GREENE, G[eorge] A[rthur].
Italian Lyrists of To-Day.
Printed in an edition, per Nelson, BH, 1893.20/61, of 1000 copies. Greene was born in Florence, educated in Dublin and acted as Secretary of the Rhymers’ Club: Edgar Jepson describes his “forbidding” beard, Alford includes him as one of the journeymen poets and Andrew Lang lampoons a line about his goal to “hammer the ringing rhyme”. He collaborated with Ernest Dowson on the massive translation of Richard Muther’s History of Modern Painting in 1895 to 1896. He was fluent in both Italian and Irish, and both taught and administered in the British education system. A near fine copy of a handsomely made book.
