Public speech : poems / by Archibald MacLeish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

[Limited edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar & Rinehart, [1936]

Contents:

Pole star for this year

Speech to those who say comrade

Speech to the etractors

Speech to a crowd

The lost speakers

Poem for the time of change

The German girls! The German girls!

"Dover Beach" - a note to that poem

The sunset piece

Words to be spoken

The woman on the stair: The white poem; The absence; The treachery; The quarrel; The reconciliation; The second love; The room by the river; The remembrance; The late meeting; The release.

Notes:

"Copyright, 1936, by Archibald MacLeish."

"This edition of 'Public Speech' is limited to two hundred seventy-five signed and numbered copies, of which two hundred forty-nine are for sale."

Bound in navy blue leather over boards; red leather labels stamped in gold on cover and spine; top edge gilt and trimmed; black paper over boards slipcase; brick red and gold label on side.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 41 signed by Archibald MacLeish.

Culture Class Collection copy housed in a slipcase.

Cited in:

Mullaly, A16

OCLC:

4619552