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New York: Citadel Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. Hard Cover. 128 pages, cloth, dj, very good. . more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.. 1886. Hard Cover. 286 pages, frontispiece (portrait), decorated cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. . more information

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Boston: Roberts Brothers,. 1866. Hard Cover. 337 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markins, little shaken, some shelf wear, covers littled soiled & faded. First published, 1856, under title: Poetry of the East. English translation from Oriental literature, and original poetry on Oriental subjects. Alger (1822-1905) a Unitarian clergyman, was a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, and held various pastorates (Roxbury, Boston, as successor of Theodore Parker, 1855-73), but after 1882 lived in Boston. . more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1958. Hard Cover. London edition (Chatto & Windus) has title: The shaping spirit. 191 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. 1st American edition. Includes works by W.H. Auden, Hart Crane, Richard Eberhart, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Lowell, Ezra Pound John Crowe Ransom, Theodore Roethke, Isaac Rosenberg, Wallace Stevens, and W.B. Yeats. . more information

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New York: Mcgraw- Hill Book Co. ,. 1954. Hard Cover. Illustrations by Leo Hershfield. 118 pages, illustrations (cartoons), cloth, dj, very good. Second printing. From the dj: You probably never met a cow that needed a psychiatrist. Nor a man who went barefoot because so many people kept putting themselves in his shows. On the other hand you've certainly detected that slight gray streak in your wife's raven stresses, because, as Richard Armour put it, 'Middle age is a time of life A man first notices in his wife.' . more information

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Dansville, NY: F. A. Owen Publishing. Very Good. 1910. Soft Cover. With biographical sketch, introduction, notes, etc. by Laura Dunbar Hagarty. 48 pages, wrappers, very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "Matthew Arnold (1822-88), English poet and critic, son of the educator Dr. Thomas Arnold. Arnold was educated at Rugby; graduated from Balliol College, Oxford in 1844; and was a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1845. In 1851, after a period as secretary to the 3d marquess of Lansdowne, Arnold was appointed inspector of schools, a position he held until 1886, two years before his death. During his tenure he went on a number of missions to European schools. He was impressed with some educational systems on the Continent-most particularly the concept of state-regulated secondary education-and wrote several works about them. His first volume of poems, The Strayed Reveller, appeared in 1849; it was followed by Empedocles on Etna (1852). Dissatisfied with both works, he withdrew them from circulation. Poems (1853) contained verse from the earlier volumes as well as new poems, including "The Scholar Gypsy" and "Sohrab and Rustum." Poems: Second Series appeared in 1855 and was followed by Merope: A Tragedy (1858) and New Poems (1867); the latter volume included "Thyrsis," his famous elegy on Arthur Hugh Clough. Arnold's verse is characterized by restraint, directness, and symmetry. Though he believed that poetry should be objective, his verse exemplifies the romantic pessimism of the 19th cent., an age torn between science and religion." . more information

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Boston: Branden Press. 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. 80 pages, text sketches, cloth, dj, very good. From the dj: 'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence' is one of the most common of all aphorisms, and the general idea is found in every language. These verses express in one way or another a longing for the greener grass. Russell Pettis Askue writes with disarming directness of friendship, family life, nature, and love for country, and the easy metrical compositions are catching and refreshing. The illustrations are by the author, and he holds every drawing to a simple outline that suggests the poem,, but does not overpower it. Most of the poems have appeared in leading newspapers and magazines. 'What is Truth' won First Prize in a national contest, and the readers of a country newspaper voted 'Farm Team' a similar honor. 'Letter from the Front' was set to music by New York pianist and composer Vera Eakin, and sung on two different occasions over Radio WNYC by Metropolitan baritone John Robert Dunlap. 'Inscription for a Red Cross Donor Center' was printed by numerous publications during World War II. . more information

