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The Sweeniad. Buttle, Myra.  Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1958
The Sweeniad. Buttle, Myra.  Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1958
The Sweeniad. Buttle, Myra.  Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1958
The Sweeniad. Buttle, Myra.  Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1958
The Sweeniad. Buttle, Myra.  Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1958
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Title: The Sweeniad

Publication Date: 1957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

66 printed pages (very slight occasional foxing).  Owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. Pencil annotations throughout.  14.7 X 22.7CM.  Original red cloth (very slightly faded), complete with original salmon dust-jacket printed in red and green (slight wear to edges). This is a mock epic parody of T. S. Eliot written by Victor Purcell, a Cambridge D. Phil.  in Far Eastern History, under the pseudonym Myra Buttle. Provenance: this copy belonged to and was annotated by Francis Meynell.  Meynell (1891-1975) was a British poet, typographer and founder of the Nonesuch Press. In 1956, Meynell's Nonesuch Press had published Eliot's contribution to  "From the Third Programme. A Ten-Years’ Anthology. Edited by John Morris".  Meynell's mother, Alice (1847-1922), had been a popular poet, mentioned as a possible Poet Laureate, but whose work had been completed overshadowed by T.S.Eliot's poetry. Whereas Alice had been a notable suffragist, Eliot privately regretted “the monopolization of literature by women” in a letter to Ezra Pound on April 15, 1915.