reilly 231.

Stapled pamphlet, 22 x 14cm. , pp. N. N. (4) , sl. Foxing, cover browned and grubby, VG+ H. M. S. Affray; lost 16th April, 1951.


Milne, [Charles] Ewart (1903-1987), poet. Born in Dublin and educated in Christ Church Grammar School, he ran away to sea and subsequently became a journalist. He rejected his Anglo-Irish background, and fought on the Republican side in Spain, 1937-41. His fourteen volumes of poetry show a restless variety. The early books, Forty North Forty West (1938) and Listen Mangan (1941), indicate the influence of Yeats's high style. Time Stopped (1967) consists of a loosely-handled poem sequence with prose intermissions, dealing with his second wife's infidelity which he learnt of after her death in 1964.