{"product_id":"secondhand-poetry-drama-bargain-book-box-sp4155","title":"Secondhand Poetry \u0026 Drama Bargain Book Box SP4155","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Poetry \u0026amp; Drama Bargain Book Box SP4155\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty volumes of poetry and plays, with six Shaws and Eliots in the original Penguin and Faber editions, Four Quartets in the Faber boxed edition, Dante’s Paradise, Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, Burns, Roger Fry’s Poems 1968–1969, Flecker’s Hassan, Spike Milligan’s Small Dreams of a Scorpion, Wendell Berry’s Window Poems, two Australian poets and Kenneth Grahame’s First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows. A reader’s shelf with some scarce things on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Quartets — T.S. Eliot — Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding: Eliot’s last and greatest poem, on time, memory and the fire and the rose. The Faber slipcased hardback with the blue label.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoems 1968–1969 — Roger Fry — A privately printed collection in plain wrappers. Scarce.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Divine Comedy 3: Paradise — Dante — Dante climbs through the spheres of heaven with Beatrice to the vision of God. Dorothy L. Sayers died before finishing it; Barbara Reynolds completed the translation. Penguin Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHassan — James Elroy Flecker — The confectioner of Baghdad, the Caliph, the golden road to Samarkand. Flecker’s verse play, published after his death, with Delius’s music written for it. Hardback with jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDylan Thomas: Selected Poems — ed. Walford Davies — Fern Hill, Do Not Go Gentle, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, the Refusal to Mourn. The best short selection, with Davies’s notes. Hardback with jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst Whisper of The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame — The bedtime stories and letters to his son Alastair that became the book, published by his widow in 1944 with her introduction. Methuen hardback; a collector’s piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Burns — The Penguin Poets selection: Tam o’ Shanter, To a Mouse, Holy Willie’s Prayer, and the songs. 1946 edition with the blue-grey cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eT.S. Eliot: Selected Poems — Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash-Wednesday. The 1948 Penguin, one shilling and sixpence, in the blue poetry stripe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose — The Windhover, Pied Beauty, the terrible sonnets, and the journals and letters that explain them. Penguin Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Plays for Puritans — Bernard Shaw — The Devil’s Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound’s Conversion. Early Shaw, with the preface explaining why he wrote them. Orange Penguin, 1\/6.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Cocktail Party — T.S. Eliot — A drawing-room comedy that turns into a play about sainthood and martyrdom halfway through, with the Unidentified Guest who turns out to be a psychiatrist. Faber paper-covered edition, with Alec Guinness on the cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMajor Barbara: A Screen Version — Bernard Shaw — The Salvation Army major, her arms-dealer father, and the question of whose money is clean. Shaw’s own screenplay for the 1941 film with Wendy Hiller. Orange Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack to Methuselah — Bernard Shaw — Five plays in one, from the Garden of Eden to the year 31,920, on creative evolution and why people should live three hundred years. Shaw’s most ambitious and least performed. Orange Penguin, 2\/-.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWindow Poems — Wendell Berry — Twenty-seven poems written at a window looking out on the Kentucky River, with wood engravings by Wesley Bates. The Kentucky farmer-poet at his most contemplative. Hardback.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmall Dreams of a Scorpion — Spike Milligan — Milligan’s serious poems, on depression, the war, and his children, with his own drawings. The one that surprises people who only know the Goons. Hardback with jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew and Selected Poems — Philip Martin — The Melbourne poet’s selection, with the lighthouse cover. Martin taught at Monash and was a Shakespearean; the sonnets are the best of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLysistrata of Aristophanes — trans. Dudley Fitts — The women of Athens and Sparta refuse sex until the men stop the war. A rollicking excursion into impropriety, says the cover. Faber paper-covered edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinter Driving — Jennifer Strauss — Poems by the Melbourne poet and academic, published by Sisters. Strauss edited Judith Wright; her own poems are quieter and exact.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlays Unpleasant — Bernard Shaw — Widowers’ Houses, The Philanderer, Mrs Warren’s Profession: the three Shaw wrote to make audiences uncomfortable about slum landlords and prostitution. Orange Penguin, 1\/6.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50975445778651,"sku":"SP4155","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4155.jpg?v=1793248963","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-poetry-drama-bargain-book-box-sp4155","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}