[Cover title:] Fantasia.

Stead (William Force)

[Cover title:] Fantasia.

Description: FIRST EDITION, author's manuscript note at the foot of p. 4 (see below), pp. 16, crown 8vo, original grey stapled wrappers, browned to borders of front, edges untrimmed, good

Publication Details: Oxford: Privately printed at the Holywell Press, 1921

Notes: Inscribed at the head of the first page: 'To the Lady Ottoline Morrell, with the sincere regards of the author. Nov 27th 1921'. Scarce early work by the American poet and clergyman, who would later – whilst Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford – assist Eliot with the momentous decision of his conversion, baptising him in the church at Finstock. Stead was, at the time of publication, attending Queen's College – during which time he befriended Yeats and participated, like Eliot, Huxley, et al., in literary gatherings at the nearby Garsington Manor of Lady Morrell.Stead's note to p. 4 cl...moreInscribed at the head of the first page: 'To the Lady Ottoline Morrell, with the sincere regards of the author. Nov 27th 1921'. Scarce early work by the American poet and clergyman, who would later – whilst Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford – assist Eliot with the momentous decision of his conversion, baptising him in the church at Finstock. Stead was, at the time of publication, attending Queen's College – during which time he befriended Yeats and participated, like Eliot, Huxley, et al., in literary gatherings at the nearby Garsington Manor of Lady Morrell.Stead's note to p. 4 clarifies the status of Abergavenny as a renowned den of iniquity. HIDE