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New York: John W. Lovell (Circa 1880). Fair. Hard Cover. 230 pages, decorated cloth, some shelf wear otherwise very good. Includes Edinburg after Flodden. The execution of Montrose. The heart of the Bruce. The burial-march of Dundee. The widow of Glencoe. The island of the Scots. Charles Edward at Versailles. The old Scottish cavalier. From Encyclopædia Britannica Online: "William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865), poet famous for parodies and light verse that greatly influenced the style of later Scottish humorous satire. Born into a literary family, Aytoun learned from his mother to love Scottish ballads and history. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and in Germany, and in 1840 he was called to the Scottish bar. That same year he first collaborated with Theodore Martin in a series of humorous and satirical papers for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, later published as the Bon Gaultier Ballads (1845). These papers include Aytoun's parodies "The Queen in France," based on "Sir Patrick Spens," and "The Massacre of the Macpherson," both of which were models for later writers, especially for W.S. Gilbert in the Bab Ballads (1869). In 1844 Aytoun joined the staff of Blackwoods, to which he contributed political as well as miscellaneous articles. The following year he was appointed professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at Edinburgh. Shortly afterward he published Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers (1849), a set of Jacobite ballads that achieved wide popularity. In 1854, reverting to light verse, he published Firmilian, or the Student of Badajoz, a Spasmodic Tragedy, in which the writings of the spasmodic school were brilliantly ridiculed. In 1858 Aytoun published The Ballads of Scotland, 2 vol., and a translation made with Martin of the Poems and Ballads of Goethe. His Norman Sinclair (1861) pictures Scottish manners in the early 19th century." . more information

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Littleton, NH: Courier Printing Company. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Soft Cover. 16 leaves, wrappers, signed by author on title-page, very good. 1st edition. Quite scarce. ; Signed by Author . more information

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Littleton, NH: Courier Printing Company. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Soft Cover. 14 leaves, wrappers, signed by author on title-page, very good. 1st edition. Poems of friendship. Quite scarce. ; Signed by Author . more information

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Littleton, NH: Courier Printing Company. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Soft Cover. 16 leaves, wrappers, signed by author on title-page, very good. 1st edition. Inspirational poems. Quite scarce. ; Signed by Author . more information

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Littleton, NH: Courier Printing Company. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Soft Cover. 16 leaves, wrappers, signed by author on title-page, very good. 1st edition. On cover: Gems of nature, Poems. Quite scarce. ; Signed by Author . more information

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New York: Odyssey Press. Good. 1947. Hardcover. [12], 64 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the website of the Penncylvania Center for the Book: ""Laura Benét (1884-1979) born June 13, 1884, was an award-winning poet after receiving an award from the National Poetry Center in 1936. In 1958, she had her poems recorded at the Library of Congress. She also received recognition from the National Society of Arts and Letters. She studied at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. ~ During her time as a writer, she wrote children's books, novels, poetry, and biographies. "Benét's six slim books of poetry are only a small part of her output, but she considered herself a poet first, " according to Carol Gartner. The poems in Is Morning Sure? "are more solid, yet still characteristically delicate, " explains Gartner. Benét belonged to the Poetry Society of America, PEN, Women Poets, Craftsman Group, and the Pen and Brush Club (honorary). In 1936, she received a medal as an honor poet from the National Poetry Center. Her poems were recorded at the Library of Congress in 1958. Laura Benét lived in New York City and died on February 17, 1979." NR90 ; Ex-Library; 64 pages . more information

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New York: Farrar & Rinehart,. 1943. Hard Cover. 181 pages, cloth, dust jacket frayed otherwise very good. . more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf,. Very Good. 1964. Hard Cover. 43 pages, boards, dj, inscription to former owner on front endpaper otherwise very good. 36th printing. "I certainly do not find these poems pornographic. They are direct and free, quick with life and warm with remembered passion. The imagery is sensuous and exact, but no more graphic -- or pornographic -- than the images in the Song of Songs. It is remarkable how Benton has varied the erotic theme and the overtones of physical love." -- Louis Untermeyer. . more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf,. Very Good. 1951. Hard Cover. 48 pages, cloth, very good. Wrote Louis Untermeyer of these poems- "I certainly do not find these poems pornographic. They are direct and free, quick with life and warm with remembered passion. The imagery is sensuous and exact, but no more graphic -- or pornographic -- than the images in the Song of Songs. It is remarkable how Benton has varied the erotic theme and the overtones of physical love." . more information

