Search Results: Poetry from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, Henry Holt [1945]. [72] p. 22 cm. "Third Printing, September, 1945" (1st March, 1944). Firmage 19a. 54 numbered poems. Dj title is One Times One. These wartime poems include ?what if a much of a which of a wind? (XX), war poems such as plato told (XIII), and love lyrics- n Stock# 42,672. Vg / no dj.

series Noonday 387. "These are sections, constituting one version, of a poem in progress." Softcover. xi, 84 pages; 20.5 cm. Paper; minor wear, covers slightly rippled; ink owner name, marks in table of contents; Good. stock#3058/h.

Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1949. Hard Cover. 3 p.l., 68, [2] p. 20 cm. A collection of 65 six-line verses with varied rhyme patterns, narrative forms , and rythmns. Spencer died before these were printed. Stock# 32,741. Vg/ dj good+.

Urbana, Illinois UP [1992]. . Hard Cover. 3 p.l., 506 p., indexes; 23 cm. An anthology of 171 poems by 35 black men and women. Stock #29,826. Laminated red boards; fine. American, African literature, poetry/verse.

Harper & Row [c1970]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. 82 p.; 21 cm. Four sections: I (18 poems), II (14), III (16), IV (17). Includes publisher's review slips, letter, & mailing label. Grey boards decorated in red; dj spine has small closed tear, slightly faded; fine, gift quality. stock#46424.

Flushing, L.I., 1934. Soft Cover. 40 pages, 20.5 cm. Features a laudatory one page (2) essay on S. Foster Damon by Susanna Valentine Mitchell as well as a seven page "Prologue To a Puritan Epic" (pp.3-11) by Damon. Stock# 41,095. Vg/

Sansoni, Firenze [1967]. Soft Cover. xxiii, [3], 111 pages; 20 cm. Pastoral comedy, written and first performed in 1573. "Laude del libero amore" non á; ma laude dell'amore, ossia celebrazione idillica del pióuniversale dei sentimenti, l'Aminta á certamente; e proprio in questa sana umanitá del tema, sentita e resa con mirabile grazia di linee, di colori e di suoni, va ricercata la vena profonda che alimenta la sua immortale freschezza." Paper; minor wear, faint blindstamp on title-page; VG. stock#45858.

N.Y., Macmillan, 1923.. Hard Cover. 82 p. 20 cm. Recognized today for writing of things especially concerning women. This has been read thoroughly and carefully with many annotations. Stock #28,618. Good +/ no dj.

N.Y., Knopf, 1930. Hard Cover. xi, 68, [2] p., 22.5 cm. Sixth printing, January, 1930 (first, April, 1929) of Wylie's last book of poems. The contents were selected for publication December 15, 1928, the day before she died. Stock# 32,876. Good, spine faded/ no dj.

London, Longman..., 1872. Hard Cover. [5], 583, 32 pages; 26 cm. series: Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages [Rolls #59]. Contents: Bernardi Morlanensis de Contemptu Mundi, Godefridi Prioris Epigrammata Historica; Epigrammata Miscellanea; Henrici Archidiaconi Historiae Liber Undecimus; Alexandri Neckam de Vita Monachorum; Gualonis Britonis Invectio in Monachos; Versus Serlonis de Filiis Presbyterorum; Anonymi Versus de Querimonia Cleri; Versus Hugonis Sotovaginae; Anonymi Versus de Abbatibus Mitris Utentibus et Deliciose Viventibus; Serlonis Monachi Poemata; Reginaldi Monachi Poemata; Alani Anglici Anticlaudianus (Distinctio Prima-Nona); Alani Liber de Planctu Naturae; Appendix. Anglo-Latin aenigmata of the Saxon Period (Tatwini aenigmata; Aldhelmi aenigmata); Index. Last 32 pages, Catalogue of Record Publications on sale by Messrs. Longman & Co...., are unopened. Green boards, leather spine stamped in gold;… Read More

in The New Yorker, LXIX: 27 (23/30 August 1993), pp. 84-159. Periodical. Part I: 'Since her suicide, in 1963, the poet Sylvia Plath has drawn a succession of biographers to her unquiet grave. In death, as in life, she raises uncomfortable questions about her identity-- and about the nature of biography itself.' Part II: ''Bitter Fame', by Anne Stevenson, written with the coöperation of the Plath estate, attempted to shed new light on the Plath-Hughes marriage. Instead, it started a conflagration-- a literary scandal-- from which sparks are still flying.' Part III: 'The testimony of witnesses is the Achilles' heel of biography. The people who have come forward with their recollections of Plath in the tumultuous last months of her life have revealed much about themselves-- but only deepened our sense of the mystery of her death.' With Plath's poems 'Medusa', 'Letter in November', 'Tulips', 'The Rabbit… Read More

