by  Laura Riding and Robert Graves                            

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1927, First Edition

Dustjacket: none (rarely seen)

Illustrated: no

Condition:  Original publisher's dark brown cloth-backed spine, decorated red and white boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, STRAIGHT, TIGHT & CLEAN in GOOD CONDITION without inscriptions. The cover is rubbed and the spine mildly bumped at top and bottom, and the preliminary pages including the title page show foxing and age-darkening, the body of the book is crisp and clean and the final index and endpapers once again show age-darkening and foxing. A ROBUST copy.

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• The first edition of a ground-breaking critical analysis of modern poetry, from Byron to Cummings, Eliot to Tate, by Robert Graves (1895-1985) in collaboration with his lover, the American poet and novelist Laura Riding (1901-1991).
•  The work notably influenced literary critic Sir William Empson (1906-1984) to write his equally influential Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), a key foundation text in the formation of the New Criticism school.