Search Results: Literature: Poetry from The Owl at the Bridge

"Questa antologia della nuova poesia italiana segue, a distanza di qualche anno, un libro dello stesso genere, ora esaurito, (Antologia della poesia italiana contemporanea, voll. 2, Vallecchi editore, Firenze, 1946), ma non ne vuol essere la ripetizione né l'aggiornamento. Si tratta di un libro nuovo..." (Premessa). 418 pages, [3] pages of publisher's advertising at end; 23.5 cm. Soft cover; pages toned, darkened; cover edges rough, bottom rear corner chewed away (not affecting text); typed front-cover label added; a few light pencil notes; still a useful copy. Stock#ofc0708.

[Philadelphia] American Society for Aesthetics, 1947. Periodical. OFFPRINT from Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism 6: 2, Dec. 1947, pp. 161-171. Inscribed to distinguished hispanist Alan S. Trueblood. Good+, wrappers sunned. Stock#47488.

Dutton, NY, 1974. D 301. 'First Edition'. Soft Cover. xx, 328 p., indexes; 21 cm. Title continues: together with 150 illustrative texts from English, American, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Portuguese, Polish, Modern Latin, Czech, Croatian, and Russian poetry, in the original languages and accompanying English translations. Chapters: Definitions (The Meaning of Baroque; Baroque and Mannerism); Historical Background (Religious and Political; Scientific and Philosophical); Some Basic Assumptions About the Barique Age; General Remarks on Baroque Literature (Baroque as an Expression of an Age; Baroque Poetic Theory and Style); The Universality of the Baroque Experience: Travels, Translations, Influence; Supplementary Bibliography, p. 140-146; Texts: The World of the Spirit (Religious & Mystic Poetry; Meditative Poetry (Mutability, Transitoriness, Time, Death); The World of the Senses (Amatory Poetry)). Paper; edges foxed; VG. stock#45808.

New York, Grove Press [1961]. Soft Cover. 192 p. illus. 18 cm. Series: Evergreen profile book, 22. Biography of Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867. Bibliography of books in English. Translation of Baudelaire par lui-même (1952) Stock# 40,989. Vg / paper.

Copper Beech Press [Providence RI] 1968. Twenty-nine poems, some previously published. "I am rowing with one arm, with the other blowing / kisses to the sharks who slide the toothed / curse of themselves so easy through / these rough seas. I am trying hard to love them; the rapt / thrashings of their feeding orgies..." (title poem). Soft cover; 48 pages; paper; new, gift quality. Stock#25690x/h.

First published 1930, Princeton. Translation "based on Hecker's text as published in his Boccaccio-Funde, Brunswick, 1902, from an autograph which embodies Boccaccio's latest known revisions of his text". Softcover. 214 pages, index; 20.5 cm.; spine & cover edges browned; occasional copious pencil underlining & notations; good. stock#3036/h.

Born in Marburg to German-Jewish physicians, the poet migrated with her family to China during the Nazi era, living in Wuhan during the Japanese occupation. Poems include E-Mail to Hankow, Fifth Birthday in Kuling, Mosquito Net, Amah Curses Fate, Swedish Christmas in China, December Eighth 1944, Return Trip-- 1999. She now lives in New Hampshire. Softcover. 21 pages, 20 poems. Stapled in blue pictorial paper; New; signed. Artwork by Donna Bruhl. Stock#27271x/h.

Two bookseller catalogues: Dawsons, 513 items plus 111 broadside items. Miller, 310 items including a Mark Van Doren collection and a section of Little Magazines. Both in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0286.

Thirty-six poems numbered I-XXXVI. Slocum, J. J. & H. Cahoon, Bibliography of James Joyce A6 (see note). "The only published book of poetry by James Joyce." "Publisher's Note [third preliminary leaf]: This is the only American edition of Chamber Music that is authorized by Mr. Joyce." Second, "Authorized" American edition, with reset type. Originally published in 1907 by Elkin Mathews; in 1918 by Huebsch. A pirate American edition of Boston 1918 exists as well.) Bound in black boards with gold lettering across the top of the front cover; loss of most of the spine, chipping at tips of corners; 4-line ink inscription on first flyleaf; internally clean; Good. Stock#ofc0688.4 preliminary leaves, [36] pages; 19.5 cm.

