Essays by divers hands : being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, new series. New series, v.27 / edited by Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton
London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1955. First Edition. Inscribed by Willard Connely to his daughter. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages; Contents: Introduction / Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton -- Sir Edward Marsh's translation of "Dominique" / Monk Gibbon -- Towards a redefinition of humanism / B. Ifor Evans -- George Eliot: a moralizing fabulist / Kate O'Brien -- Margaret Fuller - American critic / Willard Connely -- The young Rudyard Kipling / The Earl of Birkenhead -- Nature and grace in "Macbeth" / Robert Speaight -- The Prince Regent and the poets / Dorothy Margaret Stuart -- History and the writer / Hugh Ross Williamson -- Shakespeare and soldiering / Major the Earl Wavell. xi, 151 p. ; 21cm. Item #223291
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