Poems.

Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to front cover, printed endpapers, 107 pp. Inscribed by author, "W.A. Durward, Presented by his Dear Brother B.I. Durward, March - 1883." W.A.'s ownership inscription on leaf prior. Front endpaper & first leaf detached, edgewear to book. Bernard Durward brought his family to Wisconsin in 1845, lived at Neosho, Milwaukee, and finally at Durward's Glen, his rural retreat near Merrimac. He early established himself as a portrait painter of notable Milwaukee figures. His paintings, especially the monochrome "Crucifixion," the "St. Francis de Sales," the "Bishop Henni," and later pictures of fruit and flowers show decided attention to texture and composition. Following his conversion to Catholicism in 1851, he was the first teacher of English at St. Francis Seminary. Durward edited the unique Milwaukee Catholic Magazine (1875), published an early volume of poetry, Wild Flowers of Wisconsin (1872), Poems (1882), and Cristofero Colombo (1887), all of which show lyric and imaginative ability. P. Butts, Art in Wis. (Madison, 1936); M. T. Durward, ed., Durward's Glen [Madison, 1938]; B. I. Durward, Poems . . . (Baraboo, [1917]); P. L. Johnson, Crosier on the Frontier (Madison, 1959) [Wisconsinhistory.org]

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Publisher: by author

Year: 1882

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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