Author Name: Greenberg, Samuel.
Title: POEMS BY SAMUEL GREENBERG: A Selection from the Manuscripts. Edited with an Introduction by Harold Holden and Jack McManis. Preface by Allen Tate.
Publisher: NY: Henry Holt and Company, (1947).
Seller ID: 114
- 8vo, tan cloth titled in brown, in dw (lightly soiled, chipped & creased; dw spine spotted with small pieces out of head & tail). xxiii & 117 pp. plus colophon (front pastedown lightly soiled; rear pastedown darkened with small stain; small stain to rear endpaper). With B&W portrait frontis & 1 facsimile plate. Very good. First edition. "These poems represent a careful selection from the manuscripts left by a young American poet, Samuel Greenberg. his life and work follow the traditionally romantic pattern of poetic genius, tragic poverty, and early death which has recurred form time to time in English letters since the time of Thomas Chatterton. Product of Vienna and of New York's lower east side, Greenberg never had the chance to learn his craft; from the time he left the sixth grade to work in a leather factory he was busy with the problem of survival. But the important and tenuous cards of money and health, which were all stacked against him, took him to the fountainheads of romantic poetry and touched off a spark of original genius which with this volume, will be granted its first wide and legitimate recognition as an important addition to the forces of creative America. Up to now Greenberg has been known almost exclusively (except for one article by his editors) as the obscure boy whose poetry was a direct inspiration to Hart Crane." -- Excerpted from the dw blurb.
MODERN LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; VERSE; ALEN TATE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; SAMUEL GREENBERG; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ROMANTIC POETRY; HART CRANE; AMERICAN POET.
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