February Poem Typed Manuscript Signed Tmss Sixteen Lines On Half Sheet Of Letter Size Paper Ribbon

by Clark Ashton Smith

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

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Four quatrains of iambic trimeter but with a doubled six-beat line in the final position. The poem tries to capture the betwixt-and-between mood of February, too late for winter, too early for spring, a fitting image for a fragile love affair. - Robert Eldridge. Sidney-Fryer, Donald. Emperor of Dreams: a Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography, p. 52, giving its length as 20 lines in Klarkash-Ton and Monstro Ligriv, making this a variant text. Old fold crease,

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