Poets Tomorrow First Second Third (1 results)
More imagesPoets of Tomorrow. First, Second and Third Selection
Various [Ruthven TODD, Terence TILLER, Laurie LEE, David GASCOYNE], [Seamus Heaney association]
Published by London: The Hogarth Press, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1942
- First Edition
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Add to basketFirst Edition. [Verse] FIRST EDITION, first impressions. Three volumes. A significant trio, formerly the property of Seamus Heaney's English teacher, poet W.J. Harvey (ink ownership to each vol.). Octavo (22 x 15cm). Publisher's hardcovers in dust-jackets. Some dustiness and handling, loss to jacket spine of third series. From t…he library of Northern Irish poet Professor William John Harvey (1925-1967). Harvey, a prominent academic, writer, Wordsworth and George Eliot scholar, and Chair of English at Queen's University, Belfast, taught future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who graduated with a First Class Honours. The personal copy of a man who helped shape one of the world's greatest and beloved poets. In recognition, Heaney published a posthumous collection of Harvey's poems (Carcanet Press, 1973) contributing a foreword in which he acknowledges the support and influence of John Harvey.
