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London: The Bodley Head, 1954. Cloth Bds. G-VG in Good dustwrapper (price clipped). 8vo. Peter Reddick dw design. dustwrapper Being a history and analysis of the office of Poet Laureate in English Literature, and a study of each Laureate from Dryden to Masefield; includes studies of the various poets who have held the office, what the position meant to them, how they lived up to or failed to live up to the office, how it effected their poetry, from style to output etc; section II of the book is made up of an anthology of the works of the poets; endpapers and prelims foxed, o.w Vg throughout; dustwrapper chipped & rubbed, price clipped, one or two short closed tears, o.w. Good, mylar protected.