A Masque of Reason.
FROST, Robert.
A Masque of Reason.
"They seem to me so very few, these fleeting Christmas gifts of time": First edition, first printing of Robert Frost's Masque of Reason; with an original Christmas Poem Signed by Frost Tipped In
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945.
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First edition of Frost’s epic play. Octavo, original cloth. With an original Christmas poem signed and entirely in the hand of Frost adhered to the pastedown which reads in full, “Christmas memories, Brightly spangled trees, Here and there a sigh for a childhood now passed by, They seem to me so very few, these fleeting Christmas gifts of time. Robert Frost.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional presentation.
Published on the occasion of Robert Frost's seventieth birthday, A Masque of Reason is a literary event of major importance. The short play purports to be the 43rd and concluding chapter of the book of Job, and so, Frost, like Milton in Paradise Lost, seeks to justify God's treatment of man.
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