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The fool of the world & other poems

Archive Print Item: BC Rom SYM

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Type of record: Book

Title: The fool of the world & other poems

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Rom SYM

Creator(s): Symons, Arthur (1865-1945)

Publisher: William Heinemann

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1906]

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 unnumbered pages, vi, 3-118 pages, 2 unnumbered pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/293418

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003191789705181

Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections

Description

The fool of the world was acted by the New Stage Club at the Victoria Hall, Bayswater, on April 5, 1906. Some of the shorter poems in this volume are printed separately in 'A Book of twenty songs', published by Messrs. J. M. Dent and Co.


Colophon: Printed by Ballantyne & Co., Limited, Tavistock Street, London.


Contents: I. The fool of the world: a morality -- II. Meditations -- III. Amends to nature -- IV. Guests -- V. Variations on an old tune -- VI. Mary in Bethlehem: a nativity.


Indexed in: Beckson, K. Arthur Symons A18a.

Additional description

With a poem, Gypsy song. (For Fenella), in the author's handwriting, signed by him, and dated January 1, 1908, on the flyleaf. Fenella Lovell (i.e. Lillian Mortimer) was an artist's model who claimed to be a Romany and often sat for painters of Gypsy subjects. Inserted is a short biography of Lillian Mortimer, typed, and signed by Eleanor Farjeon, on a sheet of her notepaper

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