Pelicans ISBN 0 14 02.1498 4 - The Truth of Poetry Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960s

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969 Published in Pelican Books 1972

Copyright © Michael Hamburger, 1969

Made and printed in Great Britain Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Monotype Baskerville

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