Dylan Tho
111
as
UNDER
MILK
WOOD
a play for voices
John HawkeJ
THE GOOSE
ON
THE GRAVE
Vernon Watkins
THE
DEATH BELL
The complete. unbowdlerized text of Dylon
Thomas' last masterpiece, in which he gave
fullest expression to his sense of the "daedal
dance of life." Under Milk Wood sings the
circle of a spring day in a small Welsh
coost town. "Lyrical, impossioned and
funny, an Our Town given universality."–
New Statesman. With a frontispiece photo
ond music for the songs.
$3.00
Out of his experience as a war-time
ambulonce driver in Italy, John Howkes
who ottracted international literary atten–
tion with The Cannibal, has distilled two
haunting, obsessive novellas. The Owl tells
of a mogic dictator-owl in a medieval
citadel, while the title novel is about a
child orphoned in World Wor II.
$3.00
Admirers of the lote Dylan Thomos
will be attrocted to this new collection
of poems by one of that qreat poet's
closest friends, whose work Thomas
much esteemed. Like him, Watkins is
a conscientious and meticulous crafts–
man. The Death Bell is the first
selection of the new Poetry Book
Society in England.
$3.00
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