Selected Verse Translations

Gascoyne (David).  Edited by Alan Clodd and Robin Skelton. Introduction by Roger Scott  Enitharmon Press,  1996 First Edition of this selection    Wrappers Fine copy. Inscribed by Alan Clodd, the co-editor, to Arthur Uphill: “Arthur with best wishes 15.vii.96 Alan Clodd”. In their preface (reprinted from Gascoyne’s Collected Verse Translations, published in 1970) the editors record that they “have greatly benefited” from “the research of Arthur Uphill”  In effect a revised edition of Collected Verse Translations (1970), with some work omitted and previously unpublished translations added, including from Hölderlin, Jouve and Mallarmé. The cloth bound issue was limited to 50 copies.Arthur Uphill (1931-2009) joined the staff of Bertram Rota Ltd. in 1955 and worked for the company as a cataloguer for nearly thirty-eight years. He brought to the company an extraordinary depth of knowledge of the expatriate authors living and working in Paris after 1918 and most especially of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett. 

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