Accession number
PML 197731
Creator
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965, compiler, translator.
Published
Paris : Pierre Seghers, 1946 [i.e. 1947]
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund for Poetry, 2017.
Notes
"Achevé d'imprimer sur les presses des Imprimeries Bellenand à Fontenay-aux-Roses le 10 janvier 1947"--Colophon.
Dated on wrappers (and printed) 1947; dated 1946 on title page.
Dated on wrappers (and printed) 1947; dated 1946 on title page.
Description
xix, 69, [4] pages : portraits ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on page [ii]: And it was you, dear Bertram who greatly fathered the publication of the predecessor in 1944. Nancy / France / 1956.
Provenance
Bertram Rota.
Summary
Bilingual anthology of twenty poems, selected and translated by Cunard from her anthology Poems for France, written by British poets on France since the War (London: La France Libre, 1944). With poetry by Valentine Ackland -- C.A. Alington -- Jack Beeching -- Arnold Vincent Bowen -- Richard Church -- Alex Comfort -- Nancy Cunard -- Lord Dunsany -- John Gawsworth -- Robert Greacen -- George Rostrevor Hamilton -- Rayner Heppenstall -- Hugh MacDiarmid -- Cecily Mackworth -- John Manifold -- Geoffrey Matthews -- Ewart Milne -- Dion Reilly -- John Short -- Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Binding
Yellow wrappers, printed in black and red.
Classification
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