Selected Poems of Frank Prewett / Exile Editions ( part-Iroquois Ontario Poet / War poetry )(selections from: The Collected Poems / Poems / The Rural Scene )

Toronto, Ontario: Toronto, ON: Exile Editions, 1987, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1987. ----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket, gift inscription, some very faint pencil underlining, 95 pages, b&w photos as well as one illustration (frontispiece), collects 46 poems as well as "Farm Life in Ontario Fifty Years Ago: Three Broadcast talks (from 1964 ),, ---from the front flap: Frank 'Toronto' Prewett was a Canadian poet. Born near Mount Forest, Ontario in 1893 probably of part-Iroquois stock, he was raised in Toronto and left in 1915 to fight in the First World War. Wounded and shell shocked, he met Siegfried Sassoon [wh] introduced him to a whole host of writers and encouraged Prewett to become a poet. In post-war England, prewett became the toast of the British literati and was known and feted by Lady Ottoline Morrell, W B Yeats, Thomas Hardy, T S Eliot, Robert graves, Edmund Blunden, Virginia and Leaonard Woolf and Aldous Huxley. He died in 1962 after a career as a broadcaster, editor and teacher, virtually unknown in his native labd.---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine (see desciption)/Near Fine (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover. 6.25w x 9.25h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.