The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas

Douglas, Lord Alfred

Published by Martin Secker, London; (1919)

About this Item

Octavo. 125(1) pp. Limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author. The present copy is #21 specially printed on Japon paper. The author says in part; "Certain poems which appeared in an edition published in Paris in 1896, with a French translation, he had refrained from putting into this collected edition for the same reason which caused him to refuse to include them in "The City of the Soul, "published in 1899 and which impelled him to withhold permission for the republication of the entire Paris edition which had been more than once urged on him by Mercure de France, his first publishers. He understands having written these poems he cannot escape responsibility for them, and he had no doubt that after his death they will eventually be reprinted. His reason for omitting them from this edition is that, although there is no actual harm in them, they lend themselves to evil interpretations, and the fact that they have been interpreted by those whose interest it has been to attack and defame him and that they have actually been used against him in the law courts by the very persons who most applauded them at the time they were written, has given him a distaste for them which such poetical merits as they may possess are insufficient to dispel. Bound in blue paper covered boards, paper spine label lettered in black, some darkening to spine and a bit along the edges, very tiny chips to label, no names or bookplates. Seller Inventory # 023317

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas

Publisher: Martin Secker, London; (1919)

Edition: First Edition.