Author: SNYDER, EDWARD D. (ASSOC. PROF. ENGLISH, HAVERFORD COLLEGE); FOREWORD BY JAMES H. LEUBA (PROFESSOR PSYCHOLOGY, BRYN MAWR COLLEGE)
Title: Hypnotic Poetry - A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems and its Literary Significance
Description: Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. 1930. Hardcover . Hardback, 12mo, appx 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, gilt titling on original black cloth covers, xii + 162 pages, Good+/no dj. Tight square binding and quite nice externally (very clean covers, strong gilt titling, lightly bumped lower corners o/w no real signs of wear). Front pastedown bookplate of Minneapolis attorney & legal scholar/author Ben W. Palmer (Condemnation Law, Business Law, Courtroom Strategies) with his moderate amount of pencil underlining & bracketing along with a couple of his marginal notations. Ten chapters include Spellweaving Poems, An Illuminating Hypothesis, Hypnotism and Other Trances, Evidence, Poetic Inspiration, Free Verse in America, etc. At the rear: Works Cited & Index of Poets. Good.

Keywords: Literature Poetry Literary Criticism Hypnosis