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C. S. Lewis. Hamlet. The Prince or the Poem? Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy, 1942, from the Proceedings...
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C. S. Lewis. Hamlet. The Prince or the Poem? Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy, 1942, from the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XXVIII. London: Humphrey Milford, [1942].8vo. Original printed wrappers, sewn as issued, uncut.
FIRST SEPARATE APPEARANCE, OFFPRINT ISSUE. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO DOUGLAS BUSH on front wrapper: "To Douglas Bush / with kind regards / C. S. L."
John Nash Douglas Bush (1896-1983) was a literary critic and literary historian. Bush taught for most of his life at Harvard University, where his students included many of the most prominent scholars, writers, and academics of several generations. He corresponded with Lewis and shared an interest in Shakespeare and Milton. Bush's textual criticism on Shakespeare and John Milton was widely influential, and his English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century (1945) remains a standard reference work.
This essay was later collected in They Asked For a Paper (1962) and in Selected Literary Essays (1969).
Condition: Some toning at wrapper margins with a few tiny splits or nicks.
References: Christopher & Ostling VI.B.12.
Provenance: Douglas Bush (presentation inscription); Harvard Library (faint rubber stamp to inside front wrapper). From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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