New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. First edition. Spine lettering slightly tarnished else fine in very good dustwrapper with some chipping, mostly on the rear panel. Nicely Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to Professor Stuart P. Sherman with a full-page poem, "The Lion-House," which is the last poem to appear in the book. Tipped to the front pastedown is an envelope that contains a letter to Sherman from Wheelock thanking Sherman for his comments on the poems, and hoping him success with his own book, *Americans*. Stuart Pratt Sherman was an American critic and editor, and Professor of English at the University of Illinois until 1924, when he resigned to edit the literary section of the *New York Herald Tribune*. His conservative views propelled him into a running feud with H.L. Mencken. He wrote many critical works, as well as a biography of Matthew Arnold (1917), *Americans* (1922), and *The Emotional Discovery of America and Other Essays* (1932). Sherman was also an editor of *The Cambridge History of American Literature*.
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