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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper. 8vo. Dustwrapper A study of the art of song, with focus on how words and music go together (if indeed they do at all), asking questions such as, is the making of a song a poet's job, a musician's job, or whose?, can poetry be too good to set to music?, what makes a good song?, etc; chapters on the dispute between music and poetry, the poet's task, the decline of song, the poet and the theatre, and with a chapter on Yeats and the Art of Song; nice abstract-designed paper over green cloth boards with white label to spine; this copy has one small bookshop label to front pastedown, some foxing/offset to endpapers, light foxing to prelims and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, lightly sunned to front, price clipped, o.w. Very Good (mylar protected).