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Moskva, Obshchestvo rasprostraneniya poleznykh knig, 1901.First Russian separate book edition with Hood's verses.Rare.The book contains 7 verses: The Bridge of Sighs; The Song of the Shirt; The Lady's Dream; The Lee Shore; The Dream of Eugene Aram; The Lay of the Laborer; A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months.For the first time Hood's poem, The Song of the Shirt, was published in magazine Sovremennik (№ 9, 1860). However, the poem was interpreted as 'politically dangerous' and was banned, especially among young people.OCLC locates one copy of this edition in USA only: in the UC Berkeley Libraries.