(Finch’s first collection won the G-G Award for poetry; this is a rare signed; Oxford U Press, 1946)
(another G-G winner for poetry; Oxford, 1959)
(the above book was a very ltd. ed. of 100 signed copies)
(Finch’s unique poem-extrapolations on Matthew Arnold’s classic poem “Dover Beach”; Macmillan, 1961; promotional photo by Cavouk)
(a scarce signed letter and envelope)
Robert (Duer Claydon) Finch (1900-1995) was born in Long island, educated at the Sorbonne, and taught French for four decades at the University of Toronto. An intellectual poet, Finch was twice the winner of the Governor General’s Award for poetry. My favorite Finch poem is “Sampler”; I used his “Select Samaritan” in both eds. of Connections 2: Relating (Gage).