signed first edition Trade Paperback
1970 · London
by Porter, Peter
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Edges a bit rubbed, wrappers toned. 1970 Trade Paperback. iv, 67, [1] pp. "Widely regarded as one of the best 'social' poets now writing in England, he writes of the English, and of what it means to be living in England now, with a sharpness of perception derived in part, perhaps, from the fact that he is an Australian. These poems, which were written between 1967 and 1970, continue the directions and preoccupations of Mr. Porter's earlier books. Increasingly man is seen in a historical as well as a social dimension, but counter-balancing such powerful and ambitious poems as 'Europe' and 'The Widow's Story,' are a group of personal poems and some more of his brilliant translations from Martial, a poet with whom he has much in common. (Inventory #: 2263248)