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London: The Bodley Head, 1950. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.64. Publisher's cream cloth with black and red leaf patterning over front and back boards lettered in black to spine, white dust-wrapper with the same black and red leaf colouring as the binding with printed price of 7s 6d to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling and toning to spine, toning to dust-wrapper spine. Near fine. Archibald MacLeish was an American writer and poet who fought in World War I. MacLeish believed that the end of the war marked the beginning of the new world and much of his earlier work focused around understanding the changing world around him. The elegiac poem Actfive explores the challenges MacLeish was facing after the loss of the opportunity of peace due to World War II. In this collection Actfive is placed alongside some twenty shorter pieces.
ACTFIVE; and other poems by MACLEISH, Archibald - 1948
by MACLEISH, Archibald
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ACTFIVE; and other poems
by MACLEISH, Archibald
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NY: Random House, 1948. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 63. A fine copy in little chipped and faded dj. Mullaly A334.
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- Date Published 1948