Dancer's End And The Wedding Gift : Two Books Of Poems. Powell, Rt. Hon. J.E. English Literature

Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, 103 pp, frontispiece portrait. From the blurb - " Fifteen years of varied and adventurous life - as a Greek scholar at Cambridge and Professor in Australasia, private soldier and high ranking officer in Europe, Africa, and India, politician and foxhunter - have all found their reflection in these new poems of Enoch Powell, M.P. The two books of poems which comprise this volume, Dancer’s End, a selection of his poems written during the war years and The Wedding Gift, thirty-three poems all written during the summer of 1950, mark a great advance in depth of feeling and breadth of experience on First Poems and Casting Off, his earlier books of pre-war years. It is in this volume that he attains maturity as a poet." As a Classical scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, Powell had attended the lectures of A.E. Housman, for whom he had the greatest respect; much of Powell's poetry attempts to emulate Housman's style, often successfully. Signed by the author on the title-page. Minor marks to boards, slightly brwned dustwrapper which has slight wear to the lower edges.