Poetry. Edited by Richard Owens. First published by Faber & Faber in 1930, THE ECLIPTIC is a lost modernist classic. Complex in structure, rich in music, it was hailed by Morton Dauwen Zabel in Poetry as a new "Dawn in Britain." Basil Bunting declared, " The Ecliptic interested me more than any new thing since The Waste Land ..." Richard Owens explains in his afterword to this edition: "The poem offers the narrative of a single consciousness in twelve parts, each of which corresponds to one of twelve constellations in the ...
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Poetry. Edited by Richard Owens. First published by Faber & Faber in 1930, THE ECLIPTIC is a lost modernist classic. Complex in structure, rich in music, it was hailed by Morton Dauwen Zabel in Poetry as a new "Dawn in Britain." Basil Bunting declared, " The Ecliptic interested me more than any new thing since The Waste Land ..." Richard Owens explains in his afterword to this edition: "The poem offers the narrative of a single consciousness in twelve parts, each of which corresponds to one of twelve constellations in the Western zodiac. It begins with Aries and closes with Pisces, moving from birth to death, with each section conveying a mood or quality specific to its phase of life and corresponding astrological sign."
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Good. First edition. Unprinted wrappers with integral dust jacket. Owner name on upper jacket flap. Spine cocked and tanned with author name and title penciled in, wrappers toned and partially separated at the spine with loss at the corners and spine ends, a good or better copy of a somewhat delicate volume of poems, the author's first book. The text is fine.
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Very Good. First edition. Unprinted wrappers with integral dust jacket. Jacket tanned at the spine and edges with small splits, chips and tears, a very good copy of a somewhat delicate volume of poems, the author's first book. The text is fine. Poet Samuel French Morse's copy with his owner signature inside the front cover. The author's first book.
