ROCHE, Paul
Lament for Erica
Bembridge: The Yellowsands Press, 1970
First edition. Quarto (overall 26.5 x 15.5 cm, 10-1/2 x 6-1/8 in.). No. 14 of 36 numbered copies, signed by Paul Roche in ink on the colophon. Gray paper covers, white title piece with black lettering on front cover, top edges trimmed, others uncut. Collates [2 ll.], 1 l. (half-title), 1 l. (title), 2 ll. (poem), 1 l. (colophon), [1 l.]. Fine. This copy is inscribed by Simon Rendall to Kenneth Garth Huston on the colophon: “for K G H from SR / at a first & happy meeting / 9 October 1977.” Paul Roche (1916-2007) “... was a critically acclaimed poet and novelist, and translated Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho and Plautus; he also conducted a 32-year relationship with the Bloomsbury painter, Duncan Grant. ... Between 1956 and 1958 he taught at Smith College, where he became great friends with Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, who was also a member of the faculty. In 1958 he was awarded the Bollingen Foundation Fellowship and published The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles. Numerous publications of poetry followed, together with translations of The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus, which the great classicist and writer on mythology Edith Hamilton declared ‘the best I have ever read’. In 1958 Duncan Grant decorated the Russell Chantry at Lincoln Cathedral, using Roche as the model for Christ.” Daily Telegraph, obituary, November 8, 2007.
Price: $75
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Lament for Erica
Bembridge: The Yellowsands Press, 1970
First edition. Quarto (overall 26.5 x 15.5 cm, 10-1/2 x 6-1/8 in.). No. 14 of 36 numbered copies, signed by Paul Roche in ink on the colophon. Gray paper covers, white title piece with black lettering on front cover, top edges trimmed, others uncut. Collates [2 ll.], 1 l. (half-title), 1 l. (title), 2 ll. (poem), 1 l. (colophon), [1 l.]. Fine. This copy is inscribed by Simon Rendall to Kenneth Garth Huston on the colophon: “for K G H from SR / at a first & happy meeting / 9 October 1977.” Paul Roche (1916-2007) “... was a critically acclaimed poet and novelist, and translated Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho and Plautus; he also conducted a 32-year relationship with the Bloomsbury painter, Duncan Grant. ... Between 1956 and 1958 he taught at Smith College, where he became great friends with Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, who was also a member of the faculty. In 1958 he was awarded the Bollingen Foundation Fellowship and published The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles. Numerous publications of poetry followed, together with translations of The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus, which the great classicist and writer on mythology Edith Hamilton declared ‘the best I have ever read’. In 1958 Duncan Grant decorated the Russell Chantry at Lincoln Cathedral, using Roche as the model for Christ.” Daily Telegraph, obituary, November 8, 2007.
Price: $75
Inquiries: mail@mobysnewt.com
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