MUSA CONSOLATRIX (1893)

London, David Nutt, 1893. 1st edition. 130 p. 8vo. Softcover in modern custom clamshell box, original wrapper binding. Covers and binding worn, spine partially gone, book block still solid, some browning. Charles Sayle (1864-1924) was at the center of the Uranian group of poets that incl. a.o. Oscar Browning, Edward Carpenter, John Gambril Nicholson and Ernest Dowson. This collection of poetry is perhaps the most overtly Uranian in tone (w. poems dedicated to Richard Barnfield and Ernest Dowson). -- from Wikipedia: Charles Edward Sayle (6 December 1864 4 July 1924) was an English Uranian poet, literary scholar and librarian. He was the youngest son of Robert Sayle, a wealthy salesman, and Priscilla Caroline Sayle. He served as an under-librarian at Cambridge University Library. His works include Bertha: a story of love (1885), Wicliff: an historical drama (1887), Erotidia (1889), Musa Consolatrix (1893), Private Music (1911) and Cambridge Fragments (1913). He also edited an anthology of verse, In Praise of Music (1897) and compiled Annals of Cambridge University Library; 1278-1900 (1916). He edited the 3-volume Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Charles Sayle's salon, a circle of bright, handsome and predominantly homosexual young men who congregated at his house in Cambridge, included Rupert Brooke, George Mallory Augustus Bartholomew and Geoffrey Keynes. Sayle's publisher was Bernard Quaritch, a bookseller who specialised in unpopular but praiseworthy scholastic publications.

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Publisher: David Nutt

Year: 1893

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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