Alexandrins Poem Typed Manuscript Signed Tmss Twelve Lines On Full Sheet Of Letter Size Paper
$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey
A translation into French of Smith's own 'Alexandrines,' both consisting of three quatrains in the Alexandrine meter, a six-beat iambic line that originated in French romances about Alexander the Great perhaps in tribute to the hexameter of classical epics . The classicism of the form stands in contrast to the romantic melancholia of its content. - Robert Eldridge. Sidney-Fryer, Donald. Emperor of Dreams: a Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography, p. 105 p. 34 for the
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