'O bitter love, O death' is full of sadness. Sad to say there are many who are 'drier than a crone'. Librarians have once more damaged my copy with their cardboard pockets, the ticket in the pocket, torn off what looks like a Magistrat Bad Oeynhausen railway luggage label, their issue label and other stamps which nevertheless give some indication of the 'Rezeption' of the poems. The book formed part of collection of the Army Study Centre Library, Bach Strasse, Bad Oeynhausen and was issued 6 times between April 1947 and November 1948. The ink stamping of The Sunday Times National Book Fund for H.M.Forces on the endpapers suggests that this was the source of funding to buy it for the library. What did the lenders think of the poems or was it just one who renewed it 5 times? originally a pa, Bad Oeynhausen became a focal point the British Zone of occupation just after World War II - wikipedia for an interesting article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Oeynhausen