Poems

CASSON (Edmund)

Verlag: London/New York: Frederick Warne, 1938

Beschreibung

Some light spotting, but a nice copy. Ownership signature of G.E. Hudson; loosely inserted an autograph letter signed to him from the author, 2pp. 8vo, Newton-le-Willows, 17 August 1927. Thomas Edmund Casson (1883-1960) was a Lake District poet born in Pennington, near Ulverston, the son of Thomas Casson, grocer and subpostmaster. From Trent College he won an exhibition to Merton College, Oxford, in 1902, publishing his first book, A Ballad of Urswick Tarn (by his own account, though it appears in no obvious library), with the local printer in Ulverston in 1905. A play, The Wise Kings of Borrowdale, emerged from Keswick in 1914 and in the same year, from Erskine Macdonald in London, Masques and Poems. Erskine Macdonald reissued The Wise Kings "as presented in the garden of Greta Hall by members of Keswick School, June, 1914" in 1927 - the year the author wrote to G.E. Hudson (sometime of Keswick School?) enclosing (no longer) A Century of Roundels: for the centenary of the Oxford and Cambridge cricket match. "Dear Mr. Hudson," Casson writes. "As to one with whom I have studied both cricket and verse, I venture to send my latest book of verse" - the centenary seemed to call for "Pindaric laudation". "Do you not approve of my idea of Delphi as the centre of the earth for the League of Nations, and of Greek as the universal language in place of Esperanto? What a paradise for classical schoolmasters!" Poems collects many of Edmund Casson's occasional poems, alongside The Wise Kings of Borrowdale, "A Carol of the Skiddaw Shepherds" (set to music by Ivor Gurney as Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes, 1920, the publishers Boosey misattributing the words to Ernest Casson) and "Lord Derwentwater's Fate" (from Lord Derwentwater's Fate and other poems, Kendal, 1930). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers T100131

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Poems

Verlag: London/New York: Frederick Warne

Erscheinungsdatum: 1938

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition