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A Poet in Parliament : The Life of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1802-1839.
Published by John Murray, London, first edition, 1939, 1939
First Edition
Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, 268 pp, ills. From the preface - "A hundred years have passed since the death (from consumption at the age of thirty-six) of W. M. Praed, but this is the first attempt at a full-length biography of one who, in his light vein, was probably our most accomplished political satirist, and who has never been equalled as a writer of graceful vers de société. England may have forgotten the 'bright creature' who once dazzled Eton and Cambridge; whose verses in the old 'annuals' made such an impression; who wrote those telling leaders in the Morning Post; whose maiden speech in the House of Commons was awaited with such impatience: but the legend of Praed, one feels, is not irretrievable; it needs only a little dusting and polishing to bring it to life; and the pages that follow have been written in the hope that he may still be allowed his rightful place among the most attractive figures of the nineteenth century." Slightly scuffed and marked, otherwise Good.
