Henry Vaughan: A Life and Interpretation Unknown - 1947

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Oxford University Press, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Good. [Interesting provenance, previously owned by William Force Stead.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Scattered underlining and markings, possibly by Stead. Contemporary signature of William Force Stead on front end page. <br> William Force Stead (1884-1967) was a poet, clergyman and scholar. Born in Washington D.C., he moved to England in 1908 and remained there, for the most part, until 1939. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1916, received a B.A. and an M.A. from Queen's College, Oxford, and served as Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford from 1926 to 1933. Stead baptized T. S. Eliot into the Church of England in 1927. During these decades, Stead published seven volumes of poetry. In 1933 he was received into the Roman Catholic church and resigned his Anglican chaplaincy. In 1939 he returned to the United States where he taught English at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. from… Leer más

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.