Selected poems / by Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes
1962, 1st edition. London : Faber and Faber. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #444107
Physical description: 64 pages 19 cm. Contents: Thom Gunn: The wound. The beach head. Tamer and hawk. For a birthday. Incident on a journey. On the move. The unsettled motorcyclist's vision of his death. In praise of cities. During an absence. The corridor. Vox humana. In Santa Maria del Popolo. The annihilation of nothing, Innocence. The Byrnies. Claus von Stauffenberg. Considering the snail. "Blackie, the electric Rembrandt" My sad captains. -- Ted Hughes: Song. The thought-fox. Wind. Macaw and Little Miss. Soliloquy of a misanthrope. Six young men. The dove-breeder. The jaguar. The hag. Roarers in a ring. The horses. The martyrdom of Bishop Farrar. October dawn. Meeting. Witches. Crow Hill. Thrushes. Cleopatra to the asp. An otter. The retired colonel. November. Relic. The good life. Snowdrop. Subject: English poetry 20th century.
Price: €45.00