15 Poems for William Shakespeare. With an Introduction by Patrick Garland, John Lehmann and William Plomer.

FIRST EDITION, corrigendum slip to Snodgrass poem, faint spot at head of last page, pp.[v], 18, 8vo, original sewn pale-grey wrappers, typographic border to front printed in teal, a couple of very faint spots to left-margin of front, minor creasing at extremities, very good. Poems commissioned by the Arts Council, as part of the celebration of the fourth centenary of Shakespeare's birth, from fifteen anglophone poets: Edmund Blunden, Charles Causley, Roy Fuller, Thom Gunn, Randall Jarell, Thomas Kinsella, Laurie Lee, Hugh MacDiarmid, Dom Moraes, Peter Porter, W.J. Snodgrass, Stephen Spender, Derek Walcott, Vernon Watkins and David Wright.