(Plath, Sylvia) Neruda, PabloBiblio.com
1960réf. 345639Third Programme: Future 1960. 16 typescript sheets title and 15 numbered pages of poems printed recto only. Small folio. Held by metal tab in upper left first sheet loose one letter corrected in black ink on p.2 some spotting to first and last sheet; signed on upper right of first sheet "Sylvia Plath Court Green North Tawton Devonshire. 16 typescript sheets title and 15 numbered pages of poems printed recto only. Small folio. In early 1960 they had met the poet W.S. Merwin and his wife Dido who became close to the couple and helped Plath and Hughes find a London Flat. In the spring of 1961 Merwin gave Plath the use of his studio and she began work on the novel that was to become the Bell Jar "working seven days a week from eight to one" and finishing the novel just before moving to Court Green the house in Devon that Plath and Hughes had recently purchased where she wrote the majority of her book Ariel and where Hughes lived in for the rest of his life. The transmission of Merwin's translations of Neruda's poems all from his Residence on Earth 1934-1945 was not aired on the Third Programme until 19 April 1962. Merwin's lively imagistic translations of Neruda would not be published until 1969 in Twenty Love Poems and his version of Neruda's Selected Poems in 1970 both published by Jonathan Cape. Provenance: Frieda Hughes; Clark Heather Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath New York: Knopf 2020 [Third Programme: Future] unknown
1937réf. 33174London: Left Review by Furnell and Sons Ltd 1937. First Edition. First Edition. RARE pamphlet AUTHORS TAKE SIDES ON THE SPANISH WAR 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" pp.28 plus cover printed on cream colour paper inside with black ink and red ink recto verso on the thicker cover stock. Slight wear on the outside right cover as per photos otherwise in fine shape. The editors of AUTHORS TAKE SIDES ON THE SPANISH WAR which was published in London by the Left Review in 1937 posed two questions to a list of influential poets and writers of the 1930's: "Are you for or against the legal Government and the People of Republican Spain Are you for or against Franco and Fascism" This historical and important document consists of 148 contributors and 10000 words on their stand on fascism and democracy. Among the contributors were: Leonard Woolf Vita Sackville-West Aliester Crowley with his name misspelled T S Eliot Ezra Pound W H Auden T.S. Eliot C. Day Lewis Rebecca West Sylvia Townsend Warner Evelyn Waugh George Bernard Shaw to name but a few influencers! Some responses were long and some such as with Samuel Beckett were quite short! '¡UPTHEREPUBLIC!' This significant pamphlet is very rare and a handful can only be found in library archives Left Review by Furnell and Sons Ltd unknown
1959réf. 194140Santiago: privately printed 1959. Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras / secretamente entre la sombra y el alma First edition presentation copy inscribed by the poet on the first blank "a Matilde Ladrón de Guevara gran capitana de sonetos su amigo Pablo Neruda 1960". This is number 12 of 250 copies signed by Neruda with a signed lithograph by the Chilean artist Nemesio Antúnez. Neruda wrote the sonnet sequence over a period of three years for his wife Matilde Urrutia and dedicated it to her; it is widely regarded as one of his greatest works. A fellow Chilean poet Matilde Ladrón de Guevara 1910-2009 has annotated around 40 of the sonnets in ink. Folio. With a lithographic centrefold by Nemesio Antunez signed by him in pencil. Original white wrappers spine and front wrapper lettered in black and red. Wrappers rubbed with a couple of faint stains extremities creased with small spots of wear small tears and creases to outer margins of first three leaves occasional toning to contents. A very good copy. unknown
