Anna Wickham: Richards' Shilling Selections from Edwardian Poets.

Wickham (Anna)

Anna Wickham: Richards' Shilling Selections from Edwardian Poets.

[Edited by John Gawsworth.]

Description: FIRST EDITION, single tiny spot to fore-margin of prelims, pp. 32, crown 8vo, original printed sewn orange wrappers, lightly dustsoiled, small library label of poet Ruth Pitter to inside front-cover, very good

Publication Details: [The Richards Press,] [1936]

Notes: Richards had, twenty years earlier, published Wickham's 'Man with a Hammer' - though by this time, its founder was somewhat distanced from his firm. Her present revival came as the first in a series instituted by the energetic John Gawsworth (a.k.a. Terence Fytton Armstrong, to whom the poem 'Conscience' here is dedicated) - though the idea of 'Edwardian poetry' had been curtailed by the King's abdication at the end of that year, and by the time of the collection the following year the term 'Neo-Georgian' was being employed.This is a notable association copy, owned by a poet included in the o...moreRichards had, twenty years earlier, published Wickham's 'Man with a Hammer' - though by this time, its founder was somewhat distanced from his firm. Her present revival came as the first in a series instituted by the energetic John Gawsworth (a.k.a. Terence Fytton Armstrong, to whom the poem 'Conscience' here is dedicated) - though the idea of 'Edwardian poetry' had been curtailed by the King's abdication at the end of that year, and by the time of the collection the following year the term 'Neo-Georgian' was being employed.This is a notable association copy, owned by a poet included in the original 'Edwardian Poetry' anthology, alongside Wickham, earlier the same year - indeed, as Wickham's biographer Jennifer Vaughan Jones records, it was these two that were singled out for praise from the critics (p. 240).The final poem in the collection, 'Prayer to Love', is dedicated to D.H. Lawrence. HIDE

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