Poems of dedication /
"This is Mr. Spender's first volume of poems for five years...These poems are at once poems dedicated to people and poems of self-dedication. The first six poems (themselves written at intervals during six years) constitute an elegy dedicated to the memory of Margaret Spender. After this g...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Faber and Faber Limited,
MCMXLVII [1947]
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| Summary: | "This is Mr. Spender's first volume of poems for five years...These poems are at once poems dedicated to people and poems of self-dedication. The first six poems (themselves written at intervals during six years) constitute an elegy dedicated to the memory of Margaret Spender. After this group of poems commemorating a death, follows a group of poems on themes of birth, love and separation. The third group of poems, Spiritual explorations (dedicated to a fellow poet, Cecil Day Lewis) is the most sustained attempt by the author to integrate a veiw of the isolated situation of the individual, with an heroic idea of the re-creation of modern man's conception of life. The last group, of landscapes and seascapes, reaches beyond the personal preoccupations of the other poems into a wider detachment" -- Publisher's description, book jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Publication year and printer statement from title page verso. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 58 pages ; 22 cm |