BARING, Maurice.

£450 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Poems: 1914-1919. Signed limited edition, number 16 of 100 copies signed by the author and printed on Japon paper. This copy contains the contemporary ownership inscription of Rowland Thomas Baring, the second Earl of Cromer and Maurice Baring's cousin, on the front free endpaper. The author's experience during the war inspired this collection of verse, which was first published in 1919.Baring laments the death of his friend Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, in the Pindaric "In Memorium A. H.", which debuted in this collection. T. E. Lawrence commended Baring: "if ever a death poem has been good, it is yours. It takes me, each time I read it, absolutely by the throat... so simply sincere, and grievous, and splendid. I think Lucas will live, thanks to you, for as long as your language. You have the gift, the great gift" (Storrs).

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