Anglo-Saxon Poetry.

Bone (Gavin)

Anglo-Saxon Poetry.

An Essay with Specimen Translations in Verse.

Description: FIRST EDITION, a few spots to prelims, pp. 79, crown 8vo, original cream boards with a lattice design in blind to both boards, backstrip lettered in black, a little soiled and marked, a touch of rubbing, top edge dusty, others untrimmed, endpapers spotted, good

Publication Details: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1943

Notes: Inscribed on the flyleaf: 'To Mai & Francis, With love from Gertrude & Muirhead [Bone]' - the parents of the translator of this volume, notable in their own right as an author and an artist respectively; their son died from tuberculosis in 1942.Gavin Bone was a fellow and tutor at St. John's College, Oxford, where he taught Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis. In his Introduction and notes he engages with the work of Ezra Pound (calling his translations 'not neat at all, but good' – but refers rather more dismissively to T.S. Eliot, as 'an American critic' (p. 73).Laid in is a sheet of typed n...moreInscribed on the flyleaf: 'To Mai & Francis, With love from Gertrude & Muirhead [Bone]' - the parents of the translator of this volume, notable in their own right as an author and an artist respectively; their son died from tuberculosis in 1942.Gavin Bone was a fellow and tutor at St. John's College, Oxford, where he taught Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis. In his Introduction and notes he engages with the work of Ezra Pound (calling his translations 'not neat at all, but good' – but refers rather more dismissively to T.S. Eliot, as 'an American critic' (p. 73).Laid in is a sheet of typed notes (a few manuscript corrections) on Elizabethan poetry, of uncertain origin. HIDE

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