Criticism from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

NY: Harper. G PB. (1976). 1st ptg. Kroll reconciles Plath's suicide to the use of suicide in her poems and her fascination with death as connected with a . broader concern with the themes of rebirth and transcendence. The Boston Herald calls Kroll's analysis brilliant, how despite her psychological terrors, her immense talent and intelligence were able to integrate… Read more about this item

NY: Harper Row. G PB. (1985). 1st ed. Includes essays by Sylvia's mother Aurelia S. Plath and an informative piece by Ted Hughes, Sylvia's husband. . A varied yet balanced view of an accomplished poet whose work deserves serious critical attention which this book offers. Front cover has crease .

NY: Eccp Press. VG PB. (1965). The road to a master's certificate as a playwright was both long and hard. He was intent on developing antirealistic . dramatic modes. Shows Yeats as he meticulously changed and corrected his plays. .

Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ Press. VG PB. (1963). A significant portion of Poe's essays, reviews, lectures, and editorial comment was concerned with politics and practices of . publishers, editors, and reviewers. His literary battles had a singleness of purpose: to prepaer the ground for writers of genuine talen t for a respectable American literature. .

np: HarperCollins. VG in VG DJ. (1999). 1st ed. Music, abstract painting, the appeal of sports cars, the role of the intellectual in modern American life, forgotten novels, . contemporary trends in education. Small nick on back of DJ. .

London: Evans Brothers. VG PB. (1969). 1st ptg. Yeats is generally considered a great poet but only a handful of his poems are known and anthologized, but his early and late . work is widely ignored and his personal and poetic development becomes blurred. Here it is shownn that Yeats was a seeker after truth and his impetus for… Read more about this item

np: Down East Books. VG PB. (2001). For more than 50 years Ogilvie has crafted one memorable book after another, most set in Maine or the Scottish Highlands. . At last a book about this prolific yet unassuming author who would rather live quietly on her Maine island than try to garner the limelight. A definitive work on her life,… Read more about this item

NY: Norton. G PB ex-library. (1969). NY Times Book Review said Ford's book significantly enlarges our understanding of Lawrence's fiction. Ford approaches . Lawrence's fiction through the idea of "double measure", the rhythm of powerful forces that pull against each other in the lives of Lawrence's characters to form a pattern of structure throughout his works, not only between life… Read more about this item

Tuscaloosa: Univ of Alabama Press. G in G DJ ex-library. (1992). Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story & novel for Maine writer Jewett. Each person, regardless of sex, . must break free of the restrictive, polar-opposite norms of behavior traditionally assigned to men and women by a patriarchal society - where a competitive, active man dominates… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh, PA: Univ of Pittsburgh Press. VG in Fair DJ. (1961). It is said Werfel's work is uneven in literary value, yet the force of his writing and the lyrical spontaneity of its best . have won Werfel lasting fame. These essays cover his varied career as poet, dramatist and novelist, and are written by professionals who admire his… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale Univ Press. VG PB. (1983). 3rd ptg. Authoritative introduction to Faulkner's most important novesl and short stories, written for the general reader by "the best . critic of our best novelist." Slight marking on fore-edge, owner name ft endpaper. .

NY: Harbinger/Harcourt Brace. G PB. (1963). Once spoken of as immoral practicising a cult of cruelty in a slapdash manner, Faulkner has come to be called a man of moral . vision and a poet in prose. Here is some of the best criticism of him and also includes his famous "Stockhom Address" and an interview he gave to… Read more about this item

London: Susquehanna Univ Press. VG in VG DJ. (1990).

Columbia, SC: Camden House. VG in VG DJ. (1996). Wolfe wrote that there is no such thing as an artistic vacuum and Johnston follows the premise that literature is as much . the product of the social and critical community in which it evolves as it is the product of any individual's experience. .

NY: Norton. VG PB. (1971). 3rd ptg. Authoritative texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark, . backgrounds including accounts of the early life of Carroll and writings and his later life, entries from his diaries, selections from early poems and reminiscences and other biographical sources, and essays in criticism considering the… Read more about this item

Newark, NJ: Self published. VG PB. nd (ca 1940s). Photos from movie, 2 page listing of movie credits, bibliography. Sl edge wear, back cover creased top outer corner. .

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Fair. 1933. Inscribed by author, owner name. Both joints cracked, edge wear, binding rubbed. .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press. VG lg sz PB. (1991). 2nd ptg. Oscillation in his writing between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, uncertainty and meaning. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. VG. (1931). 7th ptg. Green binding, gilt lettering (rubbed), back cover mottled, sl edge wear, owner bookplate & name ft endpaper. .

np: Eerdmans. G ex-library PB. (1967). Grass called himself a "realist" which to him meant presenting this world from points of viewe wholl within the world. . Library markings. .