The Poetical Works Of George Macdonald: In Two Volumes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: fine-paper edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Worn boards with minor marks and flecks. Binding slightly shaky. Markings: name on feps.
A towering figure of Victorian literature, George MacDonald was a poet, novelist, and visionary whose spiritual imagination shaped an entire generation of writers — including C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton. The Poetical Works of George MacDonald: In Two Volumes presents a comprehensive gathering of his verse, from lyrical meditations on faith and nature to powerful narrative poems that bridge the earthly and the divine. This Fine-Paper Edition, published by the distinguished London house of Chatto & Windus in 1911, stands as a landmark collection that chronicles the full arc of MacDonald's poetic achievement with elegance and scholarly care. MacDonald's verse is imbued with a rare spiritual intensity, drawing on Scottish landscapes, Christian mysticism, and a profound sense of longing for transcendence that distinguishes his work from his Victorian contemporaries. His poetry argues, with quiet but irresistible conviction, that the material world is but a shadow of a deeper, more luminous reality. Presented across two meticulously produced volumes, this edition offers readers both the breadth and depth of a poet whose influence quietly underpins much of modern fantasy and Christian literature — leaving one to wonder how such a voice could ever have been overlooked.
Author: George Macdonald
Format: Hardback
Published: 1911, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Poetry
Edition: fine-paper edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Worn boards with minor marks and flecks. Binding slightly shaky. Markings: name on feps.
A towering figure of Victorian literature, George MacDonald was a poet, novelist, and visionary whose spiritual imagination shaped an entire generation of writers — including C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton. The Poetical Works of George MacDonald: In Two Volumes presents a comprehensive gathering of his verse, from lyrical meditations on faith and nature to powerful narrative poems that bridge the earthly and the divine. This Fine-Paper Edition, published by the distinguished London house of Chatto & Windus in 1911, stands as a landmark collection that chronicles the full arc of MacDonald's poetic achievement with elegance and scholarly care. MacDonald's verse is imbued with a rare spiritual intensity, drawing on Scottish landscapes, Christian mysticism, and a profound sense of longing for transcendence that distinguishes his work from his Victorian contemporaries. His poetry argues, with quiet but irresistible conviction, that the material world is but a shadow of a deeper, more luminous reality. Presented across two meticulously produced volumes, this edition offers readers both the breadth and depth of a poet whose influence quietly underpins much of modern fantasy and Christian literature — leaving one to wonder how such a voice could ever have been overlooked.