Williams, Oscar (ed.): New Poems 1942: An Anthology of British and American Verse

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Williams, Oscar (ed.) : New Poems 1942: An Anthology of British and American Verse

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1942.

8vo., 320 pp., Good. Blue Cloth, Dust Jacket with light damage, tears & losses along spine and corners; shelf wear, edge wear. Contributors include W.H. Auden (three poems), Randall Jarrell (four poems), Robinson Jeffers (one poem), Louis MacNeice (two poems, including Bagpipe Music), Marianne Moore (two poems), Delmore Schwartz (one poem), Stephen Spender (five poems), Wallace Stevens (Six Discordant Songs), Dylan Thomas (five poems, including Ballad of the Long Legged Bait, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, There Was a Saviour, The Hunchback in the Park etc), W.R. Rodgers etc contribute. Other contributors include: William Empson, C. Day Lewis, Conrad Aiken, Frederic Prokosch, Kenneth Allott, John Peale Bishop, R.P. Blackmur, Jean Garrigue, Theodore Spencer, Karl Shapiro, Robert Penn Warren etc. Six page Introduction by the editor. Eight pages of black and white photographs or reproductions of portraits of most of the contributors. Eight pages of biographical notes. The first publication of several of the poems (including Wallace Stevens' contribution). The first appearance in book form of many of the other poems.

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