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. [8], 112 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Scarce. Maine poet Berry also wrote Tall Oneida Mountain And Other Poems. NR97 ; Ex-Library; 112 pages . more information

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Troy, ME: Nightshade Press. Good. 1992. First Edition. Softcover. 1879205327 . 61, [2] pages, pictorial wrappers, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. 1st edition. Editor: Roy Zarucchi. The author's poetry has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, California Quarterly, Oxford Magazine, Scranton Review, Staten Island and many other journals and her work has been broadcast on National Public Radio. A native of Pennsylvania, she has received two PEN USA Syndicated Fiction Prizes. ; Ex-Library; 61 pages . more information

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Nashville,: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Good in Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0840764316 . 191 pages, frontispiece (portrait) , cloth, DJ, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. First edition. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet, b. Cockermouth, Cumberland. One of the great English poets, he was a leader of the romantic movement in England. " ; Ex-Library; 191 pages . more information

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Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing. Very Good. 1987. Softcover. 0878440739 . 176 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the publisher: "The late Archibald Hamilton Rutledge was highly respected for his accomplishments as a poet, philosopher, educator, writer, outdoorsman and conservationist. He is among the most revered South Carolinians of the twentieth century and served as the state's first Poet Laureate. This biography traces the life of this talented man from his childhood to his position as a nationally acclaimed outdoors writer, inspirational writer and poet, and on to his retirement to his beloved boyhood home, Hampton Plantation. " SR3537; 176 pages . more information

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Boston: Richard G. Badger. Very Good-. 1923. Hardcover. 100 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Scarce. "Bartlett Brook (1875-1918) s, a prominent Bangor (Maine) attorney and member of the faculty of the University of Maine college of law, son of George and Priscilla Nash Brooks, was born in Orrington, Feb. 1, 1875." R255 ; Ex-Library; 100 pages . more information

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New York: Macmillan Co.. Very Good. 1923. Hard Cover. [6],178 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the website of University of New Hampshire Library, Collection of Alice Brown Papers: "Alice Brown was born in Hampton Falls, N.H. on December 5, 1857, the daughter of Levi and Elizabeth (Lucas) Brown. She graduated from the Robinson Seminary in Exeter, N.H. in 1876. Brown taught school for five years in both New Hampshire and Boston, but found she preferred editing to teaching. She worked on the staffs of the Christian Register and Youth's Companion and by 1884 had begun her long career as a writer of short stories, novels, and plays. She continued publishing into the 1940s. Brown lived at ll Pinckney Street, Boston, and summered in Newburyport, Mass., and at her farm in Hill, N.H. She died in Boston on June 21, 1948." . more information

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New York: Henry Harrison. 1938. Hard Cover. 64 pages, cloth, very good. Some selections were reprinted from The Seattle Post Intelligencer, Modern American Poetry and the Poetry House Anthology. . more information

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Durham, NH: Oyster River Press. Very Good. 1997. Third Edition. Softcover. 0961748109 . X, 107 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. Translations from French and Spanish by Cicely Buckley; from classical Chinese, by Xiao-Ming Li and Pen Xu; from the German, by Mechthilde Romoser. Calligraphy by Shou-Xian Ren and Kate Glanz. Third edition. SR640B ; 107 pages . more information

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New York: Thomas R. Knox & Co. , Successors To James Miller, (Circa 18;70). Hard Cover. 2 volumes, half leather, marbled boards and endpapers, ex-library with usual library markings , covers frayed and loose, text very good. . more information

