NEWMAN, A. [MURRAY, Francis Edwin]
Murray (18541932) was a London-based printer, bookseller, and publisher, who became a member of the literary circle known as the Uranian Poets, and was its most prolific publisher. He adopted the pen name "A. Newman" for this collection and his subsequent 1924 volume, From a Lover's Garden. This book features an introduction by John Gambril Nicholson (18611931), a schoolmaster and prominent figure in the same poetic movement. As the title indicates, the collection relies heavily on the rondeau, a traditional French fixed-verse form characterized by a strict rhyme scheme and a repeating refrain. Dedicated to a young boy named Norman, probably not the boy in the tree. A small print run, so the book is scarce. D Arch Smith p. 248. Young 2851.
