THE PLEASURES OF POSSESSION; or, the enjoyment of the present moment, contrasted with those of Hope and Memory. A poem.

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12mo, pp. xv, [i], 112; with an engraved frontispiece by White after Jackson, and one other plate (at p. 59) by the same; some offsetting of both plates, else a decent copy in contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, marbled endpapers (spine a little chipped at head and tail). Contemporary armorial bookplate of T.C. Watts. First edition of an ambitious philosophical poem with the rather modern theme of living in the present moment, cultivating simplicity and campaigning for social justice. The notes inveigh against - among other things - the killjoys who would abolish the simple pleasures of the poor - the village fair, the sports on the local green, country dancing and singing. The poem was published by Clio Rickman, radical and friend of Tom Paine, whom the author thanks profusely in his preface: in fact Rickman published all three of Verral's poems. The preface is also somewhat unusual in that it includes a long and pedantic justification of Verral's decision not to use the apostrophe to indicate elision or the omission of an e - an old-fashioned practice which at this time was beginning to fade in any case. Jackson, Annals of Verse, p. 342. N° de ref. del artículo 19291

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