A masque and other poems.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. 8vo. [vii], 63 pp. FIRST EDITION. Cloth-backed boards with paper spine label, spine a bit soiled, label rubbed, some light soiling to boards; endpapers browned, small water-spot to foot of pages 33-60. Ownership inscriptions to fly-leaf. Item #11781
First edition. “The poem entitled How Launcelot came to the Nunnery in search of the Queen is an attempt to render in blank verse and as literally as possible the most dramatic episode in the Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory. The various tales here told in verse have no legendary foundation except as regards two lesser lyrics, The Christ of the snows and Adam”(Preface) BAL, 6, 14124; BMC, XVII, 522.
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