Four issues of The English Review, August, September, October, November 1914, bound in one volume. Aleister Crowley contributes a poem "Chants Before Battle" to The English Review, No. 69, August 1914 & a poem "To America" to The English Review, No. 71, October 1914.
London: The English Review, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. viii + 528pp. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered red title-label on spine. A bound edition of The English Review, Volume XVIII (comprising four issues: August, September, October & November 1914). Bound without advertisements or wrappers. Aleister Crowley contributes a seven page piece, "Chants Before Battle," to the August 1914 issue. "Chants Before Battle," comprises a series of short patriotic poems written around the outbreak of the First World War, each in the style of a well-known poet (Chaucer, Tennyson, Browning, Shelley, Blake, et al) and each with the theme "We don't want to fight, but if we have do ...watch out." Crowley also contributes a six page patriotic poem, "To America," which he apparently originally wrote at the conclusion of the Spanish-American war to the October 1914 issue. Other contributions to the magazines include "August, 1914) by John Masefield, a section of essays on "The Kaiser's War," "Notes on Some of my Wanderings" by Arthur Symons, "The Philosophy of Revolt" by Joseph McCabe, a poem by Eden Philpotts, plus other articles and poems by various writers as well as a section of essays on "The War of Liberation." Spine & boards slightly rubbed & discolored, a few small bumps to edges, page-edges slightly discolored, minor foxing to endpapers, otherwise a tight, internally-clean VG copy. Item #45472
Price: $125.00