Courcelette and Other Poems

Original brown cloth with pastedown title. Gift inscription in front. A heart-rending biographical note introduces the poetry. Manning was born and reared in Saint John, where he worked briefly in Public Works before leaving for university to study dentistry. When war broke out a year later, he entered active service, where he was injured at Vimy Ridge and invalided home. Back in the fray at Lens, he was first buried alive and then suffered the loss of his left hand, which forced him to give up dentistry. Returning to university - Acadia this time - he received his B.A. after one year. Following further study at Harvard in town-planning and landscape-gardening, he took a position in Chicago for a year, but then abruptly moved to New York City as an engineer for Standard Oil. Posted to Maracaibo and then Maturin, he contracted malaria and died in 1924, at the age of 27. Following the poems is a tragedy, "What Is Truth". 106 pp.

Product Info

Publisher: J. & A. McMillan, Ltd.

Year: 1925

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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