Friday's child / by Wilfred Watson
1955, 1st Edition. London: Faber and Faber. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #355095
Physical description: 56 pages; 23 cm. Contents:
Invocation -- O my poor darling -- The white bird -- And should she ask -- An admiration for Dylan Thomas -- A contempt for Dylan Thomas -- Graveyard on a cliff of white sand -- Love song -- Ghosts -- The pearl -- To the Shadbolts, with six quinces from Duncan -- Song for St. Lucy's Night -- Orpheus and Eurydice -- Tarquin -- Lines for Elsie Jack -- Queen of tarts -- The juniper tree -- A curse of dahlias -- Of Hendrickje as Bathsheba -- Lines : I praise God's mankind in an old woman -- The windy bishop -- In the cemetery of the sun -- Canticle of darkness -- The boy and the shepherds -- A valediction for the end of the year -- Love song for Friday's child -- For Anne, who brought tulips -- Ballad of mother and son -- Yeats and Maud Gonne -- Emily Carr -- Letter to Dorothy Bazett. Subjects: Poetry. 20th century poetry. Poetry in English. Watson, Wilfred.
Price: €18.00