Polite Essays (1937)
A42
Editions
a. First edition
POLITE ESSAYS | by | EZRA POUND | FABER AND FABER LTD | 24 Russell Square | London
1 blank leaf, 3 leaves, 207 pp. 19.3 x 13 cm. Red cloth boards stamped in gold on spine; end-papers; top edges stained yellow-green. Lavender dust-jacket printed in black and red.
Published 11 February 1937 at 7s. 6d.; 2000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in February Mcmxxxvii ... Printed in Great Britain at the University Press Cambridge ...
Contents: 1. Harold Monro—Mr Housman at Little Bethel—Hell—z. ‘We Have Had No Battles but We Have All Joined In and Made Roads’—The Prose Tradition in Verse [“Mr Hueffer and the Prose Tradition in Verse”]—Dr Williams’ Position—James Joyce et Pécuchet [in French]—Mr Eliot’s Solid Merit—‘Abject and Utter Farce-——The Teacher’s Mission—A Letter from Dr Rouse to E. P—Retrospect: Interlude—3. Prefatio aut cimicium tumulus [from Active Anthology (1933)—B32]—“‘Active Anthology’ (Retrospect Twenty Months Later)— How to Read [A33]—Civilization—Note on Dante [from Chapter VI of The Spirit of Romance (1910)—A5]
b. American issue ([1940])
EZRA POUND | POLITE ESSAYS | NEW DIRECTIONS | Norfolk, Conn. [James Laughlin]
1 blank leaf, 3 leaves, 207 pp. 19 x 12.6 cm. Red cloth boards, with white paper label printed in black on spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in grey and red.
Published January 1940 at $2.50; 700 sets of sheets with reprinted title-leaf and its conjugate were imported by New Directions and specially bound and jacketed for sale in the United States. On verso of title-leaf: ... Printed in England.
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