GRAY, John.

Five Fugitive Poems.

Edited with a Prefatory Note by Ian Fletcher. One of 125 copies. 8vo., original purple wrappers, printed label on upper cover. Printed at Skelton’s Press for Eric and Joan Stevens of London, 1983.

£25.00

Two of the six poems are here first published, including “Passing the love of Women”, of which Fletcher notes that Gray “did not recall having written this poem … it is not precisely in Gray’s manner, suggesting rather a melancholy Uranian schoolmaster … its competence and feeling, though are well above that of George Ives or any of the homo-erotic poets of the 1890s”. Mint copy.

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