Robert Frost: A Collection of Critical Essays
Prentice-Hall, January 1962. Trade Paperback. 7TH PRINTING. More
Prentice-Hall, January 1962. Trade Paperback. 7TH PRINTING. More
Alice James Books, February 2024. Paper Back. Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot "It's not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout..... More
Burning Deck, January 2000. Paper Back. Poetry. Fourth in Burning Deck's Dichten = series of current German writing in English translation, REFT AND LIGHT presents a series of exuberant, playful language experiments by the well-known German poet. In an unusual twist, each poem is rendered in multiple English versions by..... More
Burning Deck, January 2000. Paper Back. Poetry. Fourth in Burning Deck's Dichten = series of current German writing in English translation, REFT AND LIGHT presents a series of exuberant, playful language experiments by the well-known German poet. In an unusual twist, each poem is rendered in multiple English versions by..... More
Macmillan and Co. Ltd., January 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. In dustjacket with mild stains and shelf wear. Front flap is not clipped. UK edition. Umber cloth covered boards with gold lettering. [183 pages]. More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1977. Trade Paperback. Minimal shelfwear. More
Modern Library, January 1951. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. In dustjacket with chipping, creases, darkening and a list of 322 titles on DJ verso. Flap is not clipped. Modern Library adjustment sticker affixed to front flap. Grey cloth with heavily darkened spine and thin line of marginal darkening. Dust staining and foxing..... More
Vintage, June 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. Robinson Jeffers was one of the most controversial poets of the twentieth century. In this volume, essential poems selected from his major works provide an excellent overview of Jeffers's style and the themes present throughout his work. Drawn from volumes published throughout his career..... More
Random House, January 1959. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in jacket with sun-tanned spine with darkened margins. Flap not clipped. Wide (non-clear) tape has been used to re-enforce and 'repair' jacket. Red brick cloth covered boards with silver lettering framed within black frame. Top textblock edge tinted grey. Random House colophon stamp..... More
Stanford University Press, April 2002. Trade Paperback. In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers--in spite of the almost total academic neglect..... More
Wave Books, April 2016. Reprint. Paper Back. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Winner of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Society of Midland Authors for Poetry 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry 2017 PEN/Jean Stein..... More
Unversity of pittsbugh, January 1977. Trade Paperback. Light foxing. More
White Rabbit, January 1968. Stapled Soft Cover. Much chipped & torn. At last account still holding on by one rusty staple. Scarce. More
Doubleday, January 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Darkened spine & margins; chipping & edgewear. Slanted spine. Gold lettering. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. More
Eyewear Publishing, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Over the last three years, Atlanta-based artist John Carroll has been on a journey of sharing a piece of blackout poetry with his social media followers every day. HIDDEN MESSAGES OF HOPE is a retrospective collection of his blackout poetry, along..... More
Coffee House Press, September 2022. Paper Back. Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses. In haunted poems glinting with laughter, Saeed Jones explores the public and private..... More
W. W. Norton, December 2005. Trade Paperback. In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a poignant nonlinear narrative, illustrates the..... More
Alice James Books, May 2016. Trade Paperback. Janine Joseph writes with an open and easy intimacy. The language here is at once disruptive and familiar, political and sensual, and tinged by the melancholy of loss and the discomforting radiance of redemption. A strong debut. --Chris Abani The best way to..... More
Viking Compas, April 1957. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Clean, sound, rubbing. Foxed edges. [63 pages]. More
Routledge and Kegan Paul, January 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. Octavo with missing dustjacket. Removal scars front and rear pastedowns. Top edge dust stained with faded 'Atlanta Public Library' stamp in red ink. [200 pages]. More
Indiana University Press, 1974. Paper Back. . . . gives us all sixteen of the satires in the tough, slashing manner of the original, unheard in Dryden and the few others who tried it. --Saturday Review. Octavo. Trade paperback. Underlining and side-notes. Large previous dealer's stamp fills the lower half..... More
Harcourt, October 1976. Trade Paperback. Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes the..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} 12mo. Well worn. Sticker residue front and back cover and verso to front cover. Previous owner's name written in ink first inside page. [196 pages]. More
RoR Publishing, March 2011. Trade Paperback. CD is included. More
all nations press, October 2003. Pamphlet. Stapled chapbook. More
Blackwell, 2005. Reprint. Paper Back. A Companion to Shakespeare is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, indeed for anyone with an interest in his plays. Contains 28 newly commissioned essays written by the most distinguished historians and literary scholars Situates Shakespeare in the historical and cultural conditions..... More
Andrews McMeel Publishing, December 2021. Hardcover. A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Rupi's long-awaited hardcover edition debuts exclusive poems and is beautifully clothbound..... More
Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2015. Trade Paperback. Watch rupi kaur live now on Prime Video. "Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade." - The New Republic #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse..... More
Dutton Adult, July 1972. Hardcover. Some minor chipping and creasing on the jacket. More
William Morrow & Company, November 1992. Hardcover. William Shakespeare's life has been the subject of innumerable myths, yet tantalizingly little is known about the motives, passions, conflicts, ideas, and struggles that shaped him. Now the first new biography of the Bard in ten years examines the life and work of..... More
