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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 128 pages. 7.00x4.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition, 1st printing (starts w/2). 528pp. Companion to the PBS Television series, Produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition (slight shelfwear to corners & edges, o/w unmarked). Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound, Moore, Eliot, Crane, Hughes, Bishop, Lowell, Plath. "The inexhaustible play of poetic language, in which each word has its weight and duration and musical note as surely as in a fugue, ensures that poems give off a different shimmer at different times to the same reader and certainly at the same time to different readers. What is always the same is the point, the concentration, the intensity of the form . . . The poets in this book have been admired by other poets for having so often exhibited all the virtues of poetry at one time. [] We have hoped by these essays to show these virtues at work, to suggest how much American culture owes to the formulating powers of these poets' minds, how much the American language owes to their preservation of its idiom, how much the world owes to them for representing American consciousness and American beauty in their lines. [] Though we cannot do full justice here to the beauty and power of the American imagination and the American language as they are embodied in the poetry of two centuries, we hope that these essays will bring new readers to some poets, will direct some readers to new poems, and will offer for all readers a view of the range and play of the American imagination, a sense of the complication, depth, and grandeur of American poetry."--From the Introduction by Helen Vendler, on the back cover. "An illustrated tie-in volume to the thirteen-part PBS series of the same title that aired in January 1988, featuring leading critics' essays on the major American poets. More than 175 black-and-white photographs." [publisher copy] "A college text and companion volume to a new PBS television series, this collection of essays on 13 American poets from Whitman to Plath is traditional in selection and treatment. Punctuated with poems and illustrated with photographs and manuscript facsimiles showing authors' revisions, the book seeks to explore the poets' 'American-ness' but often runs short of the historical, social, and biographical background needed for the task. Occasionally an essay presents a labored academic 'explanation' giving an entirely different and unnecessary reading from the common-sense reading most readers find enjoyable. But the many useful essays on [these canonical poets] make this a solid introductory guide."--Bettina Drew, City College, CUNY, Library Journal. Intact paper cover features Fred Marcellino's eagle/sky/quill illustration. Fine paperback is solid & unmarked, w/square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable. …

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Magazine. Octavo. 313pp. Perfectbound. Black and white illustrations. Light edgewear, near fine. Notable contributors include Seamus Heaney, Ross Feld, Helen Vendler, Sandra Gilbert, Vernon Young, Joan Retallack, Wright Morris, Richard Howard, Eliot Weinberger.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. INDISPENSABLE: ILLUMINATING: NEW Fist Edition hardcover (Orig. 2010) Unstated-Probable First Printing: NEW handsomely designed mylar-protected color jacket w/ IMPECCABLE edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW black-paper-over-boards cover w/ matching black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.72" onto front & back panels w/ sharp edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely silver-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn-perfect binding w/ tight signatures & black cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE coal-black end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ EXCEPTIONAL clarity on superb acid-free silk-finish archival paper * 6.56" x 9.50" x 1.28", 0.92 kg, xvi+540 (556) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, & many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in "The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets", she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic & imaginative features of the poems. In selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, "from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath". Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex & less often anthologized poems. Taken together, Vendler's selection reveals Emily Dickinson's development as a poet, her astonishing range, & her revelation of what Wordsworth called "the history and science of feeling". In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance w/ Dickinson the writer, "the inventive conceiver & linguistic shaper of her perennial themes". All of Dickinson's preoccupations--death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought--are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize the poet's startling imagination & the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as "a master" of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy & power. "Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries" will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages." -Seamus Heaney " "There is just no way of summarizing a critic as subtle & meticulous as [Vendler]." -Marilyn Butler * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HELEN VENDLER was A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, and was long established as among our finest critics and teachers of poetry. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this EXCELLENT copy for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING.NEAR FINE HARDBACK IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAPPER.SOME PAGE EDGE BROWNING DUE TO CHEAP PAPER.APPEARS UNREAD (BOTH 72).

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Premier issue. Octavo. vi, 216pp. A trifle worn and soiled, about fine. Contributions by Ashbery, Creeley, Milosz, Bidart, Brock-Broido, Foster Wallace ("How Don Gately Found God"), Drummond de Andrade, and many others, as well as several dozen reviews, including Heaney on Milosz, David Foster Wallace on Kathy Acker, Tony Hoagland on Michael Blumenthal, and Donald Hall on Michael Longley.…

Unbound. Condizione: Fine. Publication announcement. Small octavo. Two unstapled sheets, folded to make 8pp. Fine. Prints two example pages from the upcoming book, which was done in a limited run of 200 numbered copies.

Limited edition. 160 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Barry Moser; 8vo (9.75 x 6.75 inches), blue cloth boards with dark blue morocco bands at top and bottom of covers, title embossed in silver across the leather bands, matching cloth slipcase. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Printed letterpress in Monotype Goudy and Goudy Open on the same Barcham Green handmade paper used in (actually left over from) the Arion Press edition of Moby Dick. The leather bands across the covers were also from remnants of the leather used for Moby Dick, the intention being to create a companion volume to that earlier work from the Press. Barry Moser's portrait of Melville depicts the author at an advanced age. Edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies, this #40. Frontispiece autographed by Barry Moser. Previous woner's small exlibris label on front free endpaper, else fine. …

Hardcover with slipcase. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine slipcase. Limited Edition. Small square 4to. Pp. 154, index of first lines. Brown Morocco-backed silk brocade boards, matching slipcase with paper spine label, fore edges untrimmed. Number 90 of an edition limited to 200. Hand set in Bulmer type and letterpress printed on Hahnemühle linen paper. An exquisite book production, worthy of Shakespeare's poetry.…