Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness
by Salska, Agnieszka
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0812212037
- ISBN 13
- 9780812212037
- Seller
-
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. This is a comparative study of the poetry of Whitman and Dickinson whose intent is to investigate the structure of each poet's imagination and to explorre the aesthetic consequences of their diverging responses to a single vision, that of the central consciousness, the artist's vision as responsible for organizing the universe; includes a letter from the publisher's managing editor to the previous owner, the poet Daniel Hoffman, a friend of the author, about the experience of working with the author; Hoffmann was the U.S. Poet Laureat in 1983-84 (green cloth with gold lettering on spine; dust jacket has slight crease on back flap; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore) . Revised. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005859
- Title
- Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness
- Author
- Salska, Agnieszka
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Revised
- ISBN 10
- 0812212037
- ISBN 13
- 9780812212037
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1985
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literary Criticism;
Terms of Sale
House of Our Own Books
Most book orders are shipped the same day or the next day, except on weekends.
About the Seller
House of Our Own Books
Biblio member since 2005
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
About House of Our Own Books
Our shop is located on two floors of a quiet, comfortable Victorian house on the edge of the University of Pennsylvania campus. The large stock of general and scholarly books is divided between new and used, and is well-organized and categorized. ** Only a very small fraction of our inventory is currently on the internet, so if you do not find what you are looking for, please contact us by phone or email to see if we have a copy in the store. ** CAUTION: If you use the large search box on this page you are searching OUR online inventory. If you use any other search box you may be searching the entire online inventory of ALL Biblio booksellers. Hours: Mon to Fri, 11:00 to 6:00 / Sat & Sun, 12:00-6:00
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...