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W.H. AUDEN - POEMS
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Poems, accepted for publication by T.S. Eliot at Faber & Faber in 1930, established Auden’s reputation at the young age of twenty-three. Included in Auden’s landmark volume is the dramatic sketch “Paid on Both Sides: A Charade” dedicated to Cecil-Day Lewis as well as thirty shorter poems drawing on a breadth of material including the Icelandic sagas, Old English poetry, the works of Marx and Freud, and public-school life. Many of the poems first appeared two years earlier in a pamphlet (also entitled Poems) privately printed in a small number of copies (estimated to be about 30) that were handset by his friend Stephen Spender at the end of Auden’s third year at Oxford.
This copy also with a neat presentation inscription (dated 1932) from Auden's friend Richard "Dick" Crossman on the half-title and with a rare original Faber and Faber ad slip for Poems laid in.
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