Canons of giant art :

twenty torsos in heroic landscapes /
by Sacheverell Sitwell.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897-1988.
Contributors: Yeats Family, donor.
In collection: W. B. Yeats Library
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : Faber and Faber, 1933.
Subjects:
Notes:"Three of these poems, 'The Farnese Hercules', 'The Hermes of Praxitelos', and 'The Laeccon of El Greco' ... were published in The cyder feast."--Preface.

Wood-engraving on the title page is by Enid Lacey.

Imperfect: lacking pages 101-110 [excised apparently to make a preliminary selection for The Oxford book of modern verse (1936)]

Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To / W. B. Yeats / 15.VIII.1933 / with homage / to / a great poet / Sacheverell Sitwell."

"A rough draft in pencil of "Beautiful Lofty Things' on rear endpapers.

"Notes": pages 189-225.

Physical description: 3 preliminary leaves, 225, [1] pages ; 23 cm.

Citations/References: A descriptive catalog of W. B. Yeats's library, Edward O'Shea. - New York ; London : Garland, 1985. page 251.

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