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Who is Stephen Gooden?

Portrait Photograph (1940s)

Stephen Gooden (1892-1955) illustrated deluxe signed editions of George Moore’s Ulick and Soracha (1926), The Brook Kerith (1929), and Peronnik the Fool (1933). He was slated to illustrate Madeleine de Lisle in 1933 when Moore suddenly died and the project ceased.

Dear Lady of my thoughts, dear
Lady Cunard, time turns all
things into analogues and symbols,
and in the course of the
years I have come to think of
you as an evening fountain under
embosoming trees. the fountain
murmurs, sings, exults; it welcomes
every coming minute; and
when the dusk deepens in the
garden and the gallants enfold
their ladies in scarves and veils
and the rout disperses, the
fountain sings alone the sorrows
of the water-lillies to the moon.

[signed in ink] George Moore