LAPSUS CALAMI A DUBLIN STORY by James K Stephens 1891 Rudyard Kipling dis poem

Description: LAPSUS CALAMI A DUBLIN STORY by James K Stephens 1891 Rudyard Kipling dis poem POB#41924 TITLE: Lapsus Calami A Dublin Story AUTHOR: James Kenneth Stephens as J.K.S. PUBLISHER: Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes DATE: 1891 EDITION: First Edition. First publication in book form. DESCRIPTION: 88pp. Translated from Latin: Lapsus Calami means "Slip of the Pen". CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD Missing DJ. Simple spine label peeled at corners but complete and readable. Wear at corners and caps. Period owner inscription "Reginald Smith Camb. 13 May 91". Slight cock to spine. Bookmen pencilings. Clean pages. BINDING: Blue cloth with printed spine label. . James Kenneth Stephen (25 February 1859 – 3 February 1892) was an English poet, and tutor to Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.Includes the famous verse "To R.K." a poem deriding the state of literature of his day ending with the lines:"Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more." Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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