Poems and satires, 1951 / Robert Graves
1951, 1st edition. London : Cassell & Co. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #418254
Physical description; 40 pp.; 20 cm. Contents; Poems: The White Goddess -- The chink -- Counting the beats -- The Jackals' address to Isis -- The death room -- The young cordwainer -- Your private way -- My name and -- Conversation piec -- The ghost and the clock -- Advice on May Day -- For the rain it raineth every day -- Questions in a wood -- The portrait -- Darien -- The survivor -- Prometheus -- Satires: Queen Mother to the new Queen -- Secession of the drones -- Damocles -- Homage to Texas -- The dilemma -- General Bloodstock's lament for England -- "Wellcome, to the Caves of Arta!" -- To a poet in trouble -- Revisions: The progress -- Traveller's curse after misdirection -- Sergeant-Major Money -- Brother. Subject; English poetry 20th century.
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