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Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. ca 1920. Hardcover. [6], 50 pages, illustrations, pictorial boards, very good. Children's book containing a poem about an unlucky raven with wonderful illustrations. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "Wilhelm Busch, 1832-1908, German cartoonist, painter, and poet. After studying at the academies of Antwerp, Düsseldorf, and Munich, he joined the staff of the Fliegende Blätter, to which he contributed highly popular humorous drawings from 1859 to 1871. His humorous, illustrated poems for children, such as Max and Moritz (1865; tr. By Christopher Morley, 1932) , are simply drawn, yet highly spirited. Busch's delightful series of wordless pictures were highly influential in the development of the comic strip. " ; 50 pages . more information

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Clemson, SC: College of Liberal Arts At Clemson University. Very Good. 1978. Soft Cover. 109 pages, pictorial wrappers, very good. Special issue on James Dickey. Essays include: The most dangerous game of the poet James Dickey, R.V. Cassill; The Neo-Romanticism of James Dickey, George S. Lensing; Deliverance: Initiation and Possibility, Linda Wagner; James Dickey's The Eye-Beaters: 'An Agonizing New Life,' Ronald Baughman; Design and Focus in James Dickey's Deliverance, Linda Tarte Holley. Poems by Elder Olson, Lyn Lifshin, Tom Hawkins, James Applewhite, Laurence Lieberman, William Stafford, A. Poulin, Jr., Philip Pierson, Harold Wiley, Edward Wilson, Marjorie Hawksworth, Chuck Sullivan, M.S. Osaki, J.W. Rivers. Fiction by Mark Steadman, Daniel B. Marin, Henry H. Roth. Cover photo of James Dickey by William Stafford. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: James Dickey, 1923-97, American poet and novelist, b. Atlanta. After serving in the air force during World War II, he attended Vanderbilt Univ., graduating in 1946. He was an English teacher and an advertising executive. Dickey's poetry has great energy. He made use of the ordinary in his verse, joining the natural and mechanical on such topics as war, nature, and machinery. His volumes of poetry include Into the Stone and Other Poems (1960), Buckdancer's Choice (1965), The Zodiac (1976), and Falling, May Day, Sermon, and Other Poems (1981). He is probably best known for his novel Deliverance (1969), in which a group of businessmen on a hunting trip are forced to fight for their lives. He also wrote the screenplay for the film version (1972). His nonfiction includes Self-Interviews (1970) and several works of criticism. . more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers. Good+. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. 161 pages, illustrations, pictorial cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. 1st edition. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "Will Carleton, 1845-1912, American poet, b. Hudson, Mich. He is best known for his sentimental poems of rural life, the most famous being "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse. " Among his works are Farm Ballads (1873) , Farm Legends (1875) , and City Ballads (1885). " M37; 161 pages . more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers. Good+. 1890. Hardcover. 170 pages, illustrations, pictorial cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "Will Carleton, 1845-1912, American poet, b. Hudson, Mich. He is best known for his sentimental poems of rural life, the most famous being "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse. " Among his works are Farm Ballads (1873) , Farm Legends (1875) , and City Ballads (1885). " m38 ; 170 pages . more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers. Good+. 1885. Hardcover. 180 pages, illustrations, pictorial cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "Will Carleton, 1845-1912, American poet, b. Hudson, Mich. He is best known for his sentimental poems of rural life, the most famous being "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse. " Among his works are Farm Ballads (1873) , Farm Legends (1875) , and City Ballads (1885). " M40; Ex-Library; 180 pages . more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1899. Hard Cover. New edition from new plates. 177 pages, 12 plates, pictorial cloth, very good. Poetry. Contents include: Festivals of the Nation (including Three Scenes from the Life of Columbus), Festivals of the Jolly Clergymen, A Festival of the Sky Club (including Flight of the Aged Balloonist), The Festival of the Freaks (including The Bearded Lady's Story), The Festival of the Tram Club (including The Engine-driver's Story), The Festival of Family Reunion. . more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers. Good+. 1875. Hardcover. 131 pages, illustrations, pictorial cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "Will Carleton, 1845-1912, American poet, b. Hudson, Mich. He is best known for his sentimental poems of rural life, the most famous being "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse. " Among his works are Farm Ballads (1873) , Farm Legends (1875) , and City Ballads (1885). " M39; Ex-Library; 131 pages . more information

