Emily Dickinson
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with lettering and decoration to front board in gilt. Now protected by acetate cover.
Fifteen poems with contributions from Edmund Blunden, Charles Causley, High MacDiarmid, Roy Fuller, Dom Moraes, Stephen Spender, Thom Gunn, W. D. Snodgrass, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Kinsella, Laurie Lee, Peter Porter, David Wright and Vernon Watkins.
Complete with Corrigrenda tipped in. With an Introduction by Patrick Garland, John Lehmann and William Plomer.
A book in Near Fine Condition.
AUTHOR Various
DATE 1964
PUBLISHER The Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace
CONDITION Near Fine / Fine
PAGES 24
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