Poetry at Present.

Williams (Charles)

Poetry at Present.

Description: FIRST EDITION, the paperstock to prelims faintly creased at top corner, pp. xii, 216, foolscap 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, blind-stamped border to both boards, the upper with device stamped in gilt, the cloth very faintly musty and a trifle rubbed at extremities, a small square in black marker to top corner of flyleaf, dustjacket rather chipped, a little dustsoiled with a browned backstrip panel, good

Publication Details: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1930

Notes: His first published book of literary criticism, a guide to modern poetry running from Hardy, Bridges, Housman and Kipling, through the Georgians to Eliot and the Sitwells; Williams includes at the close of each essay an 'End Piece' in which he pastiches the respective poets' work.

Bibliography: (Glenn 1-A-iv-1)