Éditions KRA, Paris, 1930. Poetry by Albert-Birot, Apollinaire, Arcos, Arland, Baudelaire, Bertrand, Carco, Cendrars, Claudel, Cocteau, Cros, Derôme, Divoire, Drieu la Rochelle, Ducasse (Lautréamont), Duhamel, Durtain, Fargue, Gabory, Gérard, Germain, Gide, Giraudoux, Goll, Jacob, Jammès, Jarry, Jouve, Laforgue, Larbaud, Levet, Lubeck, Mac Orlan, Maeterlinck, Mallarmé, Mauriac, Milosz, Montesquiou-Fezensac, Montherlant, Morand, Nerval, Nouveau, Péguy, Pellerin, Proust, Radiguet, Reverdy, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Rimbaud, Romains, Roussel, Salmon, Soupault, Spire, Supervielle, Toulet, Tzara, Valéry, Verhaeren. Soft Cover. 464 pages; 19.5 cm. Paper; spine & edges darkened; VG. stock#45544.

Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, c1961. Bibliothèque de Cluny I & II. Soft Cover. Two volumes: 285, [2]; 340, [3] p.; 18 cm. Contents include I, Protée ou l'inconstance; Bulles, oiseaux, nuages...; L'Eau et le miroir; II, De la métamorphose à l'illusion; Le spectacle de la mort; La nuit et la lumière; Bibliographie, pp. 316-318; index. Paper; clear plastic djs; covers & edges lightly foxed; VG. stock#45650.

Pergamon Press [c1968]. 'First Edition 1965' & 1968. Soft Cover. Two volumes: xxxii, 175 p., index; li, 256 p., index; 20 cm. Arranged chronologically in order of poets' birth dates. Vol. I includes Notes on Versification plus 91 poems from Garcia Sánchez de Badajoz to San Juan de la Cruz; Vol. II includes 135 poems from Luis de Ribera to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. "Flexicover"; well used with pencil annotations by Alan S. Trueblood; good. stock#45947.

Stockbridge's lengthy introduction sketches the lives of Harris, Greene, and Anthony, "who were especially concerned in the formation, enlargement, and enriching of the collection". xxii, 312 pages; 25 cm. Sturdily bound in maroon boards with leather spine, gold lettering; spine edges rubbed but firm. Ex Forbes Library, Northampton MA, with markings & annotations; Good+. Stock#ofc0830.

Ediciones Escorial, Madrid, MCMXLII [1942; 21 marzo]. Contents: Poesias (1907), 53 titles; Rosario de sonetos liricos (1912), 67 titles; El Cristo de Velázquez (1920), 89 titles; Andanzas y visiones españolas (1922), 6 titles; Rimas de dentro (1923), 20 titles; Teresa (1924), 21 titles; De Fuerteventura a Paris (1925), 50 titles; Romancero del destierro (1927), 28 titles; Del 'Cancionero' inédito, 72 titles. Soft Cover. xvi, 459 pages; 23 cm. Printed wraps, as issued; some wear, pages darkened; part unopened; ink owner name; good. stock#45501.

New York : Harper, c1920. Hard Cover. [vi], 51 p. ; 20 cm.Written for the Provincetown Players. "Author's note on the playing of Aria da capo" : p. [33]-51. Copyright date from verso of t.p. Also on verso of t.p.: B-Y. Karl Yost. Bibl. of the works of E. St. V. Millay, 1937, no. 21, gives publication date as 1924 (based on dates of the six books by Millay p. [ii] ). Stock# 44,683. Good+, front cover spotted.

[3], 31 pages, thirty poems. Stapled in pictorial paper wraps; 23 cm. New. Stock#25688h.

NY, Harcourt, Brace [1958, c1955]. First Edition. Hard Cover. 173 p.; 22 cm. First American edition. A landmark in literary criticism that has shaped approaches to teaching poetry since the 1950s. Providing a brilliantly detailed analysis of the workings of English poetry, this study focuses on the technical workings of poetic language, examining devices such as meter and diction. These explorations use examples from poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot, and Yeats. With pencil underlinings and annotations of Prof. Walter R. Davis. Good+ / dj fair, soiled, worn from class use. Stock#43267.

Poetry. Passes for Nicanor Parra; Three for Free; Dream Tags. "Of 350 copies designed & printed by George Hodgkins this is number 191." Soft Cover. 20 unnumbered leaves; 12 cm. Brown paper stamped in black & purple; fine in mylar. stock#847/h.