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Benet, William Rose : The Spirit of the Scene

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1951

Original publisher's blue cloth binding with yellow and red dust wrapper in mylar. Silver foil lettering on the front cover and spine of the book. 6" x 8 1/2." 101 pages, complete. In the back are the Acknowledgments and a colophon about the type. The page facing the half-title and the back flap of the dust wrapper list other works by the author. There is a brief biography and reprinted photograph of the author on the back panel of the dust wrapper. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper has slight wear at the head and tail of the spine and a couple minuscule chips in the upper corners of the front panel. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust wrapper. A collection of poems by William Rose Benet. William Rose Benet (1886-1950) was an American poet and editor. He co-founded the Saturday Review of Literature in 1924. In 1942, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The following poems are in this book: "Night Study," "Genesis," "Anthropos," "All Flesh," "The House Is Strange," "The Dark Wave," "Godsend," "The Saving Grace," "The Voice," "Song Under Shadow," "Man with Pigeons," "Worlds," "Troppo Disputare," "Beyond," "The Wonder," "The Spellbound Young," "Transit of Youth," "Circumstance," "Forebears," "Fortune Told," "Six Poets," "The Ephesian Temple," "A Pleiad of Epigrams," "Lucis Amor," "'Better Than Wisdom,'" "'Where Was My Darling,'" "Perpetuity," "For a Dancer," "Bay State June," "Indicia," "Autumn Sea," "Starfall," "The Spirit of the Scene," "The Parson Poet," "The Caravels," "The Dark People," "The Fancy," "Fontainebleau," "Gray Parrot," "Natty Bumppo's Grave," "Black Caesar," "Pelagius," "The Bright Lit Room," "The Captive," "The Oligarchs," "The Healer," "On the Air," "Kingdom Come," "Children of Juggernaut," "'Sovereignty,'" "This Is Our Island," "The Star," "Address to Archeus," "Terror Is the Essence," "The Words of Jesus," and "Summa.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine

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