Dark Weeping
London: Faber and Faber, 1929. 8vo. [13] pages. Two full-page designs by Paul Nash. Original printed boards. Slightest shadow to front board, minimal wear at extremities. A very good copy of this fragile publication. Item #402521
LIMITED ISSUE, number 276 of 400 copies on large-paper and case bound, signed by AE. Nash's mystical plate is hand-colored. This is no. 19 of the Ariel Poems series. Russell adopted the nameAE from AE on signifying the lifelong quest of man. A Dublin-born author, critic, and painter, AE met Yeats through Joyce in 1902 and practiced theosophy and mysticism throughout his adult life. He claimed to be clairvoyant and conversant with spiritual beings, which he illustrated in his paintings and drawings. Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, 1980: "By choosing here to illustrate a poem by AE, Nash came closer than anywhere previously to affirming his allegiance to the Platonic incarnation myth. [The frontispiece] seems to presage Yeat's proposition made in 1931: 'What is water but the generated soul?'" (p. 169).
Price: $400.00