Poetry
Collected Poems
Knopf, February 2001. Reprint. Cloth. The publication of James Merrill's "Collected Poems" is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His "First Poems" its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took..... More
Joyce: Collected
Viking Compas, April 1957. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Clean, sound, rubbing. Foxed edges. [63 pages]. More
The Permanence of Yeats, Selected Criticism
Macmillan Company, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering & devices along spine. Worn edges. Heavily worn corners: bumped & bent. Scuff marks. Stray markings and soiling likewise here and there. Previous reader's name and a date in blue ink on ffep..... More
Pomes [i.e. poems] for James Joyce
Malton Press, January 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Poems, 1957-1967 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Wesleyan, June 1978. Soft Cover. Classic poems from a famous American poetThis volume represents, under one cover, the major work of the man whom critics and readers have designated the authentic poet of his American generation. For this collection, James Dickey has selected from his four published books all those..... More
Selected Poems 1946-1985
Random House Inc, May 1995. Paper Back. This new Selected Poems replaces an earlier selection of work by James Merrill entitled From the First Nine (1982), now out of print; it includes 121 poems taken from that work and from Late Settings (1985), but it excludes the long narrative poem..... More
Modern Poetry after Modernism
Oxford University Press, November 1997. Trade Paperback. In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential breakthrough narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse..... More
Versification: A Short Introduction
Michigan State University Press, June 1985. Trade Paperback. Second Printing; spine is moderately sun faded but still legible; some light corner bumping, shelf wear and rubbing; name written in ink on front free end page. More
Recitative: Prose
North Point Press, November 1986. First Thus. Paper Back. {6' x 9'} First paperback with previous reader reader's name written on first inside page. [202 pages]. More
Critical Essays on James Merrill (Critical Essays on American Literature Series)
G.K. Hall & Co. / Prentice Hall International, June 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Covers the works of Pulitzer Prize--winning poet James Merrill (1926--1995). Octavo without dustjacket. Complete number line. First/first. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Tight binding. Previous reader's name inked on ffep. [251 pages]... More
Robert Frost: A Collection of Critical Essays -- S-TC-3 (Twentieth Century Views)
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo with moderate wear. Previous reader's name written in ink first inside page. [205 pages plus three page list of 20th Century Views titles] 15th printing. More
The Collected Poems of James Agee
Ballantine Books, September 1970. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market copy. [232 page + four page list of Ballantine titles then available]. More
Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love
Bloomsbury Paperbacks, September 2016. Paper Back. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen..... More
Robert Frost: an Introduction: Poems, Reviews, Criticism
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, January 1966. Paper Back. Octavo. Worn edges. Mild tanning to spine. Previous owner's name in ink half title page and another name that is marked over on same page. At the end of text there are 3 pages entitled 'Topics for Papers' with all sorts of..... More
Century of Sonnets
State House Press, July 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. A seventy-year collection of poetry from the pen of one of America's greatest storytellers. His final book, published in celebration of his 90th birthday, contains approximately one hundred of Michener's charming sonnets. Seventy-years worth of poetry, published 'in celebration of James A...... More
Poems 1957-1967 (06932)
Collier Books, 1968. Reprint. Paper Back. 2nd Collier paperback printing. Clean, sound, with mild wear to cover edges. Interiors unmarked, no underlining, no side-notes, etc. (299 pages). More
Drowning With Others Poems (author's 1st book )
Wesleyan Univ Press, Conn, January 1962. Hardcover. Fifh printing (1967). Endpapers foxed; jacket darkened, chipped and clipped. More
Robert Frost: A Collection of Critical Essays
Prentice-Hall, January 1962. Trade Paperback. 7TH PRINTING. More