Paul Dry Books, Inc., March 2004. Trade Paperback. John Keats is among the greatest English poets. (He himself imagined he would be counted so!) For some readers, his odes define the essence of poetry. We also discover in Keats a great composer of sonnets. Here, for the first time published..... More
Vintage Classics, December 2009. Trade Paperback. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, at the young age of 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works, is..... More
Belknap Press, 1982. Paper Back. Here is the first reliable edition of John Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: "The definitive Keats," proclaimed The New Republic--"An authoritative edition embodying the..... More
Modern Library, 1951. Trade Paperback. More
Everyman Ltd. Paper Back. More
Oxford University Press, July 2002. Trade Paperback. Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are "the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet." They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the..... More
Prentice Hall, January 1964. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo with sticker scar front cover and moderate wear. 10th printing. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [177 pages]. More
Lb May & Assoc Inc, January 1998. Trade Paperback. With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today..... More
Manic D Press, Inc., April 2002. Trade Paperback. Pop culture meets and mates with poetic formalism: whether he's writing about Captain America, Godzilla, abandoned babies, or hangovers, Keene's work is unexpected, smart and funny. Where Wile E. Coyote pays homage to George Santayana...or is it the other way around? More
Citadel Press, 1964. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Much worn paperback with rubbing with surface scars and edgewear. Previous owner's name stamp verso of front cover and on last textbook page. Cover design by Ron Fratell. [347 pages]. More
Graywolf Press, August 2000. Trade Paperback. In A Hundred White Daffodils - an enlightening and typically endearing collection of prose and poetry - the late author of five highly regarded books of verse reflects on her writing life, growing spirituality, passionate hobbies, and ultimately fatal struggle with leukemia. Jane Kenyon..... More
The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co., 1964. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. 5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'; Stapled pamplet. Ink underlined titles on litst of other Writers and Their Work pamplets rear cover panel recto and verso. Small doodle front cover. Mild toning..... More
Barnes & Noble/ Routledge & Kegan Paul, January 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. That same page is corner clipped. Mild foxing to edges. [180 pages]. More
Penguin USA (P), June 1989. Mass Market PaperBack. This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and..... More
University of Washington Press, 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. {4&3/4' x 7&3/4'} Heavy edgewear. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [68 pages]. More
Houghton Mifflin, November 2006. Hardcover. More
University of Chicago Press, July 1993. Paper Back. The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1965. Paper Back. This is a shortened and rearranged version of The Songs of Homer, Professor Kirk's vivid and comprehensive account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. His purpose remains the same: to develop a comprehensive and..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2008. Hardcover. Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch--"one of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times)--has established himself among the most controversial and fearless critics writing today. Sure..... More
Humanities Press, January 1976. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards and stamped gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name written in ink on ffep. [247 pages]. More
Scott Foresman & Co, January 1964. First Thus. Paper Back. {6' x 9'} Heavily worn at edges with creases and rubbing. Previous owner's name written in ink half title page. [163 pages]. More
Harper, March 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "John Koethe's The Constructor is a scrupulous, elegant account of the meditative intellect as an instrument continually registering the passage of time. Exquisitely modulated and brutally honest, these poems would be harrowing were they not so seductively beautiful. No one writing in this country..... More
HarperCollins, October 1997. Trade Paperback. "As a poet who is a teacher of philosophy, John Koethe knows better than most of us the uses and dissatisfactions of both disciplines, if indeed they are disciplines. In this ravishing and haunted book he comes face to face with the time when 'more..... More
HarperCollins, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and as antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can..... More
University California Press, April 1970. Soft Cover. Octavo with worn cover. Sticker residue front cover. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [180 pages]. More
New York University Press / University of London Press Limited, 1968. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Moderate wear to over. Rubbing. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [327 pages]. More
Atlantic Little Brown, 1975, January 1975. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length gently creased from use; Previous owner name present at front free-end page; Text free of markings; An excellent reading copy. More
Ecco, August 2023. Paper Back. From the author of the award-winning Tap Out - "a gritty, insightful debut" (Washington Post) - Edgar Kunz's second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America. Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection..... More
Copper Canyon Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. With this, his first collection of poetry, Stephen Kuusisto (author of the memoir Planet of the Blind) explores blindness and curiosity, loneliness and the found instruments of continuation. Exploiting the seeming contradiction of poetry's reliance upon visual imagery with Kuusisto's own sightlessness, these..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1995. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Douglas & McIntyre, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2023. Hardcover. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. These poems transport us from a clifftop in..... More
