Sacred and Secular Elegies
Softcover, Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1943. Very Good with no dust jacket.
Soundly stapled binding. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have minor edge rubbing, darkened near spine. George Granville Barker (1913–1991) was an English poet who identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. Designed by Carl Purington Rollins of Yale University Press in Linotype Baskerville after the edition of the Latin Elegiac poets printed by John Baskerville of Birmingham in 1772. Poets of the Year Series; 8.75" tall; 32 pages.
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