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Scarce with such attributes

Heaney, Seamus ~ The Fire I’ The Flint – Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins : Signed By The Nobel Laureate Author

Oxford University Press, London : 1974

The sole UK printing published by Oxford University Press in 1974. A rare copy of the Chatterton Lecture from the British Academy, London, which Heaney delivered in 1974. A 20 page pamphlet bound in printed green card covers. The pamphlet is in near Fine condition with just a hint of light creasing in places. It has been signed (without dedication) by the Nobel Laureate author to the title page. The lecture examined the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The pamphlet is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Scarce with such attributes.

BINDING: Wraps
CONDITION: Near Fine

£550

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Keywords: heaney, Hopkins, irish, Manley Hopkins, Nobel


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