARMONIUM, was not published until 1923. The 5 poems by Stevens are: "Song" ('She loves me or loves me not'); "Song" ('Ah yes! beyond these barren walls'); "Street Songs" ("The Pigeons," "Statuary," "The Minstrel"); "Outside the Hospital"; and "Sonnet" ('There shines the morning star!'). Edelstein B4. Wigglesworth Cottage" in ink on the front endpaper. Spine gilt faded, upper corners bumped. Near Fine .

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