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ELIOT, T.S.

The Sacred Wood

essays on poetry and criticism

Stock Code
106380
LondonMethuen & Co. Ltd.1920
£2,225

First edition of Eliot's landmark collection of twenty essays on literary authors, in which he opines on literary works and authors, including Shakespeare's Hamlet and the poets Dante and Blake.

This work contains one of Eliot's most important prose works, 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' (originally published in two parts in The Egoist), and the essay 'Philip Massinger' includes the famous (but often misquoted!) line 'Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal'.

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Description

First edition, first state (without advertisements and with lettering of 'METHUEN' at foot of spine measuring 3 mm), signed by the author on the title-page, 8vo (176 x 113 mm, 7 x 4½ in), endpapers slightly toned, publisher's blue cloth, slightly bumped at extremities, second state dust-jacket (with sub-title to upper panel and 'Books by A. Clutton-Brock' to lower panel), spine lightly browned, spine ends and corners chipped, a very few short tears, light creasing to head, small ink stain to inside flap.

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