STRONG, L. A. G. (1896-1958). Typescript memoir of visits to Garsington, dated 22 November 1932, 9 pages, 4to, published posthumously with revisions as part of the autobiographical Green Memory (1961). Occasional minor ink corrections. Pinned together with covering typed letter signed, 22 November 1932, 42 Brunswick Gardens, W.8, 1 page, 8vo, conceding 'There are several things about Garsington which are more easily talked about than written about'. RECOLLECTIONS OF W. B. YEATS AND BERTRAND RUSSELL, THE ASQUITHS, GOGARTY AND OTHERS. Strong had known Garsington in its most controversial period, during the First World War, when it became 'a sanctuary for those who did not think with the majority of their countrymen', and he would visit three times a term from Wadham College, Oxford. Later, he writes, it stood for freedom of thought and 'became a target for every sort of arrow, and the arrows were all the sharper because there was envy as well as dislike behind them'. Himself much influenced by Yeats, Strong recalls talking 'under a big tree' to Eliot, who told him 'Yeats' poetry is good because you could take any single line of it, test it on the scales, and find it full of weight.'STRONG, L. A. G. Dublin Days. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1921. 16°. Original olive green wrappers with paper label, unopened. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Together with 2 autograph letters from Strong to Morrell.STRONG, L. A. G. The Lowery Road. Oxford: Blackwell, 1923. Original blue paper over boards, worn, blue cloth spine. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, and with a letter to Ottoline Morrell remarking that the book 'is in its way homage to Mr Yeats and all I learnt from him.'With 8 other books by the same author, PRESENTATION COPIES.

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STRONG, L. A. G. (1896-1958). Typescript memoir of visits to Garsington, dated 22 November 1932, 9 pages, 4to, published posthumously with revisions as part of the autobiographical Green Memory (1961). Occasional minor ink corrections. Pinned together with covering typed letter signed, 22 November 1932, 42 Brunswick Gardens, W.8, 1 page, 8vo, conceding 'There are several things about Garsington which are more easily talked about than written about'. RECOLLECTIONS OF W. B. YEATS AND BERTRAND RUSSELL, THE ASQUITHS, GOGARTY AND OTHERS. Strong had known Garsington in its most controversial period, during the First World War, when it became 'a sanctuary for those who did not think with the majority of their countrymen', and he would visit three times a term from Wadham College, Oxford. Later, he writes, it stood for freedom of thought and 'became a target for every sort of arrow, and the arrows were all the sharper because there was envy as well as dislike behind them'. Himself much influenced by Yeats, Strong recalls talking 'under a big tree' to Eliot, who told him 'Yeats' poetry is good because you could take any single line of it, test it on the scales, and find it full of weight.' STRONG, L. A. G. Dublin Days. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1921. 16°. Original olive green wrappers with paper label, unopened. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Together with 2 autograph letters from Strong to Morrell. STRONG, L. A. G. The Lowery Road. Oxford: Blackwell, 1923. Original blue paper over boards, worn, blue cloth spine. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, and with a letter to Ottoline Morrell remarking that the book 'is in its way homage to Mr Yeats and all I learnt from him.' With 8 other books by the same author, PRESENTATION COPIES.

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STRONG, L. A. G. (1896-1958). Typescript memoir of visits to Garsington, dated 22 November 1932, 9 pages, 4to, published posthumously with revisions as part of the autobiographical Green Memory (1961). Occasional minor ink corrections. Pinned together with covering typed letter signed, 22 November 1932, 42 Brunswick Gardens, W.8, 1 page, 8vo, conceding 'There are several things about Garsington which are more easily talked about than written about'. RECOLLECTIONS OF W. B. YEATS AND BERTRAND RUSSELL, THE ASQUITHS, GOGARTY AND OTHERS. Strong had known Garsington in its most controversial period, during the First World War, when it became 'a sanctuary for those who did not think with the majority of their countrymen', and he would visit three times a term from Wadham College, Oxford. Later, he writes, it stood for freedom of thought and 'became a target for every sort of arrow, and the arrows were all the sharper because there was envy as well as dislike behind them'. Himself much influenced by Yeats, Strong recalls talking 'under a big tree' to Eliot, who told him 'Yeats' poetry is good because you could take any single line of it, test it on the scales, and find it full of weight.'

STRONG, L. A. G. Dublin Days. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1921. 16°. Original olive green wrappers with paper label, unopened. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Together with 2 autograph letters from Strong to Morrell.

STRONG, L. A. G. The Lowery Road. Oxford: Blackwell, 1923. Original blue paper over boards, worn, blue cloth spine. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, and with a letter to Ottoline Morrell remarking that the book 'is in its way homage to Mr Yeats and all I learnt from him.'

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