A Psalm of Deaths and Other Poems / by S. Weir Mitchell, M. D. LL. D. Harv. author of "The Hill of Stones and Other Poems" "A Masque and Other Poems" "The Cup of Youth" etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Grief.

Penn Provenance:

Johnson, Sarah A. (donor)

Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 (bookplate) (previous owner)

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 (honoree)

Physical Description:

[8], 70, [2] pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

S. Weir Mitchell Correction Copy

Manufacture:

Cambridge : The Riverside Press,

Other Title:

Master François Villon, and Other Poems.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.

Contents:

A Psalm of Deaths. Of One Who Fell Upon the Way; Of Those Remembered; Of One Dead; Painted unto Death; The Whole Creation Groaneth; In the Valley of the Shadow; A Canticle of Time

Master François Villon, and Other Poems. Master François Villon; How the Poet for an Hour was King; A Psalm of the Waters; Coleridge at Chamouny; Dominique de Gourgues; The Waves at Midnight; September; Beaver Tail Rocks; October; You and I; Tennyson; The Carry; Of a Poet.

Notes:

Dedicated to James Russell Lowell.

"Notes": page 70.

Quarter white cloth with blue-gray paper over boards; printed paper label at top of spine with 1890 written in ms. beneath. Outer edge of pages stained.

Local Notes:

PS2414.P7 1890a: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Sarah A. Johnson 2019 has poem by Herman C. Merivale entitled "The Monologue of Death" affixed to front pastedown. has bookplate of Weir Mitchell laid in, has poem "Bonne Nuit" written in ms. laid in and has numerous pencilled corrections and ms. annotations on endpapers. Copy has handwritten letter dated 21 Jan. 1891 from James Russell Lowell attached to preliminary page [1].

OCLC:

9259943