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Boston: D. C. Heath and Co.. Very Good. 1909. Hard Cover. With introduction and notes by Jesse Benedict Carter. [48], 283 pages, cloth, very good. From the preface: Five years ago I tried the experiment of reading the Augustan Elegists with a Senior elective class. In the absence of an edition in English containing Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid I was compelled to use Teubner texts, supplementing the reading in class by a series of lectures and a running commentary. Out of these lectures and my marginal notes this book has arisen." . more information

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New York: Philosophical Library. 1962. Soft Cover. Arranged and translated by J.H.A. Tremenheere. 173 pages, pictorial wrappers, very good. Pocket-book. From the back cover: 'A translation of the masterwork from the pen of the most eminent Roman poet, Gajus Valerius Catullus. In Catullus we meet for the first time in Latin verse intense personal moods of love, jealousy and hate. The lyrics of Catullus are 'autobiographical' as his love affair with Lesbia was as violent as it was real. His artistry in handling the metre of the Elegy became standard in poetics for many years.' From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Caius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet, b. Verona. Of a well-to-do family, he went c.62 B.C. to Rome. He fell deeply in love, probably with Clodia, sister of Cicero's opponent Publius Clodius. She was suspected of murdering her husband. Catullus wrote to his beloved, addressed as Lesbia (to recall Sappho of Lesbos), a series of superb little poems that run from early passion and tenderness to the hatred and disillusionment that overwhelmed him after his mistress was faithless. Of the 116 extant poems attributed to him, three (18-20) are almost certainly spurious. They include, besides the Lesbia poems, poems to his young friend Juventius; epigrams, ranging from the genial to the obscenely derisive; elegies; a few long poems, notably "Attis" and a nuptial poem honoring Thetis and Peleus; and various short pieces. His satire is vigorous and flexible, his light poems joyful and full-bodied. He was influenced by the Alexandrians and drew much on the Greeks for form and meter, but his genius outran all models. Catullus is one of the greatest lyric poets of all time.' . more information

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Minneapolis,: Lerner Publications Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Hard Cover. 0822549115 . 112 pages, well illustrated, cloth, dj, very good. From the publisher: One of the most expressive voices of 19th century Russia was that of Aleksandr Pushkin, best known as the author of Evgeni Onegin. Pushkin penned hundreds of poems during his brief lifetime, touching on everything from folklore to politics. His works while at first highly acclaimed by the Russian people, were later scorned. The people viewed him as a Tsarist puppet, after reading his works in censored form. This detailed biography examines the life of this popular poet, whose works are widely recognized as the origins of Russian classical literature. . more information

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Fitchburg: S. & C. Shepley. Very Good. 1846. Hardcover. 128 pages, frontispiece in color (flower) , decorated cloth, gilt backstrip and decoration on cover quite evident, nice clean tight copy. Each flower is described including physical description and a short verse for example, I am your captive, Beware the coquette, etc. Scarce early edition, possible first. Introductory poem "Flowers are love's truest language" by Park Benjamin. From the preface: "The love of flowers is inherent in the human soul. "; 128 pages . more information

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Middletown, CT,: Wesleyan University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0819520608 . 80 pages, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. 1st edition. Wesleyan poetry program, v. 60. . more information