New York, Vintage Books, 1957, [c1927]. Soft Cover. xiv, 229, ix p. 18.5 cm. Series: A Vintage book, K-47. The 1925 Charles Eliot Norton lectures ( the first given). English poetry as influenced by Classical poets. Stock# 40,072. Good, some ink annotations in early portion, paper.

Éditions de l'Abeille d'Or, Paris [1926]. A tiny pocket book, with a brief introduction by L. L. Soft Cover. 158 pages, portrait frontispiece by Félix de Gray; color pictorial paper covers, 11.5 cm. Some scuffing, red crayon initials on title-page, good. Stock#29546.

Chicago Uni. Press [c1955]. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Soft Cover. Alcestis, Translated by Richmond Lattimore. The Medea, Translated by Rex Warner. The Heracleidae, Translated by Ralph Gladstone. Hippolytus, Translated by David Grene. Translator's introduction to each play. ix, 221 p., 20 cm.; orange pictorial paper covers; VG. 31512.

Several haiku per page; rather nice woodcuts. Softcover. 4 leaves, 78, [1] pages, 11 illustrations including frontispiece; 15 x 23 cm.; blue paper wrappers stamped in gold; New. stock#27476/h.

Philadelphia, Poetry Publishers, 1932. Hard Cover. 68 p.; 21.5 cm. The author, a Wellesley alumna, was from South Carolna, and living in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, when this was written. The poems reflect these locations and her extensive travels. Blue cloth boards, paper spine & front-cover labels. Stock# 30,167.VG./ pictorial dj worn, torn at top of front; American literature, poetry/verse.

New York, Book of the Month Club/The American Past, 1980. Eleven Moser wood engravings. A grand epic of the Civil War but, as MacLeish points out, much more. It is poetry that has stood the test of time as it weaves people and events in compelling verse. This elegant book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the poem in 1928. Hard Cover. xvii, 360 pages, 2 leaves. Fine/ dj fine/ slipcase fine. Stock#100703/house.

Paris, H. Champion, 1921. Troisième édition revue par Lucien Foulet. Les Classiques Français du Moyen Äge. Soft Cover. iii, 36 pages, glossaire; paper; pages darkened, loose, covers chipped, ink owner name on t-p. Stock#34412.

Contents: Poetry: Joshua Epstein, Please Do Not Smoke; Chester Kuhn, Moon Riffle on Flowing River; Mary Butts, Two Poems; Norman Lewis Dodge, Portrait of Eighty Years; Yvor Winters, Nocturne; Prose: g a p, Gesture; Henry de Montherlant, Peyrony; Book Reviews (5); Lorente, Curious Books; Henri Pauens, On A Funeral For A Few Sticks. 32 pages; 26.5 cm.; dark-blue printed wraps; minor edgewear; Good+. Stock#ofc0186cx.

Le Livre de Poche 677 [Librairie Générale Française, c1972]. Contents include Spleen et idéal (77 poems); Fleurs du mal (12); Révolte (3); Le vin (5); La mort (3); 1861 (Fin de la mort) (3); [Suite à] Spleen et idéal (22); Tableaux Parisiens (10); 1866-- Les épaves (16); 1868 (12); "Intruses" (2); Fragments et reliques (3); Notes de Baudelaire; Projets de préfaces; Notices et notes; Chronologie. Hard Cover. xliii, 400 pages; 16.5 cm. Pictorial paper covers; VG+. Stock#36920.

New Haven, Yale University Press [1959? c1952]. Soft Cover. [ix], 102, [2] p.; 20 cm. "It would seem almost that Roy Campbell was born to write this explosive little book. He himself has so many of the romantic qualities that he finds, or imagines that he finds, in Federico García Lorca-- the dash, the gallantry, the Andalusian mixture of raw living and mysticism, and above all, the poetry-- that one could scarcely imagine a happier coincidence of author and subject. Much of this expectation is fulfilled" (Dudley Fitts). Stock#45788. Good+, cover and some pages spotted.

Bloomington, Indiana UP [1962].. Soft Cover. xiv, 401 p., index; 20 cm. The Roman myths told in poetical form."Ovid is, after Homer, the single most important source for classical mythology." Stock# 33,304x. Vg/ paper. Another copy, also vg, but a very few ink underlinings. Classical Roman literature.