LIVES OF THE POETS: THE STORY OF ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN POETRY

by Untermeyer, Louis

1st Edition

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Book description: NY: Simon & Schuster, 1959 Second Printing. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt medallion on cover, marbled endpapers. 8vo. 757, (1) pp. Thirty chapters and one hundred and thirty-three individual poets are included in this far-reaching history of English and American poetry from its sources to the present day. Some authors profiled in this book are Beowulf, Chaucer, Langland, Gower, Sir Walter Raleigh, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cowley, Lovelace, Dryden, Cowper, Gray, Blake, Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Whittier, Longfellow, Poe, Whitman, Yeats, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, Edith Sitwell, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and many more. Former owner's name on preliminary page, some underlining. Tight and square. The unclipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) is significantly chipped and torn. VERY GOOD/GOOD.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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