Author: TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON, BARON (1809-1892)
Title: Tiresias and other poems
Description: London : Macmillan and Co. 1885. First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Small edge tear towards top of spine. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 203 pages; Physical description: viii. 203p. ; 18cm. Subjects: Tiresias (Greek mythology) -- English poetry -- English literature -- 19th century. Contents: To E. Fitzgerald.- Tiresias.- The wreck.- Despair.- The ancient sage.- The flight.- Tomorrow.- The spinster's sweet-arts.- Balin and Balan.-Prologue.- The charge of the heavy brigade at Balaclava.- Epilogue.- To Virgil.- The dead prophet.- Early spring.- Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets.- 'Frater Ave atque Vale.'- Helen's tower.- Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.- Epitaph on General Gordon.- Epitaph on Caxton.- To the Duke of Argyll.- Hands all round.- Freedom.- To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice.- 'Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies. by Alfred Lord Tennyson.Weight in Kg appr.:

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