Author: [Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen]
Title: The Love Sonnets of Proteus. With a Frontispiece by the Author
Description: London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. 1881. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. 1881. Good. - Small octavo, gray cloth titled in gilt with decorations in blue & brown on the front cover & spine. The binding is soiled & darkened with a small stain to the front cover. x, [i], 119 & [1] pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece by the author. The front hinge is just starting & there is light offsetting to pages 6 and 7. Good.

First edition, printed on handmade, watermarked paper and bound by Burn & Co.

William Sharp, editor of "Sonnets of This Century" [1887] writes of Blunt's work included in that volume: "These sonnets are excerpted from the third edition of that remarkable volume, The Love Sonnets of Proteus. They have more of the Shakespearian ring than perhaps any sonnets of our time. That 'Proteus' can at times touch a very high note indeed will be understood by any one who reads the sonorous and majestic sonnet on The Sublime. Structurally, they cannot be considered satisfactory." . Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; SONNETS; THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS; WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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