The Terrible Rain. The War Poets 1939-45
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Book Description
First Edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pink topstain. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. xxvi, 228 [2]. A book in Very Good condition in a Very Good dust-jacket, with some chipping to head of spine and soiling to rear panel, but which is not price-clipped (showing ‘price 30s net’). A fascinating book.
An anthology of poets writing during the Second World War including W. H. Auden, William Plomer, George Barker, Louis MacNeice, Alun Lewis, Charles Causeley, C. Day Lewis, Denton Welch, Dylan Thomas, Julian Symons, Laurie Lee, David Gascoyne, Jocelyn Brooke, Alan Ross, Roy Campbell, Robert Conquest, Stephen Spender and others. Also poems by others not normally associated with the genre, including D. Van den Bogaerde (Dirk Bogarde), Enoch Powell, Christopher Hassall and others. Epilogue by Edith Sitwell.
Author
Gardner, Brian
Date
1966
Binding
Hardback
Publisher
Methuen & Co. Ltd, London
Condition
Very Good / Very Good
Pages
228
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