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Robinson, Alfred; Gray; Shakespeare; Tennyson: Yeats; Cowper; Lang; FitzGerald (Omar Khayam); Housman; Arnold; Blake; Wordsworth; Scott; Longfellow; Stevenson et al.. Versus Wulfrunenses. Kendall: Printed by Titus Wilson & Son, 1929. First Edition. Black Cloth. Very Good. (viii), 81pp. Edges untrimmed. “This volume contains … the Latin verse written in concert by the Sixth Form of Wolverhampton Grammar School during the mastership of Alfred Robinson, 1897-1929.” In addition to the Latin translations from English poets there are half a dozen Latin translations from the Greek & two original Latin poems by Robinson. There is a printed compliments sheet with Robinson’s address on the front pastedown as well as an initialled handwritten inscription from Robinson dated 1929. Small ownership ticket of Oxford academic, book collector & author, John Sparrow. Beneath which, Sparrow, who was briefly at Wolverhampton Grammar School in 1915, has written that he purchased the book in 1986 at Oxford. Corners bumped & boards a little marked with rubbing & fractional wear at head & tail of spine.
Running Upon the Wires 
The Barbarians' Return 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes 
The Smeds and the Smoos 
Milk and Honey 
States of Happiness 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Pointing Still 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Under Clouded Skies & Beauregard: Pens?es sous les nuages & Beauregard (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 5)