Collected Poems.
by EMPSON, William
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About This Item
Chatto and Windus, London., 1955. First U.K. edition. Differs from the American edition of 1949 in that it contains more poems as well as the author's Notes. Octavo. pp [x], 119. Slight bruise at head of spine, otherwise fine in very good indeed dustwrapper creased at head of spine.
Synopsis
Fifty-six poems, including "Chinese Ballad" and "A Masque (The Birth of Steel)." "The wrung-out, colloquial dryness of this diction has its own firm music, capable of being heightened, in more elaborate poems, to a grand polyphony."-Robert Fitzgerald, New Republic.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
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- EMPSONWI002201
- Title
- Collected Poems.
- Author
- EMPSON, William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus, London.
- Date Published
- 1955
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