The Flute: [a sonnet translated from the French of José-Maria de Heredia]. With other translations [12 poems from the Dutch of P.C. Boutens, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft and Joost van den Vongel, and another sonnet by Heredia] and a poem ["Shakespeare and Scotland"] by H.J.C. Grierson

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Cloth-backed (linocut) patterned boards. Covers a little darkened at spine and edges, lettering-label slightly chipped, upper board sometime mildly scuffed, corners mildly rubbed, a few pages slightly foxed. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies. The "first moderately substantial Samson Press book" (Paul W. Nash) - the press had commenced business earlier that year. Flora Grierson, partner with Joan Shelmerdine in the Samson Press, was the second daughter of Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960), editor of John Donne and the first Professor of English Literature at Aberdeen University, 1894-1915, and then George Saintsbury's successor as Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh, 1915-35. "This is the first book of verse he has published," declared the Samson Press's prospectus. "'If the best or only ultimate test of translation is that its result should be excellent by itself, then Professor Grierson has nothing to fear,' wrote the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement. It was recommended by V. Sackville-West in a recent broadcast talk, 'both for the reading matter and the excellence of the printing.'" The latter is particularly pleasing. "So by this shrine the Scottish Muse may stand / Holding her statelier sister by the hand. / Bone of his bone, clay of his sacred clay / Are we who face this welt'ring storm today, / One 'happy breed of men,' one 'little world' / On whom the hissing waves of hate are hurl'd, / The envy and hatred of 'less happier' men; / Yet see o'er English meadow and Scottish glen, / On fields of France, and in far scatter'd lands, / Western sierras, Australasian strands, Mesopotamian marsh and African sands, / Through April glow of pride and shadow of pain / The sun of Shakespeare's England rise again" (last lines of "Shakespeare and Scotland", 1916). N° de ref. del artículo 30M100248

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