William Cowper's "A Fable" by André Chaves at the Clinker Press · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: William Cowper's "A Fable" by André Chaves at the Clinker Press
Description: 2011? "A Fable," broadside designed and printed by hand on handmade paper by André Chaves. "Another Poet's version of The Raven presented to the Zamorano Club." Clinker Press. 10¼" x 16". $80 from Oak Knoll Books, Oct., '21.

In 2011 Chaves at the Clinker Press produced a version of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven." Might this broadside of Cowper's poem have been a companion piece? Dramatic work on a poem surrounded by a repeated printer's design involving a raven. The fable is about a mother raven who fears for her newly laid eggs in the storm and is then relieved -- only to have "neighbour Hodge" come the next morning to steal the eggs to give to his girlfriend. "Fate steals along with silent tread, found oft'nest in what least we dread."
Source: $80 from Oak Knoll Books, Oct., '21.
Date: 2011?
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