Jerome: The Biography of a Poem.

NY: Grossman, 1971. First edition. 75 pp. Light foxing to top edge, else very near fine in dust jacket with wear to top and bottom edges, else near fine. With woodcuts and engravings by Albrecht Dürer. This is a pleasing and unusual book in that the reader gets to trace the genesis of a poem; the book reprints the work sheets and drafts leading up to the final version of one of Jarrell’s poems– ‘Jerome’–as well as illustrations that inspired the poet’s imagination. Also with an essay by Jarrell’s widow, Mary von Schrader Jarrell.