Poesie 39 - 45 An Anthology
Seghers, Pierre (ed)
Editions Poetry London (1947)
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#1634
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Anthology
Hardcover 
Product Details
Nationality France
Pub Place London
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Conflict WW2
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Very Good/Good. Compiled by Mr. Seghers from his bi-monthly magazine which he kept alive through the war years. Includes Louis Aragon, Francois Mauriac, Paul Eluard, Loys Masson, Andre Gide, and others. Poems are in both English and French; prose is in English. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall. 248 pages. A very good, clean, hardcover edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, pages and endpapers lightly yellowed. In a good, price clipped, edgeworn dust jacket with half inch chips at backstrip ends. Binding is Hardcover--cloth.

A bi-lingual anthology of poetry, edited and with an introduction by Pierre Seghers. French poets react to France's defeat and the events of World War II. French text on left, English translation on right. Louis Aragon, Francois Mauriac, Paul Eluard, Andre Gide, ApollinAire,

Edited with introduction by Pierre Seghers. First Edition. Grey cloth. Nice copy in dustwrapper with one short tear. Anthology from the magazine 'Poesie' which Seghers kept going during the Occupation. Contributions by Aragon, Eluard, Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, Francis Ponge, Elsa Triolet and others. Translations by Roy Campbell, Rayner Heppenstall, Sonia Brownell, Peter Watson, Roy Porter, Anne Ridler, Roland Penrose.