"When I Went to the Circus," contained in THE DIAL Volume LXXXVI № 5.
Camden & New York: The Dial, May 1929. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black.
iv,[3],362-450,viii pp. Plates. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine copy.
Lawrence's poem, which appears on pages 383-84, examines the modern reaction to bodies at play in its first appearance in print. Other notable writers and artists who appear in this issue are Yoné Noguchi, Lola Ridge, Carl Sprinchorn, Pablo Picasso, Kenneth Burke, Witter Bynner, Mary Butts, Padraic Colum, Conrad Aiken, and others.
"From September 1920, until July 1929, the last issue of THE DIAL, thirty of Lawrence’s works appeared in twenty-five issues of this brilliant magazine founded by Scofield Thayer. THE DIAL affected the course of Lawrence’s later life. Thayer induced Lawrence to write Sea and Sardinia; Mabel Dodge Sterne (later Luhan) read Sea and Sardinia in THE DIAL, and persuaded Lawrence to come to America. Marianne Moore, Thayer's successor, unwittingly helped Lawrence get his final volume of verse, Pansies, past British postal censors." -- Joost & Sullivan, 1970.. Item #645
ROBERTS C186.
Price: $45.00