Author: SITWELL, EDITH
Title: The Canticle of the Rose - Selected Poems 1920-1947
Description: London, Macmillan. 1950. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold Title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a neat name and year to front endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is not price clipped and has age darkening. This selection contains the very early work 'Facade', a work that consists mainly of abstract poems, studies in transcendental technique, some of a great exhilaration, some of a sadness masked by gaiety, many excerpts from 'The Sleeping Beauty' and from 'Bucolic Comedies'. Included also is the slightly later long poem 'Gold Coast Customs' praised by W.B. Yeats. C3C. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Poetry, English Poets


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