Description: Hard to find, complete issue of the weekly literary Athenaeum (London) for 17 September 1881. Just a few tiny edge tears to the margins of the wrappers. Nice and clean read. See "Contents" of the issue in photo (upper left-hand corner). 21 pages. Some highlights I find include: A half-page review of some note, this being the first English translation, by British "Lieut.-Col. [Henry] Spaulding," of one of the most celebrated works in Russian literary history, Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (spelled here "Oneguine"). It includes some notable excerpts. The volume was published in London by Macmillan & Co., and a first edition of the book is today worth a small fortune. A review (about a full page) of Francis George Heath's My Garden Wild, and What I Grew There. This is another volume nearly impossible to locate today in a first book edition. Theodore Watts (later Theodore Watts "Dunton") pens a new poem, The Sonnet's Voice: A Metrical Lesson by the Sea-Shore. Nearly a full column of verse, with an introduction by H.G. Atkinson, by Sir Walter Scott, here first published. Atkinson's father was a friend of Scott. the poem is called: The Muckle Stain or Bleeding Stone of Kilburn Priory. 2/3 of a page headed "Notes on the Structure of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound" by James Thomson. Numerous other literary and scientific reports, notes on the current drama, musical performances, art shows, gossip of the day, book news, novels of the week, etc.
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Features: 1st Edition
Publication Frequency: Weekly
Topic: Literature/Poetry/Criticism
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Language: English
Publication Year: 1881
Publication Name: The Athenaeum
