A Masque of Reason. First printing

Edité par Henry Holt, New York, 1945

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Robert Frost ? Biblical Drama ? First Printing A Masque of Reason First Printing ? Henry Holt and Company ? New York ? 1945 Published in 1945, on the occasion of Robert Frost?s seventieth birthday, A Masque of Reason marks one of the most unusual turns in his career. Here Frost leaves the familiar landscape of rural New England for a dramatic poem built around Job, God, Satan, and Job?s wife. The result is not pious verse, but a sharp, playful, and philosophical dialogue about justice, suffering, divine authority, and human freedom. Frost uses the masque form to stage theology almost as conversation: witty, ironic, and unsettlingly modern. The dust jacket presents the book as ?a literary event of major importance? and emphasizes how startlingly far it departed from Frost?s earlier work. In this sense, the volume belongs to the later Frost: no longer merely the poet of roads, farms, and snow, but a writer willing to test poetry against the oldest moral arguments in Western literature. This copy is the stated first printing, in the original illustrated dust jacket retaining the $2.00 price. The rear flap lists other books by Frost, including A Boy?s Will, North of Boston, New Hampshire, and A Witness Tree. Bibliographic Details Robert Frost. A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. First printing. Original hardcover with original illustrated dust jacket. 23 pp. Condition Very good copy, with age toning to pages, as usual for this title. Original unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn, with toning and minor wear at extremities. A first printing of Frost?s striking theological masque, published at the threshold of his late career and far removed from the pastoral image by which he is most often remembered. Very good copy, with age toning to pages, as usual for this title.Original unclipped dust jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
A Masque of Reason. First printing
Auteur
Robert Frost
Éditeur
Henry Holt, New York
Année de publication
1945
Jaquette
Jaquette
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No
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
Edition originale

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