[Typescript anthology:] 'Centuries of Love'.

Publication details: Shipton-under-Wychwood: January1966,

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This personal anthology of love poems made by British etcher Robin Tanner begins with Thomas Flatman's 'The Bachelor's Song' and includes numerous selections from John Donne and from medieval manuscripts; Victorian poets are more summarily handled, with examples from William Morris, Christina Rossetti, and Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach'; verses from Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas evince a tendency towards the pastoral, whilst 'Above the High' by Geoffrey Grigson (whose work on flora Tanner had illustrated) evokes the Oxford in whose environs Tanner's career as school-inspector had planted him; the anthology closes with selections from Kathleen Raine (a mystical strain again compatible with Tanner's own work), Henry Reed, Thomas Blackburn, and Louis MacNeice.

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typed sheets, faint red wine stain to varying degrees at page-heads (but nowhere touching text), a few small manuscript corrections, ff. 22, 4to, the sheets loose within grey card folder, this with title to front: 'Centuries of Love: R.', and date and location to flap, both in the elegant calligraphic hand of Robin Tanner, wine stains to both covers, good

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