Preface to the Faerie Queene
Focus, April 1990. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Poetry
The Romantic Poets (N238)
The Norton Library, January 1964. Trade Paperback. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Moderate wear to cover with superficial creasing, edgewear and toning. Previous owner's name inked and a previous dealer's large rubber stamp compete for space first inside page. [200 pages plus five page list of available Norton titles.]. More
Penguin Classics Collected Poems
Penguin Classic, September 1995. Paper Back. A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a widely-read poet in his time. When he published his first volume, A Shropshire Lad, in 1896, it was at his own expense. But the blend of nostalgia for the pastoral idylls of the pre-Industrial era, and fervent eulogy of..... More
A Shropshire lad
Folio Society, January 1986. First Thus. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy gray cloth boards w/ black design/lettering at front and spine; Text free of markings; Slipcase present, mildly worn from handling; An excellent copy. More
French symbolist poetry: An anthology (French and English Edition) -- A Midland Book MB 250
Indiana University Press, 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. First Midland edition. Octavo in trade paperback with edgewear. Previous owner's name written in black ballpoint & previous dealer's stamp both on half title page. In French & English, [280 pages]. More
The Idea of the Canterbury Tales
University of California Press, April 1978. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First/first US paperback. Previous owner's name written in ink, first inside page. Complete number line. [403 pages]. More
Seven American Poets in Conversation (Between the Lines)
Waywiser Press, February 2009. Paper Back. An exciting new collection of in-depth interviews with seven important American poets. Interviewees include Ashbery. Hall, Hecht. Justice, Simic. Snodgrass, and Wilbur. An informative, entertaining, candid and occasionally surprising panopticon of a book. More
Babylon in Jar CL: Avail in Paper
Houghton Mifflin, December 1998. Hardcover. These diverse poems of past and present, of order and disorder, press on with the forceful explorations that Andrew Hudgins began with his first book, Saints and Strangers, a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. Since then, his poetry has probed the nature of..... More
Dream Keeper: And Other Poems
Alfred A. Knopf, December 1996. Trade Paperback. Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after "The Dream Keeper" was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational..... More
Crow (Faber Poetry)
Faber & Faber, September 2001. Trade Paperback. More
New Selected Poems
HarperCollins Publishers, March 1982. Trade Paperback. As is. Foxing and small remainder mark on the edges of the print block. More
Selected poems, 1957-1967
Harper & Row, January 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' X 9 & 1/2'} In edgeworn jacket with clipped flap. Half inch rough hewn tear bottom edge of rear jacket panel and yet another similar tear at top of spine. Jacket spine darkened by sun. Black end papers. Splash..... More
The Essential Shakespeare Vol 17 (Essential Poets)
PerfectBound, January 1993. First Thus. Paper Back. For that very specific and historically brief situation within the theater, Shakespeare invented a language that is somehow closer to the vital, expressive life of English, still, than anything set down since. The harder one looks at it the odder this seems. The..... More
Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally
Wesleyan University Press, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Assembling Alternatives brings together five English-speaking communities -- the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland and Australia -- to discuss how national differences have inflected poetic experimentation. The 24 essays provide historic overviews, close readings, personal views and polemics on poetics as they have developed..... More
Lycidas and the Italian Critics
Yale Univ Pr, February 1979. Hardcover. Gilt-decorative red cloth. More
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Tempest and Other Late Romances (Approaches to Teaching World Literature series
Modern Language Association, 2001. Reprint. Paper Back. Now at sixty-four volumes, the MLA's popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to the teaching of the..... More
Paradise Lost
George Allen & Unwin, January 1982. Paper Back. {5 & 1/4 x 8 & 1/2'} Previous owner's name inked first inside page. [213 pages]. More
Chaucers World Pictorial Companion
Cambridge University Press, July 1967. Oversize Softcover. As is. Small Christmas sticker on the front cover. More
Practical Criticism: A Study Of Literary Judgment (HB 16)
Harvest / Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Some scattered ink underlining & marginal notes. Darkened spine. More
Parts of the Mass
Burning Deck, January 2007. Paper Back. Poetry. Winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award, selected by Thylias Moss. Catherine Imbriglio's first collection of poems PARTS OF THE MASS uses the Mass as a framework for her own stunningly original poems. Here we have language of the internal juxtaposed with..... More
Inquire Within
HarperOne, March 2020. Hardcover. Contemplating universal issues of love, loss, forgiveness, transformation, and belief, Inquire Within shines a light on our lives and provides a wholly unique and dynamic lens through which to think about ourselves and our world. Rhythmic. Original. Authentic. Inspiring. A journey to the center of the..... More
The Intent On: Collected Poems, 1962-2006 (Io Poetry Series)
North Atlantic Books, December 2009. First Edition. Cloth. ***Winner of Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as..... More
The Background of Modern Poetry: Six provocative essays on the sources and accomplishments of contemporary poetry
E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., January 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback with sun bleached spine. Rubbing/creasing to cover. Clear tape reinforcement to spine.[116 pages]. More
People One Ought to Know
Olympic Marketing Corp, December 1982. Hardcover. Later printing. Clipped jacket. More
Commentary on the Sonnets of G.M. Hopkins (Revised)
Loyola Press, April 1997. Trade Paperback. First published in 1969, Milward's "A Commentary On The Sonnets Of G.M. Hopkins" has-become a classic of Hopkins criticism. In the tradition of Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton, Jesuit poet Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote a series of acclaimed metaphysical and religious, personal and..... More
