overture von scott (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. Ramos, Humberto; Stegman, Ryan (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Edition. 79 p. 22 cm. Yellow hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. A few marks to jacket, including small mark on spine. A few tears to edges. Canadian poet, intellectual, and constitutional expert F. R. "Frank" Scott helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party. In addition to his political accomplishments, Scott won Canada's top literary prize, the Governor General's Award, twice, once for poetry and once for non-fiction. In this collection of Modernist verse, Scott attempts to emancipate Canadian poetry from traditional methods of poetry writing. The last poem in the book, Villanelle For Our Time, was set to music by Leonard Cohen and recorded for his album Dear Heather.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good +. First Edition. [6], 79 p. 22 cm. Yellow paper-covered hardcover in mylar-covered yellow dustjacket. Small tears to jacket edges and crease in front flap. F. R. Scott attempts to emancipate Canadian poetry from traditional methods of poetry writing in this collection of Modernist verse. Poems include: Spring 1941, Spain 1937, Trans Canada, etc.