The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lönnrot (Oxford World's Classics Series)
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Noonday, 1968. Trade Paperback. Cover wear, page toning, and some inked notes in table of contents. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, January 1977. First Edition. Cloth. First/first {6 & 1/4' x 9'} In heavily edgeworn jacket with tears & creases. Front flap is not clipped. Off white cloth covered boards with gold lettering within a black rectangle along the spine edge. All four board fore-edge corners bumped &..... More
Vintage Book, 1959. Soft Cover. {4 & 1/2' x 7 & 1/4'} First Vintage mass market paperback edition. Red ink underlining . 3 different previous owner's names inked first inside page (rubber stamped, and handwritten in red and black ink). Foxing/dust stains front and rear cover. Heavy darkening of spine..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1996. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Previous owner price sticker present at rear cover; An excellent copy. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of..... More
Viking Books, February 2001. Hardcover. Alison Lurie is known for the sophisticated satire and Pulitzer-winning prose of her novels and stories. In Familiar Spirits, she lovingly evokes two true-life intimates who are now lost to her. In her signature mix of comedy and analysis Lurie recalls Merrill and his longtime..... More
Grove Press, January 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo with mild shelf wear, tape 'repairs', large ink stain bottom textblock edge toward spine base. Previous reader's name in ink & previous dealer's stamp on ffep. [200 pages]. More
Dufour Editions, March 1997. Trade Paperback. One of the most individual voices in Irish poetry today Selected Poems contains all of the poems Woods wanted published at this stage, gathered from his previous five collections, from 1970-1994. "It occurs to me that a life given to poetry is the true..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Before Helen Macdonald rose to international acclaim with her beautiful and nearly feral (New York Times) bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, she wrote a collection of poetry, Shaler's Fish. In robust, lyrical verse, Shaler's Fish roams both the outer and inner..... More
Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, 1972. First Edition. Paper Back. Mass market paperback. Light dust stains. [350 pages]. More
Macmillan Pub Ltd, October 1990. Paper Back. The aim of the series from which this book is taken is to delineate various critical approaches to specific literary texts. This is a study of the work of the Metaphysical poets through an analysis of style that is both formalist and historical..... More
Thames & Hudson, May 1986. Oversize Softcover. Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the most outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth. Many of his early poems - wistful, mysterious and suffused with Pre-Raphaelite imagery - are of haunting beauty. But in the early 1900s..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 1970. Trade Paperback. The seventeenth-century poets are almost without exception men of the world: their poetry is full of sensuous, scientific, and mundane images. But they are also religious men, fully aware of man's paradoxical situation between Heaven and earth. What these poets accomplish..... More
Routledge, March 1994. Paper Back. The first edition, by the late Edward Malins, of this informative guide to the life and works of one of the most important and difficult poets of the 20th century, has now been extensively revised by John Purkis. It begins by providing biographical details on..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced..... More
Vintage Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Houghton Mifflin & Co./ Riverside, January 1965. Paper Back. Octavo with shelfwear, soiling, creased corner. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [261 pages]. More
University of Chicago Press, January 1979. First Thus. Paper Back. Trad paperback with mild dust stains. Previous reader's name written in ink on half title page. [518 pages plus 34 pages of supplementary material.]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1996. Paper Back. "In the midst of our worst century so far we have produced a great poet." Those words by Elizabeth Bishop, a friend of Robert Lowell and a great poet in her own right, ring ever truer almost two decades after Lowell's..... More
Franklin Library, January 1981. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon marker. More
R.S. Means Company, 1997-06-01. Trade Paperback. More
Privately printed, January 1921. Hardcover. Number 51 of an edition limited to 990 copies. Plain blue boards in beige cloth back with gilt-titled maroon leather title label. Label is worn; moderately edgeworn, light foxing, and previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper, stamped on limitation page. More
Perivale Press, October 1976. Paper Back. Heavily dust stains, mostly marginal. Foxing & dust stains to textblock edges. Rear cover heavy damp staining fore-edge. In Latin & English. [59 pages]. More