Japanese Garland (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: No. 116 0f 390 copies
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
From one of England's most celebrated Georgian poets comes Japanese Garland, a luminous collection of verse inspired by Edmund Blunden's time spent in Japan during the 1920s. Blunden, already acclaimed for his pastoral war poetry in Undertones of War, here turns his exquisitely sensitive eye toward the landscapes, people, and quiet ceremonies of the Far East, weaving together observations that are at once delicate, reverent, and suffused with the kind of melancholic wonder that defines his finest work. Each poem in the collection presents Japan as both a physical place and a state of the imagination — a land of lanterns, rivers, and silences that Blunden renders with the painterly precision of an Imagist and the emotional depth of a Romantic. Produced with extraordinary care by The Beaumont Press in 1928 — with cover and decorations by Eileen Mayo, a title-page by A. J. Vaughan, and typography arranged by Cyril William Beaumont — this volume is itself a work of art, a testament to the fine press tradition that valued the book as an aesthetic object. Blunden's style in Japanese Garland is restrained and lyrical, drawing on classical English prosody while absorbing subtle Eastern influences, creating a cross-cultural dialogue that remains quietly radical. For admirers of Georgian poetry, fine press printing, and the literature of encounter, this rare collection is an object of enduring fascination.
Author: Edmund Blunden
Format: Hardback
Published: 1928, The Beaumont Press
Genre: Poetry
Edition: No. 116 0f 390 copies
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
From one of England's most celebrated Georgian poets comes Japanese Garland, a luminous collection of verse inspired by Edmund Blunden's time spent in Japan during the 1920s. Blunden, already acclaimed for his pastoral war poetry in Undertones of War, here turns his exquisitely sensitive eye toward the landscapes, people, and quiet ceremonies of the Far East, weaving together observations that are at once delicate, reverent, and suffused with the kind of melancholic wonder that defines his finest work. Each poem in the collection presents Japan as both a physical place and a state of the imagination — a land of lanterns, rivers, and silences that Blunden renders with the painterly precision of an Imagist and the emotional depth of a Romantic. Produced with extraordinary care by The Beaumont Press in 1928 — with cover and decorations by Eileen Mayo, a title-page by A. J. Vaughan, and typography arranged by Cyril William Beaumont — this volume is itself a work of art, a testament to the fine press tradition that valued the book as an aesthetic object. Blunden's style in Japanese Garland is restrained and lyrical, drawing on classical English prosody while absorbing subtle Eastern influences, creating a cross-cultural dialogue that remains quietly radical. For admirers of Georgian poetry, fine press printing, and the literature of encounter, this rare collection is an object of enduring fascination.