Triolet to Claire :
Eimhar O'Duffy wrote a short poem to Claire Hobson [wife of Bulmer Hobson] on the half-title page of a copy of his book, 'A Lay of the Liffey and Other Verses', on 4 July 1918, a book printed that year by Colm O'Lochlainn's Three Candles Press...
[James Wilder, Wild Apple Press].
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| Summary: | Letterpress printing of a short verse entitled 'Triolet to Claire' [the original written by Eimhar O'Duffy in manuscript hand on a presentation copy of his book 'A Lay of the Liffey and Other Verses', held in the National Library of Ireland at NLI call number 9A 5283]. Printed at bottom of front of card "Keepsake printed in 2007 at the Wild Apple Press, Bethesda, Maryland". Verse entitled 'Triolet to Claire' reads - "You ask for a verse / O Publisher's Bride! / If I lay in my hearse / You'd ask for a verse. / Though you've but to immerse / You in what are inside / You ask for a verse / O Publisher's Bride!". |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bethesda, Maryland [USA] : Wild Apple Press,
2007.
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 card (a single sheet folded to [4] pp.) ; 10.3 x 15.8 cm.. more |
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EPH A1421 |
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Ephemera |
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