INVENTORY #155476
Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Verse
WAVELL, A. P.
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An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by A. P. Wavell [Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., CM.G., M.C.] A wide variety of verse, including Kubla Khan by Coleridge, The Pilgrim by John Bunyan, O Mistress Mine by Shakespeare, Sestina of the Tramp-Royal by Kipling, Bishop Blougram's Apology by Browning,, The Rolling English Road by G. K. Chesterton, Auguries of Innocence by Blake, Faith by Emerson, The Soldier's Death by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, etc. Index of authors, titles and first lines. Most poems in full but "I have abridged one or two long ones of which the whole has not been in my memory." For example, only extracts from Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.
Publication Info
- Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Edition: First Edition
- Date Published: 1945
- Place Published: New York
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: Yes
- Jacket Condition: Fair
- Details:
xxi, 406 p. 20 cm. Navy cloth in dustjacket. Jacket has chips and tears to edges and spine ends. Chipped spine head affects lettering. Some soiling and dampstains to jacket rear panel. Clear tape repairs to inside of jacket. White marks to cloth. Some offsetting to endpapers. Front free endpaper clipped.