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London: Griffith and Farran (Circa 1880). Poor. Hard Cover. At top of title page: The Lansdowne Poets. Xvi,624 pages, frontispiece (portrait), limp gilt decorated leather, the backstrip is badly frayed with pieces missing, front and back covers are complete but the covers are detached. Text is very good. From the Wikipedia website: "Eliza Cook (24 December 1818 - 23 September 1889) was an English author born in Southwark, the daughter of a local tradesman. She attended the local Sunday Schools and was encouraged by the son of the music master to produce her first volume of poetry. From this she took confidence and in 1837 began to offer verse to the radical Weekly Dispatch, then edited by William Johnston Fox. She was a staple of its pages for the next ten years. She also offered material to The Literary Gazette, Metropolitan Magazine and New Monthly. Her work for the Dispatch and New Monthly was later pirated by George Julian Harney, the Chartist, for the Northern Star. Familiar with the London Chartist movement, in its various sects, she followed many of the older radicals in disagreeing with the O'Brienites and O'Connorites in their disregard for repeal of the Corn Laws. She also preferred the older radical's path of friendly societies and self-education. In 1838 she published Melaia and other Poems, and from 1849 to 1854 wrote, edited, and published Eliza Cooks Journal, a weekly periodical she described as one of "utility and amusement." Cook also published Jottings from my Journal (1860), and New Echoes (1864); and in 1863 she was given a civil list pension of 100 a year. Her poem The Old Armchair (1838) made hers a household name for a generation, both in England and in America. Cook was a proponent of political and sexual freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her great favourite with the working-class public. Her works became a staple of anthologies throughout the century. She died in Wimbledon." . more information

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Henry Holt and Co.. Good+. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. [8], 55 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. First printing. From the dust jacket: "This is Mr. Coxe's first volume of poems, although he is well known to many who have read his single poems in various literary magazines. They were written over a five-year period - 1941-1946 - and they constitute something of a personal history, as true and honest poetry must. " NR99A ; Ex-Library . more information

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Antrim, NH: Poet Tree Press. Very Good. 1983. Soft Cover. 32 pages, pictorial wrappers, very good. Signed by author. Candidate for U.S. Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1986. ; Signed by Author . more information

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New York: Argophile Press. Very Good. 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by George J. Firmage. Foreword by the author. 241 pages, cloth, very good. 1st edition. Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin Cummings), 1894-1962, American poet, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1915. His poetry, noted for its eccentricities of typography, language, and punctuation, usually seeks to convey a joyful, living awareness of sex and love. Among his 15 volumes of poetry are Tulips and Chimneys (1923), Is 5 (1926), and 95 Poems (1958). A prose account of his war internment in France, The Enormous Room (1922), is considered one of the finest books ever written about World War I. Cummings was also an accomplished artist whose paintings and drawings were exhibited in several one-man shows. . more information

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Boston: Gambit, Inc.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Xviii, 276 pages, cloth, DJ, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the dust jacket: "This work of a lifetime by a distinguished writer and scholar will inevitably and justly be compared with Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body for its dramatic vitality, its command of an authentic idiom, and for its evocation of fundamental themes from the American past. Jonathan Moulton, as New Hampshire place names still attest, was a historical figure of importance - explorer, land holder, Indian fighter, public man, and eventually general. But he also was and is an equally genuine figure of dark legend, a man who got the better of everyone, including the devil himself, and who lived his life under this sinister and heavy bargain without repentance. The moods of the poem are many, but its tension and its motion are produced by liens of imaginative force constantly pulling fact and legend toward each other. " M99; Ex-Library; 276 pages . more information

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Washington, ME: Off the Coast. Very Good. 2001. Soft Cover. Cover art by Stan Keach. The Live Poets Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of poetry as a significant part of our community's cultural life. The journal consists of poems, poetry reviews, artwork and interviews. . more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fair. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. X, [2], 251 pages, cloth, backstrip frayed, shelf wear, text very good. 1st edition. From the preface: The contents of the following pages rest upon certain fundamental assumptions; that the meaning of life is of vital interest to us all; that poets are our most beloved and persuasive teachers of what makes life significant; that the poets who are truly great are those who have presented the largest area of human experience most justly and powerfully; that they have become immortal because their ideas and beliefs run accordantly with the deepest currents of our belief in the realities of life; that they teach by what they say, but more by the characters they create, the principles they take for granted, the moods they communicate. " ; Ex-Library; 251 pages . more information

