Author: NICHOLSON & LEE
Title: The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1949, reprint. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. blue cloth with gilt and blind tooling and titling, very tidy boards, fep offset browned, xv 644pp, price clipped DW has thin strip of clear tape along top and bottom edges, and some chipping loss at head of spine as well as darkening where the tape is drying out, or where it has dried and flaked off, includes Aleister Crowley's 'The Quest' 'The Neophyte' and 'The Rose and the Cross', from a time before his notoriety became widespread, also poems by A.E. Yeats, A E Waite 'At the End of Things' 'A Ladder of Life' 'Restoration' 'How I came to the Sea' 'Of Consummation' 'Diagnosis, The Morality of the Lost Word', Waites 12pp as compared to Crowley's five must have galled him!. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Mysticism Religious Poetry Aleister Crowley Arthur Edward Waite William Butler Yeats a E George Russell English


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