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HAMPTON, Christopher, 1946- - editor :

POEMS FOR SHAKESPEARE : EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON.

London : Globe Playhouse Trust Publications, 1972. First edition. The first of the "Poems for Shakespeare" series, with new poems by Dannie Abse, W.H.Auden, Bob Cobbing, Jeni Couzyn, Robert Graves, Cecil Day Lewis, George MacBeth, Norman MacCaig, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove and Vernon Scannell. Loosely inserted is a programme for the 1972 Shakespeare Birthday Concert at which the poems were read or performed. Post 8vo. (64)pp. Original pictorial wraps - a Nicholas Jenkins design in green, red and black on white - lower wrap very slightly yellowed, but a very good copy. From the collection of the late Barry Bloomfield, Auden's bibliographer.

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