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New York: Macmillan Co.. 1908. Hard Cover. 232 pages, plates, cloth. 1st edition, very good. . more information

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Author. Very Good. 1975. Softcover. 76 pages, wrappers, very good. "The author, Marjorie Look Drake, is editor and staff of a poetry quarterly with international circulation, Driftwood East; she belongs to various poetry societies and is listed in the International Who's Who of Poetry; this is her second book of verse. " R133 ; 76 pages . more information

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New York: Macmillan Co.. 1929. Hard Cover. 825 pages, cloth, very good. . more information

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New York: Neale Publishing Company. Good+. 1907. Hardcover. 53 pages, well illustrated, decorated cloth, covers lightly dust-soiled otherwise very good. With illustrations by Sue Berkeley Alrich. From the preface: "It is thought by the writer best to state that this poem was not written originally with a view to publication, but as a simple tribute to certain friends of hers in James City County, Virginia, on the occasion of our Tercentenary. " FR5-6; 53 pages . more information

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New York: Macmillan Co.. Very Good. 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover. 117 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Stated 1st edition. From the Wikipedia website: "John Gould Fletcher (January 3, 1886 - May 20, 1950) was a Pulitzer Prize winning Imagist poet and author. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to a socially prominent family, and went on to attend Harvard University from 1903 to 1907, when he dropped out shortly after his father's death. Fletcher lived in England for a large portion of his life. While in Europe he associated with Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, and other Imagist poets, enjoying the vibrant social scene. His early works include Irradiations: Sand and Spray (1915), and Goblins and Pagodas (1916). In later poetic works Fletcher returned to more traditional forms. These include The Black Rock (1928), Selected Poems (1938), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939, and The Burning Mountain (1946). Fletcher later returned to his home in Arkansas and reconnected with his roots. The subject of his works turned increasingly towards Southern issues and Traditionalism. In the late 1920s and 1930s he was active with a group of 11 other Southern writers and poets known as the Southern Agrarians. This group published the classic Agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand, a collection of essays rejecting Modernism and Industrialism. In 1937 he wrote his autobiography, Life is My Song, and in 1947 he published Arkansas, a beautifully written history of his home state. On January 18, 1936 he married a noted author of children's books, Charlie May Simon. The two of them built "Johnswood", a residence on the bluffs of the Arkansas River outside Little Rock. They traveled frequently, however, to New York for the intellectual stimulation and to the American Southwest for the climate, after Fletcher began to suffer from arthritis. Fletcher suffered from depression and on 20 May 1950 committed suicide by drowning in a pond near his home in Little Rock, Arkansas. Fletcher is buried at historic Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, and a branch of the Central Arkansas Library System is named in his honor." . more information

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Amherst, MA,: Heatherstone Press. Very Good. 1990. Soft Cover. Cover by Maurianna Nolan. Editors for the first printing, Jeanne Braham & Veronica Morgan. [4], 16, [2] pages, pictorial wrappers, very good. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. From the publisher: "Born in 1949 of German immigrants, Richard Foerster grew up in the Bronx, where he attended parochial schools and Fordham University. After receiving an MA in English from the University of Virginia in 1972, he worked at various jobs in publishing and is presently a freelance educational writer living in York Beach, Maine. Since 1978 he has also been Associate Editor of the literary magazine Chelsea. His poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Shenandoah, The New Criterion, and Boulevard, among many others. In 1985 he was awarded the 'Discovery' / The Nation prize and has subsequently been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Transfigured Night is his first collection." . more information

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