Sonnets, 1889-1927.

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1928., 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition] ; 5 p. 1 leaf, 89 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LC: PS3535.O25; Dewey: 811.52 ; OCLC: 961414 ; LCCN: a 29-87 ; grey and blue cloth with silver and red paper label on front cover, silver lettering on spine ; no dustjacket ; a little wear to cover ; foxing ; Contents: Calvary -- Dear Friends -- The Story of the Ashes and the Flame -- Amaryllis -- Zola -- The Pity of the Leaves -- Aaron Stark -- The Garden -- Cliff Clingenhagen -- Charles Carville's Eyes -- The Dead Village -- Two Sonnets -- The Clerks -- Fleming Helphenstine -- Thomas Hood -- Horace to Leuconoe -- Reuben Bright -- The Altar -- The Tavern -- Sonnet -- George Crabbe -- Credo -- On the Night of a Friend's Wedding -- Sonnet -- Verlaine -- Sonnet -- Supremacy -- The Torrent -- L 'Envoi -- The sage -- Erasmus -- The Growth of Lorraine -- The Woman and the Wife -- Doricha -- Leffingwell -- Lingard and the Stars -- How Annandale Went Out -- Alma Mater -- Shadrach O'Leary -- Doctor of Billards -- The Sunken Crown -- For Arvia - - Another Dark Lady -- A Song at Shannon's -- Souvenir -- Discovery -- Firelight -- The New Tenants -- Inferential -- The Rat -- An Evangelist's Wife -- Demos -- Ben Trovato -- The Tree in Pamela's Garden -- Vain Gratuities -- Job the Rejected -- Lost Anchors -- Recalled -- Modernities -- Afterthoughts -- Caput Mortuum -- Monadnock Through the Trees -- The Long Race -- Many are Called -- Haunted House -- The Sheaves -- Karma -- Maya -- As It Looked Then -- SIlver Street -- A Man in Our Town -- En Passant - Not Always -- Why Was He There -- Glass Houses -- The Laggards -- New England -- If the Lord Would Make Windows in Heaven -- Battle After War -- The Garden of the Nations -- Reunion -- A Christmas Sonnet ; "During the last decade of Robinson's life, he published two books very different from his annual blank verse narratives. In 1928, Macmillan brought out Sonnets, 1889-1927, a collection of eighty-nine sonnets that demonstrated the poet's supple mastery. In subject matter, [he] departed from the sonnet's customary concentration on love, instead exploring the lives of other people, or, in the later sonnets, a social, political or religious issue. Within the narrow confines of the form, he could create an entire drama in miniature."--Scott Donaldson ; G.