Another time : poems / by W.H. Auden
1940, 1st edition, 1st impression. London : Faber and Faber. Very good cloth copy in a poor, somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Provenance: Alan Witney's copy. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #444036
Physical description: 125 pages ; 23 cm. Contents: Contents. Part I. People and places. Wrapped in a yielding air -- Law, say the gardeners, is the sun -- The Creatures -- Schoolchildren -- Oxford -- A.E. Housman -- Edward Lear -- It's farewell to the drawing-room's civilized cry -- Perhaps I always knew what they were saying -- Brussels in Winter -- Rimbaud -- Hell is neither here nor there -- Herman Melville -- The Capital -- The hour-glass whispers to the lion's paw -- Pascal -- Voltaire at Ferney -- Lay your sleeping head, my love -- Orpheus -- The Novelist -- Musee des Beaux Arts -- The Composer -- Not as that dream Napoleon, rumour's dread and centre -- Where do they come from? Those whom we so much dread -- Gare du Midi -- As I walked out on e evening -- Matthew Arnold -- Dover -- Song -- For us like any other fugitive -- Underneath the leaves of life -- Part II. Lighter poems. Sharp and silent in the ... -- Three Ballads. (1) Miss Gee ; (2) James Honeyman ; (3) Victor -- Four Cabaret Songs for Miss Hedli Anderson. (1) Johnny ; (2) O Tell Me the Truth About Love ; (3) Funeral Blues ; (4) Calypso -- Madrigal -- Roman Wall Blues -- The Unknown Citizen -- Refugee Blues -- Part III. Occasional poems. Spain 1937 -- In Memory of W.B. Yeats -- In Memory of Ernst Toller -- September I, 1939 -- In Memory of Sigmund Freud -- Epithalamion. Subjects: 1900-1999. English poetry 20th century.
Price: €395.00