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Permit Me Voyage
Me Voyage
Permit
By James Agee
With a foreword by
Archibald MacLeish
by James Agee
Stephen Vincent Benét, the
Editor of the Tale Series of
With a foreword by Archibald Mac Leish
Pownger Pocts, says of this
thirty-third volume, "It seems
to me, on all counts, as promis-
ing a first book as we have yet
had in the Yale Series." In
his foreword, Archibald Mac-
Leish writes, "I find Agee's
first book of more interest than
Here is both beauty and
fine music
any first book of poems I have
seen for a long time.... The
book achieves an integral and
inward importance altogether
independent of the opinions
and purposes of its author.
What is always presented in
the first work of any true artist
is not an accomplishment but
an instrument. The instru-
indignation
and a sharp, fertile origi-
nality of mind.
Stephen Iincent Benét
ment which has been exercised
in the making of these poems
is one which is capable of en-
during work."
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
New Haven Connecticut
