الثلاثاء، 6 أغسطس 2013

A rare copy of Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" sold at a price of £ 4500



Sold a rare copy of the poem "The Waste Land" by the English poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (known simply as TS Eliot), which had been donated to the Library of the British charity organization "Oxfam" in an auction at 4.5 of thousands of pounds sterling. 
And reflect the poem "The Waste Land", which is one of the finest work of the English poet ever poem that earned him international fame, disappointment generation after the First World War and the perception of a world inhabited by fears and desires obsessed sterile and waiting for salvation. 

The poem was published in Hogarth Press, founded by a friend Elliot Leonard and English novelist Virginia Woolf. 

He donated a British citizen named Colin Cohen, who was one of the members of his family gave him this version of the famous poem, published in 1923, this edition of the branch of Oxfam in the city of Oxford. 

It was expected to be sold at a price ranging between two and three thousand pounds sterling. 
It is believed that the typewriter line poem written by the implementation of the English novelist Virginia Woolf, and the poem is part of the edition included 460 other copy. 
The sale at auction in addition to the poem The Waste Land, a photo album of Japan at a price of £ 1,500. 

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