A Selection of Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne by Treece, Henry (Editor) - 1948

London & Glasgow: The Gray Wall Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean bright copy. ; First non-illustrated (Illustrated version printed by Dodd Mead, 1928). Edited and introduced by Henry Treece. A lovely book, shelf wear on all extremities, with lavender & blue boards stamped in gold design and black lettering in the matching dust jacket. The single word 'love' is written neatly on the fep. The dust jacket retains the original price of 3s6d, and has minor edge chipping. Now in an archival cover. A Beautiful collection of poems whose mastery of vocabulary, rhyme and meter Swinburne among the most talented English language poets in history. Although many of his contemporaries would argue the point, T. S.. Eliot considered his florid word choices the tumultuous outcry of adjectives, the headstrong rush of undisciplined sentences, are the index to the impatience and perhaps laziness of a disorderly mind. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .