The Opalescent Parrot
1929, First Edition. Sheed & Ward, London. Very good copy in the original cloth-backed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong; 245 pages; Physical desc. : v, 245 p ; 20 cm. Contents: M. Baudelaire Whitewashes Longfellow - Carlyle: his rise and fall - A revaluation of Poe - An interlude - A French view of Milton - Bunyan revisited - Trompological peripatetics - George Meredith - Keats and his debtors - The tercentenary of Francis Bacon - An April day - Walt Whitman and American individualism - The unrecognised air - The revolt against reason - The real secret of Shakespeare's sonnets - The Nutter house - The eye of day - The dominion of literature. Subject: Literature. Item #19458
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