modernisms

Modernisms
lunch with ‘a bore, a man in the Egyptian Legation, who I think will be an utter waste
of time’).
Eliot’s opinion of Cattaui, who wrote a study of Eliot alongside Hopkins and Yeats
in 1947 (’I found what he had to say about myself slightly irritating’, Eliot wrote
to E.R. Curtius) and then a full-length study in 1958 that enlarged his tendency -
objectionable to the subject - to focus on the personal background of the poet’s work,
does not appear to have been a high one and he accordingly has not read this volume.
‘Avril est le plus cruel de mois’
37. Eliot (T.S.) ‘La Terre Vaine’ in La Licorne I. [Translated by Pierre Leyris.] Paris:
Éditions de la Licorne, Printemps 1947, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION,
1722/2200 COPIES, some faint foxing to final pages, erratum slip tipped in
between pp. 102-3, pp. 194, 4to, original printed wrappers, a few spots, edges
untrimmed, protective tissue wrapper, very good (Gallup D144) £150
Beaten to the punch by Jean de Menasce’s 1926 translation,
this first appearance of Leyris’s translation is nevertheless
significant - it had been completed with the cooperation
and assistance of Eliot himself, as well as John Hayward; it
is, allowing for the eminent difficulty of the task, a largely
successful attempt at rendering into another tongue the
words and music of the original.
Other contributors to this periodical include Jorge Luis
Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Maurice Blanchot.
Two Danish translations, signed by Eliot
38. Eliot (T.S.) Ødemarken og andre Digte. Paa Dansk ved Kai Friis Møller og Tom
Kristensen. Copenhagen: Westermann, 1948, FIRST DANISH EDITION, 78/235 COPIES
signed by the author and translators (from an edition of 885 copies), title-page
and fly-titles printed in blue, a small amount of annotation in pencil largely
restricted to ‘Waste Land’ notes, pp. 86, crown 8vo, unbound as issued in original
blue paste paper boards with printed label to upper board, backstrip faded as
often found, matching slipcase a little faded and rubbed with printed label, very
good (Gallup D49) £350
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