Dante Called You Beatrice

Book club edition.  220pp.  Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine.  12no.  Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original, lightly shelf worn dust wrapper, bumped along edges and perhaps a tad faded.  

The episodic memoirs of the minor poet,  Paul Potts, a rather sad and forlorn character who spent much of his life on the fringes of  early 20th century Fitzrovia’s literary elite.  Although he never gave up, his poetry did not receive, then or now, the recognition that Potts’ yearned for.  His memoirs, however, he is deservedly remembered for – they are insightful and memorable, exposing his somewhat conflicted relationship with the Christian faith and containing a series of sketches of his encounters with literary greats such as George Orwell and Ignazio Stone.  Worth reading for the appreciative picture of George Orwell alone.