Autograph Manuscript, signed ("Arthur Machen"), of the "Prospectus" Introduction to his collection of essays, Notes and Queries
de Machen, Arthur
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Elsewehere, more evocatively, and despairingly, Machen writes about the landscape that informed The Hill of Dreams (1907): "As it happens, I am a citizen of what was once no mean mean city; though the population of it, if I remember, was somewhere between a thousand and twelve hundred souls. This city is Caeleon-on-Usk, once the splendid Isca Silurum, the headquarters of the Second Augustan Legion. And, then, again a golden mist of legend grew about it; it became the capital of King Arthur's court of faerie and enchantment, the chief city of a cycle of romance that has charmed all the world I remember it as it was fifty-six years ago ... The dream is broken. They have built a horrible, huge, damnable mad-house in blaring, shrieking red brick at the very gates of the city. ... It is all over. Caerleon is to be another pustule on the corrupt body of industrialism. But, I say again, all this is not practical; unless it be practical to create seed-beds and forcing-houses for misery and raging discontent, to make the way ready for the Soviet of Caerleon-on-Usk."
A substantial, legible, and well preserved manuscript recording "the sense of a great loss" which Machen considered to be at the root of Celtic magic, and, perhaps, of his own magic.
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- Título
- Autograph Manuscript, signed ("Arthur Machen"), of the "Prospectus" Introduction to his collection of essays, Notes and Queries
- Autor
- Machen, Arthur
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Prospectus, 6 pp., Introduction, 20 pp., each with numerous corrections in Machen's hand. 1 vols. 4to
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Boards, gilt label to upper cover. Fine. With a copy of the published book, in green cloth, t.e.g. (spine toned)
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- 1
- Edición
- Published by Spurr & Swift in 1926, in an edition of 265 copies
- Lugar de publicación
- [St. John's Wood, London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1926
- Palabras clave
- British
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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