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Language as Gesture: Essays in the Craft and Elucidation of Modern Poetry
by R. P. Blackmur
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Allen & Unwin, London, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Red Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles & contents list to front. Literary criticism of 20th century poets including: -- Emily Dickinson: notes on Prejudice and fact -- The shorter poems of Thomas Hardy -- The later poetry of W.B. Yeats -- W. B. Yeats: between myth and philosophy -- Masks of Ezra Pound -- An adjunct to the Muses' diadem: a note on E .P. -- T. S. Eliot: from "Ash Wednesday" to "Murder in the Cathedral" -- Unappeasable and Peregrine: behavior and the "Four questions" -- Examples of Wallace Stevens -- Wallace Stevens: an abstract blooded -- On Herbert Read and Wallace Stevens: poetry and sensibility: some rules of thumb -- The method of Marianne Moore -- D. H. Lawrence and expressive form -- New thresholds, new anatomies: notes on a text of Hart Crane -- Notes on E. E. Cummings' language -- An others: The experience of ideas ; John Wheelwright and Dr. Williams ; Notes on seven poets ; Three notes -- St. Augustine's De musica: a synopsis -- A critic's job of work -- A feather-bed for critics: notes on the profession of writing -- Lord Tennyson's Scissors: 1912-1950. Publisher's adverts to rear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vi + 440 + 2. Previous owner's signature in ink to fep.. Top edge red. Silver titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Literature & Literary; Literary Criticism; Twentieth Century Poetry; Poetry. Inventory No: 5142. .
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- Title
- Language as Gesture: Essays in the Craft and Elucidation of Modern Poetry
- Author
- R. P. Blackmur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Red Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Language & Linguistics/PoetryTwentieth Century Poetry//Literary Criticism/Literature & Literary Language & Linguistics; Literature & Literary; Literary Criticism; Twentieth Century Poetry; Poetry. Unbranded R. P. Blackmur Languag
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