POETRY & POETS from civilizingbooks

Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Definitve biography. Schwartz was also the subject of Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift. 416 pages.

Citadel Press, NY, 1947. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. "The work of three of France's greatest poets: the sensual and passionate glow of Charles Baudelaire, the desperate intensity and challenge of Arthur Rimbaud, and the absinthe-tinted symbolist songs of Paul Verlaine. The most representative of their writings presented with a biographical and critical introduction." [Pub. Info] Selections from Baudelaire's… Read more

Little Brown, Boston, 1911. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fair/No jacket. "Christina G. Rossetti was an influential and popular English poet. Her work spanned romance, devotional, narratives and childrenÕs poems making her one of the main female poets of her time." [Pub. Info] Front hinge broken; front cover separated from book. In need of restoration. Author's Edition. Revised and Enlarged. 1ST… Read more

Brockhampton Press, London UK, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since the end of the 17th century. Yeats was staunch in affirming his Irish… Read more

Brockhampton Press, London UK, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is universally recognized as the greatest poet of his age. His poems are almost religious in their celebration of nature's beauty, and his verse has a soaring, lyrical quality which is as seductive as it is readable." [Pub. Info] Beautifully designed and illustrated. 1ST EDITION

New Directions, NY, 1967. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 364 pages. 1ST EDITION, 2ND PRINTING

Picador, London, 2003. 1st edition. Soft Cover. Fine. SIGNED by author. "Clive James has emerged as one of the most prominent poets of his generation. 'Clive James is a true poet. Line after line of his has a characteristic personal tone, a kind of end-stopped singingness which is almost independent of what it says." [Peter Porter, London Review… Read more

Oxford, London, 1908. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. "George Crabbe (1754-1832) was an English poet, best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and peopleThe poems of the great poet of East Anglia and witness to rural poverty, are precise, closely observed, realistic portraits of rural life… Read more

Holt Rinehart Winston, NY, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Splendid narrative and pictures. STATED 1ST US EDITION

Henry Holt, NY, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The author presents the first complete and intimate biography of the controversial, mercurial British poet, scholar, and author of 'I, Claudius', 'The White Goddess', and 'Goodbye to All That." [Pub. Info] 524 pages. 1ST US EDITION.

Scribners, NY, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "An illuminating biography of the major classical scholar and poet draws on published and unpublished materials""[Pub. Info] 304 pages. 1ST US EDITION.

Carcanet Press, London, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists." [Pub. Info] Consists of Poems, Prose Poems, and Letters. 1ST EDITION

Heinemann, London, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1ST THUS.

Heinemann, London, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1ST THUS.

Viking, NY, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "A critical biography of Kipling focuses on the writer's literary and peripatetic searches for a refuge to replace the lost Indian Eden of his childhood." [Pub Info] Definitive biography. 397 pages. 1ST US EDITION.

Devin-Adais, NY, 1945. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Very good collection. 1ST EDITION.

"The very existence of this book is news, and its contents are exquisite literature." [Philadelphia Inquirer] "A breathtaking, incomparable overview of American poetry at the turn of the millennium, from experimental language poetry to traditional formal verse, with all the vital, monumental stops between, 'The Body Electric' captures the spirit of contemporary American poetry. The breadth and innovation of American… Read more

World of Culture/Newsweek, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Deluxe edition Beautiful volume. 1ST EDITION.

Crown, NY, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "A poetry anthology featuring a different poem for every day of the year, each one specifically tied to its date. The selections range from works by Shakespeare and Keats to those of T. S. Eliot and Sonia Sanchez." [Pub. Info] "The poems of far places are brought so into our lives,… Read more

Faber, London, 1965. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "First published in February 1936, just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth century. Since then three further editions by, in succession, Anne Ridler, Donald Hall and Peter Porter have been published. All took… Read more