Madison Cawein THE REPUBLIC: Little Book of and 43 similar items

THE REPUBLIC A Little Book of Homespun Verse by Madison Cawein Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company, Publishers, (1913). First edition: Published in an edition of 1000 copies. Slim octavo: 98 pages. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth; in printed white dust jacket. A fine, sharp copy; in an about very good dust jacket with extremity chipping and a dime-sized piece missing from the front panel and a small piece missing from the spine (affecting the author's name). Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914) was a poet born in Kentucky. As a popular local poet he earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". Some scholars believe that Cawein's poem Waste Land was an inspiration for T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. "Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. This certainly encompassed much of T. S. Eliot's own interest, but whereas Eliot was also seeking a modern language and form, Cawein strove to maintain a traditional approach. Although he gained an international reputation, he has been eclipsed as the genre of poetry in which he worked became increasingly outmoded."--wikipedia. BAL 3034. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS!