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Heywood
A PARABLE OF THE SPIDER AND THE FLIE, Made by John Heywood
Tho. Powell, 1556
26400,00 €
Buddenbrooks Inc.
(Newburyport, États-Unis d'Amérique)
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Edizione: very rare first and only edition, with very fine provenance, the abel berland copy, and a very rare book. <br> interpretations of this, the most famous of tudor poems, abound. heywood himself, who took twenty years to finish the spider and the flie, didn't know quite what to make of it when it was finally completed. whomever (or whatever) the spiders and the flies were supposed to represent (the prevailing critical interpretation has the spiders as the protestant monarchy and the flies as the persecuted catholics, heywood clearly has the flies as underdogs, and he roots for them throughout. <br> since the political weather in england during the period of heywood's composition was arguably the stormiest in the nation's history, it isn't surprising that the poem is difficult to interpret. he may have simply kept adjusting his loyalties, depending on whomever was being oppressed. one thing is certain, though—heywood was forever loyal to mary (who is represented by the maid with the broom in the last series of woodcuts). when elizabeth accessed, heywood fled to the brabant, where he died in the 1580s. aside from the spider and the flie, heywood's literary legacy includes books of epigrams and proverbs, a half-dozen plays, and a volume of collected works (which does not include the present poem), all of which were popular and often reprinted. heywood was a distant cousin to thomas more, and grandfather of john donne. <br> ".the illustrations and decorations as well as the general typographical excellence make this book outstanding among english work of the time," —william a. jackson; catalogue of the pforzheimer collection, 1940. <br> very rare. before this copy came to market, only the houghton copy had appeared at auction in the last quarter century (in the houghton sale in 1979 and again in 1995, both christie's, london). abel berland, along with robert hoe, and j. r. abbey, was a foremost collector of english literature in the 20th century, the sale of his library realized over $14 million.