Centennial Poem for Washington and Lee University. Lexington, Virginia. 1775-1885
Paper wrappers
1885 · New York
by Preston, Margaret J. [Junkin]
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. First edition. Paper wrappers. Offsetting on the title else a fine copy.. 24 pp. printed rectos only. Sm. 8vo. Title in red and black, upper and lower margins ruled in red, running title in red. Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897) was a southern writer. This work, a contemporary noted, "is a poem that appeals strongly to the lovers of American patriotic verse, but it has a higher claim to appreciation than that of mere popular approval, for it possesses the virility of imagination, the stateliness of measure, and the intensity of thought which we naturally associate with odes; but is relieved from all suspicion of stiffness by passages that are purely lyrical," (Literary World, 1885, p.344). Scarce especially in this condition. Bibliography of Virginia 4384. (Inventory #: 40434)