Poems of dedication / by Stephen Spender
1947, 1st edition. London : Faber and Faber. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine and panel edges somewhat dulled, sun-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #444487
Physical description; 58 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Publication year and printer statement from title page verso. Contents; Part one: Elegy for Margaret: "Darling of our hearts, drowning" -- "Dearest and nearest brother" -- "From a tree choked by ivy, rotted" -- "Poor girl, inhabitant of a strange land" -- "Already you are beginning to become" -- "The final act of love" -- Part two: Love, birth, and absence: Summer -- Four eyes -- The dream -- Man and woman -- The trance -- Absence -- Lost -- Part three: Spiritual explorations: "We fly through a night of stars" -- "You were born; must die; were loved; must love;" -- "Since we are what we are, what shall we be" -- "We divided, join again in belief" -- "The immortal spirit is that single ghost" -- "I am that witness through whom the whole" -- "Outside, the eternal star-tall mountains gleam" -- "Light" -- Part four: Seascape and landscape: Midsummer -- Seacape -- Meeting -- Note. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. Contemporary poetry in English. Love poems. Poet Stephen Spender.
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