Hannau Robinson, Inc., 1969. Reprint. Cloth. Second printing. {7' x 9 & 1/2'} Green cloth covered quarto with gold lettering & decoration front board. Grey-green illustrated front and rear end pages.Previous owner's inscription verso of ffep. {44 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse--by..... More
Wave Books, October 2023. Paper Back. As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky's The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and imagined, inhabiting characters and spaces that have..... More
Viking Juvenile, May 1982. First Thus. Hardcover. Jacket quite chipped. More
Penguin, (1968). Mass Market PaperBack. Pages browning, but a tight, square, clean copy. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1989. Trade Paperback. Brings together 175 poems that reveal Lawrence's virtuosity in this genre. More
Chatto & Windus, 1961. Hardcover. shelf wear and corner bumping on dust jacket as would be expected from age; small tear on DJ at top of front by spine; another small tear on top back of DJ near spine; mild page yellowing in keeping with age; price clipped on inside..... More
Conduit Books & Ephemera, March 2020. Paper Back. Poetry. Winner of the Bronze Medal in the 2020 Florida Book Awards for Poetry. In her second poetry collection SACRIFICIAL METAL, Esther Lee's poems offer a meditation through the lens of dance and human movement about the quiet dignities and alienation of..... More
Vista Books, 1968. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. 3rd printing. Tiny sticker affixed verso front cover bottom right corner, reads: Published in the United States by Dufour Editions, Inc., Chester Springs, PA 19425. [47 pp.]. More
Routledge, March 1973. Paper Back. Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern linguistic analysis, and that linguistic and critical disciplines are not separate but complementary. Examining a wide range of poetry, Professor Leech considers many aspects of poetic style, including the..... More
New Directions, April 2024. Paper Back. Self-seeding wind is a wind of ever-replenishing breath. --from "The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering" The title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe..... More
University of Michigan Press, June 1992. Paper Back. Reflections on poetry by a critic and poet who is also a distinguished literary journalist. Previous owner's name. More
Knopf, January 1986. Paper Back. More
Holy Cow! Press, October 2007. Paper Back. "These aren't translations of Han-Shan's poems; they're transmissions of his spirit!"--Eric Utne, founder of Utne Reader "I love this book!"--Jim Moore In 1974, author James P. Lenfestey came upon the book Cold Mountain: 100 Poems of the T'ang Dynasty Poet Han-Shan, translated by..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2023. Hardcover. A New Yorker Essential Read of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School..... More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, October 1992. Paper Back. Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various--poetics, the imagination, politics, spirituality, other writers--and her approach independent minded and richly complex. Here in a single volume are recent essays..... More
St. Martin's Press, May 1997. Hardcover. Here in Eden Renewed, the renowned poet and biographer of Edward Lear and Alfred Tennyson, Oxford University professor Peter Levi, presents readers with an extraordinary portrait of John Milton (1608-1674). In this compelling and detailed work, Levi traces Milton's life from the young man..... More
Faber & Faber, March 1992. Trade Paperback. In 1944 Primo Levi was sent to Buna-Monowitz, a subsidiary of Auschwitz. His prose accounts of this time are now internationally regarded as classics. Yet for many of his readers, this will be the first opportunity to encounter Levi's poetic treatment of these..... More
Harvard University Press, 1965. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with tears. Front flap is clipped. Blush color spine with black lettering along edge. Boards covered in brick red colored cloth. Previous owner's name written in ink ffep. [164 pages]. More
Harvest Books, December 2002. Paper Back. You stranger, long before your glance can light Upon these words, time will have washed away The moment when I first took pen to write . . . An essayist, novelist, and poet, C.S. Lewis combines all of his talents in Narrative Poems. Even..... More
University Press of Washington D.C., July 1976. Cloth. Third printing. Octavo. In DJ with rubbing and darkening to verso of folds, spine & margins. Front flap is not clipped. Cherry red cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Mild tanning to end pages. Inked inscription by Ransom top of..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2015. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering..... More
Everyman's Library, April 1994. Hardcover. These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an act of the imagination as it is of the body. From fourth-century Li Ch'ung's -Parody of a Lover- to John..... More
Milkweed Editions, May 2021. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying--her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between..... More
Milkweed Editions, May 2022. Hardcover. An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limóoacute;n."I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers," writes Limón. "I..... More
Milkweed Editions, May 2022. Hardcover. An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limóoacute;n."I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers," writes Limón. "I..... More
Milkweed Editions, October 2010. Paper Back. The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion--both toward and away from us--and it is also full..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2015. Paper Back. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something..... More
Princeton University Press, June 1973. First Edition. Cloth. The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight essays are: "The Waste Land Fifty Years After," by A. Walton..... More
Library of Congress, January 1981. Stapled Soft Cover. More
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
Penguin Classics, January 1988. Trade Paperback. Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works--Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha--as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the..... 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