APHRODITE’S GARLAND *PRESENTATION COPY TO GEORGE EVERY, SOCIETY OF THE SACRED MISSION* FIVE ANCIENT LOVE POEMS
Book Description
Presentation Copy from Heath-Stubbs to Brother George Every, Society of the Sacred Mission, Christmas 1951.
8vo, 19 x 13cm
Light wear to wraps, some brown marking.
Text with a correction by the author (see photo).
No 2 of the Crescendo Poetry Series.
Printed at the Private Press of Guido Morris.
Dealer Notes
George Every (1909-2003) British Historian, Theologian, Writer on Christian Mythology, and Poet. Member of the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham from 1929 where he met and became a friend of T.S Eliot and introduced him to the History of Little Gidding, later to be the title for one of Eliot’s Four Quartets.
John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006) Poet.
He suffered with problems with his eyesight from the age of 3 and became completely blind before his 60th birthday.
John could be found in many of Soho’s notorious drinking-holes in the 1950’s and 1960’s, his own basement flat in west London was a model of bohemian squalor.
John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006) Poet.
He suffered with problems with his eyesight from the age of 3 and became completely blind before his 60th birthday.
John could be found in many of Soho’s notorious drinking-holes in the 1950’s and 1960’s, his own basement flat in west London was a model of bohemian squalor.
Author
Heath-Stubbs, John
Date
1951
Binding
Printed Paper
Publisher
The Latin Press, Saint Ives, Private Press of Guido Morris
Illustrator
-
Condition
Very Good
Pages
p19-30
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