A bibliography of the writings of D. H. Lawrence

by Edward D. McDonald

Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in light blue boards; front cover lettered in gilt as follows: Georgian Poetry / 1913-1915 / The Poetry Bookshop Backbone lettered across in gilt and ornamented: Georgian / Poetry / 1913-1915 / P (diamond) B (on bright red shield). Back cover blank. Top edges gilt; fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.

To the second volume of Georgian Poetry Mr. Lawrence contributed the following poems: “Service of All the Dead;” “Meeting among the Mountains;” “Cruelty and Love.” They occupy pages 153-158. The last was reprinted from Love Poems; the first was later included in Look! We Have Come Through! where it appeared under the title “Giorno dei Morti.” “Meeting among the Mountains” has not, unless I am mistaken, been included in any of Mr. Lawrence’s books of verse.

SOME IMAGIST POETS

Published April 1915

Some Imagist / Poets / An Anthology / (publishers’ device) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1915

Collation:—pp. ii + x + 96, consisting of leaf, not reckoned in pagination, recto blank (with seven titles in The New Poetry Series, surrounded by one-line border, on verso), pp. (i, ii); half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with Copyright, 1915, By Houghton Mifflin Company / All Rights Reserved / Published April 1915 on verso), pp. (iii, iv); Preface, pp. v-(viii); table of Contents, pp. ix, (x); divisional fly-leaf, with Richard Aldington on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-(92); divisional fly-leaf, with Bibliography on recto (verso blank), pp. (93, 94); Bibliography, p. (95). Printers’ imprint at center of p. (96) as follows: The Riverside Press / Cambridge . Massachusetts / U . S . A

Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered in black as follows: Some Imagist Poets / An Anthology / The New Poetry Series / (publishers’ device) Houghton Mifflin Company / Boston and New York / (small ornament). Lettered down backstrip: Some Imagist Poets Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore edges of boards. End-papers white.

To this volume, the first of three Imagist Anthologies published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Mr. Lawrence contributed seven poems as follows: “Ballad of Another Ophelia;” “Illicit;” “Fireflies in the Corn;” “A Woman and Her Dead Husband;” “The Mowers;” “Scent of Irises;” “Green.” These poems occupy pages 67 to 78. The first and sixth appeared later in Amores. The second, third, fifth, and seventh were included in Look! We Have Come Through! But, “The Mowers,” revised, was here printed under the title “A Youth Mowing,” and “Illicit” became “On a Balcony.” “A Woman and Her Dead Husband” is, in New Poems, “The Bitterness of Death.”

Because the contributors to the Imagist Anthologies had agreed among themselves to submit nothing that had previously appeared in book form, these collections are of especial interest to collectors of Mr. Lawrence’s first printings in books.