Laughter out of the ground; a novel in cadence / by Robin Lampson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lampson, Robin, 1900-1978.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California--Gold discoveries--Poetry.

California.

Gold mines and mining.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Lampson, Robin, 1900- (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 344 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, [publisher not identified], Charles Scribner's Sons. MCMXXXV [1935]

Contents:

Prolog. More music than gold

Part One. The frank face of the bridegroom

Part Two. He learns the earth's curve

Part Three. A shining in the bottom of the ditch

Part Four. What news from the hills?

Part Five. After the prickings and half-hurst

Part Six. No proxy

Part Seven. Through any incredible hour.

Notes:

With half-ttle.

"Copyright, 1935, by Charles Scribner's Sons."

"B"

"This story is not necessarily to be thought of as a long poem, but as a novel to be read with emphasized cadence, preferably aloud ... I believe a good story told in cadence is a framework that will support, and build up toward, many fine lyrical and dramatic poems of an accumulated intensity not easily obtainable in a short, unattached lyric ..."--Author's Note.

Black cloth boards with gold panels on front cover and spine lettered in black.

"Concerning sources": pages [341]-344.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "To Burton Rascoe in appreciation of the inspiration of his 'Titans of Literature,' with the compliments & best regards of the author - Robin Lampson. Berkeley, 24 July 1937. 'This air is not animate with ghosts, The soil is not bitterly hallowed by history' (p. 281)".

OCLC:

2622154