More poems / A. E. Housman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936, author.

Contributor:

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956, book designer, typographer.

Plimpton Press, compositor.

Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., printer, binder.

P.H. Glatfelter Co., papermaker.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Genre:

Lask Poetry Collection.

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Curran, Stuart A. (former owner)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[2], xiii, [1], 73, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Camden, N.J. : Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1936.

Contents:

If in that Syrian garden, ages slain

When Israel out of Egypt came

For these of old the trader

O youth whose heart is right

The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws

I to my perils of cheat and charmer

Stars, I have seen them fall

Give me a land of boughs in leaf

When green buds hang in the elm like dust

The weeping Pleiads wester

The rainy Pleiads wester

I promise nothing: friends will part

I lay me down and slumber

The farms of home lie lost in even

Tarry, delight, so seldom met

How clear, how lovely bright

Bells in tower at evening toll

Delight it is in youth and May

The mill-stream, now that noises cease

Like mine, the veins of these that slumber

The world goes none the lamer

Ho, everyone that thirsteth

Crossing alone the nighted ferry

Stone, steel and kingdoms pass

Yon fire that frets the eastern sky

Good creatures, do you love your lives

To stand up straight, and tread the turning mill

He, standing hushed, a pace or two apart

From the wash the laundress sends

Shake hands, we shall never be friends, all's over

Because I liked you better

With seed the sowers scatter

On forelands high in heaven

Young is the blood that yonder

Half-way, for one commandment broken

Here dead lie we because we did not choose

I did not lose my heart in summer's even

By shores and woods and steeples

My dreams are of a field afar

Farewell to a name and a number

He looked at me with eyes I thought

When he's returned, I'll tell him-oh

I wake from dreams and turning

Far known to sea and shore

Smooth between sea and land

Sons of landsmen, sons of seamen, hear the tale of grief and me

O thou that from thy mansion

Good night. Ensured release

Alternative readings

Dated poems.

Notes:

Contains half-title.

Preface (pages v-x) by Laurence Housman.

Copyright 1936 by Barclays Bank Ltd.

"Composed by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. It was printed and bound by The Haddon Craftsmen, Camden, New Jersey. The paper was made by P.H. Glatfelter Co., Spring Grove, Pa. The typography and design are by W. A. Dwiggins"--Colophon.

Contains "Alternative Readings" (page 71) and "Dated Poems" (pages 72-73).

Blue cloth boards with lettering and decoration in gilt.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Stuart A. Curran.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean- François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

OCLC:

3305712