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    Poems
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    Poems

    By Clive Bell

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    As one can surmise from the title, 'Poems' is a collection of poems authored by Clive Bell, an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. Featured titles in the following publication include 'The Card House', 'Letter to a Lady I', and 'Myself to Myself'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 19, 2019
    ISBN4057664103598
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      Poems - Clive Bell

      Clive Bell

      Poems

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664103598

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      PREFACE

      Most or these verses have appeared in the papers—The Nation, New Statesman, Cambridge Magazine—to the editors of which I tender customary dues. Also, in 1917, a dozen were brought together to make a little book, Ad Familiares, of which a hundred copies were printed privately. Of these seventy were immediately distributed amongst my friends, while the remaining thirty have drifted into the hands of curious amateurs who wrote and asked for them. My stock is now exhausted; but apparently the stock of amateurs is not: for, from time to time, still reach me civil requests for a

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