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LOWELL, ROBERT. 1917-1977. Land of Unlikeness. Poems. [Cummington, MA]: Cummington Press, 1944.
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LOWELL, ROBERT. 1917-1977.
Land of Unlikeness. Poems. [Cummington, MA]: Cummington Press, 1944.
Introduction by Allen Tate. Woodcut printed in blue on title by Gustav Wolf. Original blue boards lettered in red; fragment of glassine. Custom clamshell box. Fading to spine and to top edge of lower cover, upper cover very slightly bowed.
Provenance: Swann Galleries, Oct 24, 2002, lot 342.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, OF THE POET'S FIRST BOOK, no 6 of 26 copies on Dacian paper from a total of 250, SIGNED by Lowell.
"The history of poetry shows that good verse does not inevitably make its way; but unless, after the war, the small public for poetry shall exclude all except the democratic poets who enthusiastically greet the advent of the slave-society, Robert Lowell will have to be reckoned with ... spiritual decay is not universal, and in a young man like Lowell, whether we like his Catholicism or not, there is at least a memory of the spiritual dignity of man, now sacrificed to mere secularization and a craving for mechanical order" (Tate's introduction).
Introduction by Allen Tate. Woodcut printed in blue on title by Gustav Wolf. Original blue boards lettered in red; fragment of glassine. Custom clamshell box. Fading to spine and to top edge of lower cover, upper cover very slightly bowed.
Provenance: Swann Galleries, Oct 24, 2002, lot 342.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, OF THE POET'S FIRST BOOK, no 6 of 26 copies on Dacian paper from a total of 250, SIGNED by Lowell.
"The history of poetry shows that good verse does not inevitably make its way; but unless, after the war, the small public for poetry shall exclude all except the democratic poets who enthusiastically greet the advent of the slave-society, Robert Lowell will have to be reckoned with ... spiritual decay is not universal, and in a young man like Lowell, whether we like his Catholicism or not, there is at least a memory of the spiritual dignity of man, now sacrificed to mere secularization and a craving for mechanical order" (Tate's introduction).

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