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MCINTYRE, James. Musings On The Banks of Canadian Thames, Poems on Local Canadian and British Subjects, and Lines on the Great Poets...
Ingersoll: Printed by H. Rowland, 1884. First edition, variant binding in red cloth (we have also seen this in green cloth, see previous entry). Tall 12mo., orig. red cloth decorated and stamped in gilt on the upper board, 128pp. Some marking to the upper board but certainly a very good, unworn copy. Watters p.127.
James McIntyre, Canadian poet of questionable talent was nicknamed ‘The Cheese Poet' as a result of his most famous poem, ‘Ode on a Mammoth Cheese' and other ‘cheese-themed' verse. No matter how many times I catalogue a book that contains this poem, I am unable to resist sharing at least the first stanza:
We have seen the Queen of cheese,
Laying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze--
Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
(And yes, it only gets worse from there!!!)
$400
MCINTYRE, James. Musings On The Banks of Canadian Thames, Poems on Local Canadian and British Subjects, and Lines on the Great Poets... Ingersoll: Printed by H. Rowland, 1884. First edition, variant binding in red cloth (we have also seen this in green cloth, see previous entry). Tall 12mo., orig. red cloth decorated and stamped in gilt on the upper board, 128pp. Some marking to the upper board but certainly a very good, unworn copy. Watters p.127.
James McIntyre, Canadian poet of questionable talent was nicknamed ‘The Cheese Poet' as a result of his most famous poem, ‘Ode on a Mammoth Cheese' and other ‘cheese-themed' verse. No matter how many times I catalogue a book that contains this poem, I am unable to resist sharing at least the first stanza:
We have seen the Queen of cheese,
Laying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze--
Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
(And yes, it only gets worse from there!!!)
$400
