All-Fellows. Seven Legends of Lower Redemption. With Insets in Verse.

HOUSMAN, Laurence.

Edité par Date d'édition : 1896

Frontispiece, title-page and seven illustrations by the author. First edition. 8vo., original green cloth with the title-page strapwork design by the author in gilt.  London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Limited. A very good copy with some light wear to the binding (which is the primary binding with the entire title in gilt). Inscribed ?To Margaret Bussé from Laurence Housman. ?The little lay-sister could not know what this meant.' page 129." The recipient is an actor who played in the first, 1904, production of Prunella, Housman's collaboration with Harley Granville Barker. The quotation is from the rather homo-erotic final story where the "woodling" - a lonely female forestal sprite, inserts herself into the life of a convent, beginning by spending three nights in bed with the lay-sister before taking her role. She considers it her mission to make them happy, and introduces them to the life of the forest, naked and joyful, and is left desolate when they choose to re-enter the world of pain and suffering of their religious faith. The Abbess, on renouncing the forest: "Sisters, I cannot fail to know how much grief and suffering is upon you all; on me also it falls. Our hearts are weighed down under a sweet and heavy temptation. Doubt not, it is for our sins we suffer thus ? living too easily, and pampering too much the bodies God has given us to despise.". N° de réf. du vendeur 239092

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Titre : All-Fellows. Seven Legends of Lower ...
Date d'édition : 1896
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Edition : Edition originale