Kingsley Amis – Bright November – First Edition 1943
£485.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Bright November’ published by The Fortune Press in 1943. A very good book with some faint tape shadows to the endpapers. In a very good clipped and publisher repriced dust wrapper. Small stain to the bottom of the spine.
A reflective, slightly sardonic poem in which Kingsley Amis captures the quiet melancholy of late autumn. The poem contrasts the month’s clear light and sharp air with an underlying sense of emotional barrenness. Nature appears vivid yet unwelcoming, mirroring human detachment and disillusionment. Amis’s controlled language and irony suggest a resistance to sentimentality, presenting November as honest rather than comforting.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Bright November’ published by The Fortune Press in 1943. A very good book with some faint tape shadows to the endpapers. In a very good clipped and publisher repriced dust wrapper. Small stain to the bottom of the spine.
A reflective, slightly sardonic poem in which Kingsley Amis captures the quiet melancholy of late autumn. The poem contrasts the month’s clear light and sharp air with an underlying sense of emotional barrenness. Nature appears vivid yet unwelcoming, mirroring human detachment and disillusionment. Amis’s controlled language and irony suggest a resistance to sentimentality, presenting November as honest rather than comforting.
