Volume II, number 3 of The Grecourt Review, published in May, 1959 by Smith College. 8vo (6” x 9”), abstract oscillograph-like patterned yellow wrappers, 53 pages, a few b/w illustrations. A remarkable Smith College literary review issued less than a year after Sylvia Plath concluded her appointment as an instructor in English at her alma mater. Contains the first appearance of Plath's poem "Sculptor"(p. 282), later separately issued in a tiny printing and regarded by some bibliographers as her first separate publication, preceding A Winter Ship by a year. Also includes the true first appearance of Ted Hughes's "Roosting Hawk" (p. 235), published here under its original title prior to its revision and retitling as "Hawk Roosting" in Lupercal (1960).
Further distinguished by an early contribution from Judson Crews, whose poem "Canticle Lucid and Sparse" predates his emergence as an important figure in the American small-press poetry movement. An unusually rich and increasingly elusive little magazine documenting the emergence of several important literary voices at the close of the 1950s, enhanced by the graphically striking wrappers. Previous owner’s name on the title page, with some pencil notations and underlinings within.
Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities, with light creasing to corners of wrappers.
Volume II, number 3 of The Grecourt Review, published in May, 1959 by Smith College. 8vo (6” x 9”), abstract oscillograph-like patterned yellow wrappers, 53 pages, a few b/w illustrations. A remarkable Smith College literary review issued less than a year after Sylvia Plath concluded her appointment as an instructor in English at her alma mater. Contains the first appearance of Plath's poem "Sculptor"(p. 282), later separately issued in a tiny printing and regarded by some bibliographers as her first separate publication, preceding A Winter Ship by a year. Also includes the true first appearance of Ted Hughes's "Roosting Hawk" (p. 235), published here under its original title prior to its revision and retitling as "Hawk Roosting" in Lupercal (1960).
Further distinguished by an early contribution from Judson Crews, whose poem "Canticle Lucid and Sparse" predates his emergence as an important figure in the American small-press poetry movement. An unusually rich and increasingly elusive little magazine documenting the emergence of several important literary voices at the close of the 1950s, enhanced by the graphically striking wrappers. Previous owner’s name on the title page, with some pencil notations and underlinings within.
Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities, with light creasing to corners of wrappers.
