This Dark Will Lighten: Selected Poems 1923-41

Some foxing to book. Some foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket separated into two pieves along spine. Tears and chips to dust-jacket spine.; [x], xxxvii, [2] pages. Grey printed covers with grey dust-jacket. Black and blue lettering on front cover. Black lettering and blue lightning bolt on front panel of dust-jacket. Page dimensions: 212 x 139mm. New Zealand poet. Poetry. "Shakespeare Milton Keats are dead / Donne lies in a lowly bed [. . .] Housman neither knows nor cares / how 'this heavy world' now fares [. . .] They are gone and I am here / stoutly bringing up the rear // Where they went with limber ease / toil I on with bloody knees // Though my voice is cracked and harsh / stoutly in the rear I march [. . .]" - from the poem "Song of Allegiance", page xv. ; 8vo

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Publisher: The Caxton Press

Year: 1941

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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