The Poet’s Tongue. An Anthology chosen

by … by W. H. Auden, John Garrett

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First edition

First edition. xxxiv, 2 , 222, 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth, t.e.g. Fine in near fine dust jacket minor soiling, tiny scuff at head of spine panel . Item #366960 “Poetry is no better and no worse than human nature; it is profound and shallow, sophisticated and naïve, dull and witty, bawdy and chaste in turn” from the introduction .Rich anthology of Anglo-American verse compiled by

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