Tragic Themes in Western Literature
by Brooks, Cleanth (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New Haven, CT, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1955. This is a collection of seven essays on tragedy, from Sophocles to T. S. Eliot, by Bernard Knox, Maynard Mack, Chauncey Tinker, Henri Peyre, Richard Sewall, Konstantin Reichardt, Louis Martz; the essays orginated as lectures delivered by Yale University professors in the autumn and winter of 1951-1952; this copy belonged to one of the contributors, the renowned classicist Bernard Knox, author of the first essay, who signed his name at the top of the front endpaper (black cloth with slightly faded gold lettering and decoration, edge wear at top of spine; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy). Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004320
- Title
- Tragic Themes in Western Literature
- Author
- Brooks, Cleanth (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1955
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- Literary Criticism;
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