Author: BUCK, MITCHELL S
Title: EPHEMERA - Greek prose poems.
Description: Philadelphia, Nicholas L. Brown, 1916. 1st edition. Parchment-backed boards/olive, 20,5cmx13,5cm, Spine sl.darkened /Top edge gilt, 750 copies of this book are printed, all on Japan paper. This is (hand written) number 178. Paper lable on spine with writer/title/year. Mitchell Starrett Buck (b. 1887, d. ?) was an American poet, translator and classical scholar. His volumes of verse and prose poetry were deeply influenced by 1890s aestheticism as well as classical Greek and Roman Literature. His work 'Syrinx: Pastels of Hellas', which was published by his friend Donald Evans on his Claire Marie Press in 1914, was praised by H.L. Mencken who remarked that 'Syrinx' contained a series of Grecian rhapsodies in rhythmic prose, many of them of considerable beauty. [Contents: 1). Syrinx - pastels of Hellas. 2). Lesbia - songs of the happy isle. 65 pag.

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