Dover Publications, June 1995. Trade Paperback. Regarded by a contemporary as a "brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature," William Blake (1757-1827) is today recognized as a major poet and artist. This collection of 104 poems, carefully chosen by noted Blake scholars David and..... More
Anchor Press / Doubleday, January 1974. First Thus. Soft Cover. Oblong paperback. Published simultaneously in paperback and hardcover. Creased wrapper corners. Dog-eared lower right corner, first 16 pages, thereabout. Dust stains and mild soiling to cover. Previous owner's name, a date, and location in 3 colors of ballpoint. Slight cock..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist. His..... More
Chelsea House Pub, January 1987. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo with dustjacket glued to rear pastedown. Ex-library 'withdrawn because' stamp, stamped to last page of textblock. Rear free end page has been scissored from book. Number sticker affixed to rear pastedown. Black marker scribble top textblock edge. [182 pages]. More
Chelsea House Pub, January 2003. Library Binding. Each Volume, Covering Three To Six Poems, Includes: - User's guide- Editor's note and introduction by Harold Bloom- A comprehensive biography of the poet- Detailed thematic analysis of each poem- Extracts from major critical essays that discuss important aspects of each poem- A...... More
Perennial, May 1994. Trade Paperback. The latest collection of poems by the acclaimed author of Iron John. In this first gathering of all-new work in nine years, Bly enters the political landscape, speaking of the greed that has firmly established itself in this country since the Reagan/Bush years. More
HarperCollins, May 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. "The poems of The Night Abraham Called to the Stars mark the ripening of a new current in Bly's career: Now in his mid-70s, he is writing with tremendous energy and clarity and force, and producing some of the best work of his long..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2001. Hardcover. These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging human love. They are not figures in a love poem. Time is their..... More
Turtle Point Press, April 2000. Hardcover. "Committed to Memory" is a collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particularly intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them. The poems, which embrace a wide variety of genres, structures and patterns, include..... More
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
La Presse, November 2006. Trade Paperback. In Wolftrot, Marie Borel turns the eternal metaphor of the sea voyage on its ear: here, the fleet is literal, and they're literally (and literarily) lost. Afficionado of pun and double entendre, Borel interweaves vignettes and character sketches with extended lyric dér Pglements de..... More
University of Chicago Press, October 1988. Paper Back. Be influenced by as many great writers as you can, said Ezra Pound. Pound was an assimilative poet par excellence, as George Bornstein calls him, a writer who more often adhered to a . . . classical conception of influence as benign..... More
Prentice-Hall, January 1963. Paper Back. Octavo. Well worn wrapper. Rubbing & worn corners. Sticker residue/fragment front cover panel. Previous owner's name in ballpoint first inside page. Clean, bright, unmarked interior pages. [181 pages plus two page list of Twentieth Century View titles formerly available.]. More
Alan Swallow, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} In tan paper jacket with black lettering. Worn & flaking along spine. Darkened margins. Sun bleached flaps. Ochre cloth covered boards with black lettering. Tanned/darkened end pages with non-authorial inscription written in ink ffep. [48 pages]. More
Oxford Paperbacks, May 1961. Trade Paperback. As is. Bumped at the bottom of the spine, edge wear. More
Oxford University Press, December 1992. Paper Back. In 1880 Nietzsche observed that Goethe had been "not just a good and great man, but an entire culture." The author of Faust, of exquisite lyric poetry, and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, and poetry as well as treatises on..... More
Peter Owen Publishers, June 2009. Paper Back. When Philip Larkin's "letters" were published in 1992, the poet's enemies seized on the new disclosures with a frenzy unseen since the McCarthy era. What hadpreviously been regarded only as potential inclination hinted at in his poemsmisogyny and xenophobia in particularwere now indisputable..... More
University of California Press, February 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. This is a major new selection of Samuel Johnson's best work, delightfully introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and scrupulously annotated by Frank Brady and Mr. Wimsatt.Samuel Johnson, the only writer in English since the Renaissance to give his name to a...... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Origially published 1960 by Doubleday & Co. Chipping & edgewear with mildly leaning spine. Large dark damp stain midway on textblock fore-edge and soaking into large splotch on back panel of wrapper. Affecting interior pages from 95 onward. [233 pages & five page..... More
Liveright, November 2014. Hardcover. Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among so many other works. However, Brecht was also a...... More
University of Michigan, 1962. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Viking / Compass Books, 1959. Reprint. Soft Cover. Third printing, September, 1959. Octavo. Well worn cover at edges and spine folds. Starting to tear at top & bottom along the fold, Sightly cocked spine. Previious reader's name in ink first inside. [303 pages]. More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. No dustjacket. Foxing. Signed & inscribed by John Malcolm Brinnin front free end page. 73 pages. More
University of Minnesota Press, January 1967. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. Second Printing. Stampled Pamphlet with wear along spine. Two Staples. [47 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, March 1972. Paper Back. In this, the first introductory volume of the Cambridge Milton for Schools and Colleges, Professor Broadbent, the general editor of the series, presents background and introductory material essential to students for a proper understanding of Paradise Lost. Chapters on mythology, the epic, the..... More
