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Very Good. 16mo 5.75-6.75'' tall. Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Privately Printed, Boston, MA 1897. First Edition. 1st Printing. 11 pages. Greenish-blue cover paper, black printing. Nice Firm Clean copy! Light general wear. Size: 16mo 5.75-6.75'' tall. 'A Prelude written by Francis Sherman is privately printed for him and for Herbert Copeland and F.H. Day and their friends. Christmas M D CCC XCVII. ' Starting sentence: 'Watching the tremulous flicker of the green against the open quiet of the sky, I hear my ancient way-fellows convene in the great wood behind me. ' Francis Sherman 1871-1926. Sherman last published work appeared at Christmastime, 1900, and he appears to have stopped writing poetry entirely in 1901. Sherman's long poem 'A Prelude' was published privately by Copeland and Day in 1897. It 'demonstrates a subtle shift away from the Pre-Raphaelites. Its diction is not as anachronistic as the previous collections, though it is still freighted with elevated language. Sherman incorporates Canadian foliage such as birches, maples, and pines more perceptibly here and allows himself a closer association to New Brunswick subject matter. ' Roberts called 'A Prelude' 'a sustained contemplative poem of nature interwoven with human interest, inspired with that seriousness, that unawareness of the trivial, so characteristic of all Sherman's work. It is written, with unfaltering technique throughout, in that most exacting Italian verse form, the Terza Rima, which scarcely any one else except Shelley has known how to handle successfully in English. Poetry: Before 1900 6045.
