The Collected Poems of Frank Prewett ( Poetry / Poet )( Intro by Robert Graves )( includes selections from: Poems[ 1920 ]; A Rural Scene [ 1924 ], plus 38 previously unpublished poems / Three Broadcast Talks [ 1954 ]Farm Life in Ontario Fifty Years Ago )

Prewett, Frank (poet); Introduction By Robert Graves

Published by London, UK: Cassell, 1964, 1st Edition, First Printing, London, England, 1964

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----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Near Fine example, a bit of age toning to paper, small ink name and 1966 date ( Orest Rudzik who was an academic at the University of Toronto, an active force in Canadian poetry circles who later became a lawyer ), small star stamp on rear blank endpaper, small spot on front blank endpaper, --- in a rubbed and lightly scuffed Good to Very Good price clipped dustjacket, some small flakes, nicks and a very short tear, jacket is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, , 63 pages, b&w photo ( frontispiece), collects 44 poems as well as "Farm Life in Ontario Fifty Years Ago: Three Broadcast talks (from 1964 ), -- Frank 'Toronto' Prewett was a Canadian poet. Born near Mount Forest, Ontario in 1893 probably of part-Iroquois stock, he was raised in Toronto and left in 1915 to fight in the First World War. Wounded and shell shocked, he met Siegfried Sassoon [wh] introduced him to a whole host of writers and encouraged Prewett to become a poet. In post-war England, prewett became the toast of the British literati and was known and feted by Lady Ottoline Morrell, W B Yeats, Thomas Hardy, T S Eliot, Robert graves, Edmund Blunden, Virginia and Leaonard Woolf and Aldous Huxley. He died in 1962 after a career as a broadcaster, editor and teacher, virtually unknown in his native land.---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 6w x 8.75 Inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Poems of Frank Prewett ( Poetry / Poet )( Intro by Robert Graves )( includes selections from: Poems[ 1920 ]; A Rural Scene [ 1924 ], plus 38 previously unpublished poems / Three Broadcast Talks [ 1954 ]Farm Life in Ontario Fifty Years Ago )
• Publisher: London, UK: Cassell, 1964, 1st Edition, First Printing, London, England
• Publication Date: 1964
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Edward Ripley Cover Design
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Not Signed
• Book Type: Price Clipped Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Literature Fiction