Points of View.

£250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The copy of Eddie Marsh, with quite extensive manuscript notes to several of the essays. They show a balanced judgment on Eliot, ranging from enthusastic agreement to hostile scorn, especially on any grammatical or stylistic lapses. The most extensively annotated essay is ‘Tradition and the individual talent’: he approves of Eliot’s point that the “existing order” of works of art is altered and it is no surprise that “the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past”. A fascinating copy, demonstrating a close critical reading of two of the early 20th Century’s arbiters of poetical taste.

• Year: 1941

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