Bowra, C M — The Creative Experiment

Macmillan 1949 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. viii+256pp, index, edges of the dustjacket bumped & rubbed with a little loss, spine tanned, otherwise a nice copy. A collection of eight essays : The Creative Experiment - Constantine Cavafy And The Greek Past - Order And Adventure In Guillaume Apollinaire - The Futurism Of Vladimir Mayakovsky - Boris Pasternak, 1917 to 1923 - T S Eliot, The Wasteland - Federico García Lorca, Romancero Gitano - Rafael Alberti, Sobre Los Ángeles. Cecil Maurice Bowra [ 1898 - 1971 ] English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit.