A Survey of Modernist Poetry

A second impression of Laura Riding and Roberts Graves' authoritative study of modern poetry, with the very scarce dust wrapper. The second impression.With the publisher's very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.A survey of the works of T. S. Eliot, Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell and other modernist poets, by Laura Riding and Robert Graves,This collaborative work, which has been argued to be the seed of the New Criticism movement, aims to show what standards these poets set themselves, and to what extent they justify their theories.American poet and critic Laura Riding moved in with English poet Robert Graves at his invitation, where she lived for a few years with him and his wife, before the marriage ended and the two moved across Europe as a pair. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, with damp stains to the boards and rubbing to the extremities. Dust wrapper is sunned to the spine, with edge wear and chipping to the spine head. Marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with occasional scattered spots throughout. Very Good.…