The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow, Including the Shepherd Lady and Other Poems.

New York, NY Hurst and Company, 1898. Hardcover Good+: shows very light wear to the extremities; top edge a little dusted and a dampstain which penetrates about a quarter inch into the top of the text pages; the text pages have tanned a bit, due to aging; former owner's name rubber stamped at the front free endpaper; the umber-toned cloth over boards are rather heavily soiled; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A good reading copy, structurally sound and tighly bound, showing the moderate wear and some cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.85 x 4.65 x 0.9 inches) . viii, 493 pages. Language: English. Weight: 11 ounces. Umber cloth over boards with "Popular Classics" Design at front panel and gilt titles at backstrip. Black designs at the front panel and backstrip. No date, but the format would seem to indicate late Nineteenth century publication (c 1898). Reprint Edition. Hardback: No DJ 'as issued'. Jean Ingelow (1820 – 1897) was an English poet and novelist, who became suddenly popular in 1863. She also wrote several stories for children. Ingelow's poems, collected in one volume in 1898, were frequently popular successes. "Sailing beyond Seas" and "When Sparrows build in Supper at the Mill" were among the most popular songs of the day. Her best-known poems include "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire" and "Divided". Many, particularly her contemporaries, have defended her work. Gerald Massey described The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire as "a poem full of power and tenderness" and Susan Coolidge remarked in a preface to an anthology of Ingelow's poems, "She stood amid the morning dew/And sang her earliest measure sweet/Sang as the lark sings, speeding fair/to touch and taste the purer air."Sailing beyond Seas" (or "The Dove on the Mast") was a favourite poem of Agatha Christie, who quotes it in two novels, The Moving Finger and Ordeal by Innocence.