The Collected Poems of Frank Prewett ( Poetry / Poet )( Intro by Robert Graves )( includes selections from: Poems[ 1920 ]; A Rural Scene [ 1924 ], plus 38 previously unpublished poems / Three Broadcast Talks [ 1954 ]Farm Life in Ontario Fifty Years Ago )

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----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Near Fine example, a bit of age toning to paper, small ink name and 1966 date ( Orest Rudzik who was an academic at the University of Toronto, an active force in Canadian poetry circles who later became a lawyer ), small star stamp on rear blank endpaper, small spot on front blank endpaper, --- in a rubbed and lightly scuffed Good to Very Good price clipped dustjacket, some small flakes, nicks and a very short tear, jacket is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, , 63 pages, b&w photo ( frontispiece), collects 44 poems as well as "Farm Life in Ontario Fifty Years Ago: Three Broadcast talks (from 1964 ), -- Frank 'Toronto' Prewett was a Canadian poet. Born near Mount Forest, Ontario in 1893 probably of part-Iroquois stock, he was raised in Toronto and left in 1915 to fight in the First World War. Wounded and shell shocked, he met Siegfried Sassoon [wh] introduced him to a whole host of writers and encouraged Prewett to become a poet. In post-war England, prewett became the toast of the British literati and was known and feted by Lady Ottoline Morrell, W B Yeats, Thomas Hardy, T S Eliot, Robert graves, Edmund Blunden, Virginia and Leaonard Woolf and Aldous Huxley. He died in 1962 after a career as a broadcaster, editor and teacher, virtually unknown in his native land.---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 6w x 8.75 Inches.

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Título

The Collected Poems of Frank Prewett ( Poetry / Poet )( Intro by Robert Graves )( includes selections from: Poems[ 1920 ]; A Rural Scene [ 1924 ], plus 38 previously unpublished poems / Three Broadcast Talks [ 1954 ]Farm Life in Ontario Fifty Years Ago )

Editor

London, UK: Cassell, 1964, 1st Edition, First Printing, London, England

Fecha de publicación

1964

Encuadernación

Hard Cover

Ilustrador

Edward Ripley Cover Design

Edición

First Edition.

Estado

Near Fine

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Very Good

Firmado

Not Signed

Tipo de libro

Price Clipped Jacket

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• Canadian Literature Fiction