AN ITALIAN VISIT [First edition]

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First impression of the true first edition. ***Near fine in blue cloth over a vellum spine, with white titles on a blue panel on the spine. A very attractive binding. Boards clean with just a small mark on the front board. Head of spine slightly creased. No tears to the cloth. Corners sharp. Spine tight. Top edge of page-block still nice and clean. Internally also near fine, with a neat ownership name on the front free endpaper 'V. H. L. Owen'. There is also a small contemporary Blackwell's bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Internally clean with no marks, creases or tears. Quality paper stock used. ***In a near fine blue printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 7s. 6d. net. The thin and fragile dustwrapper is remarkably clean and complete, with virtually no loss - just some rubbing at the head of the spine and corner tips. No chips or tears. There is some rubbing and wear to the edges of the dustwrapper commensurate with age and handling. The spine of the dustwrapper is very slightly faded. The light cream colour of the back panel of the dustwrapper is slightly darkened in places. ***77 pages. 206 mm x 138 mm. ***'This is one of the finest, most original and most enjoyable works of poetry published since the war. C. Day Lewis, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, has chosen a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: "Dialogue at the Airport"; "Flight to Italy"; "A Letter from Rome"; "Bus to Florence"; "Florence: Works of Art"; "Elegy Before Death: at Settignano"; "The Homeward Prospect". The whole resembles a suite in music; various metres are used, and each part is self-contained, though all are on the same subject -- a journey to and in Italy. The poet has used his first impressions of the country to illustrate certain deeper themes indicated by the epigraph: "---an Italian visit is a voyage of discovery, not only of scenes and cities, but also of the latent faculties of the traveller's heart and mind.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***'Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 - 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Irish-born, British poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. In Oxford, Day-Lewis became part of the circle gathered around W. H. Auden and helped him to edit Oxford Poetry 1927. During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information for the UK government, and also served in the Musbury branch of the British Home Guard. During the Second World War his work was now no longer so influenced by Auden and he was developing a more traditional style of lyricism. Some critics believe that he reached his full stature as a poet in "Word Over All" (1943), when he finally distanced himself from Auden. After the war he joined the publisher Chatto & Windus as a director and senior editor. In 1946, Day-Lewis was a lecturer at Cambridge University, publishing his lectures in "The Poetic Image" (1947). Day-Lewis was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by George VI in his 1950 Birthday Honours. He later taught poetry at Oxford, where he was Professor of Poetry from 1951 to 1956. During 1962-1963, he was the Norton Professor at Harvard University. Day-Lewis was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, in succession to John Masefield.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper, in nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de ref. del artículo 8178

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