Withering of the Fig Leaf

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front cover of "Withering of the Fig Leaf"

Source: Bruce Peel Library

Withering of the Fig Leaf

Author:

Geoffrey Taylor

Publication Date:

1927

Genre:

Poetry

Language:

English

Publisher:

The Hogarth Press

Woolmer (55) notes that this book was printed and distributed for review before Taylor asked that it be withdrawn, as the poet feared that the collection's anti-Catholicism would endanger his job as a Carnegie librarian. It was to be Taylor's first collection of poems.