Literary Criticism from The Owl at the Bridge

A collection of critical essays published in The Kenyon Review. x, 342 pages; 21.5 cm. Bibliography, pages 341-342. Black cloth over boards, spine & front cover stamped in silver; no dust jacket; dated ink owner name "Meredith P. Gilpatrick" inside front cover; color-pencil marginal commentary & underlining in the essay on Auden, otherwise clean; Good. Stock#ofc0917.

Pamphlet; 48 pages stapled in printed wraps; 20 cm. "Second printing 1967." Small blackened sticker on front; Very Good. Stock#ofc0918.

Volume IX begins with No. 423, Saturday, July 5, 1712, and ends with No. 474, Wednesday, September 3 (261 pages). Bound with Vol. X, Nos. 475, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1712 through No. 504, Wednesday, October 8 (146 pages). Paper slightly darkened, all edges red; bound in grey marbled paper with red cloth spine; Very Good. Stock#ofc0687.

Complete in fascicles, unbound: 1 (pages 1-48), 2 (49-96), 5 (97-144), 6 (145-192), 9 (193-240), 13 (241-288), 22 & 23 (289-368 + Note (page [369]), Bibliografia (371-375 + title-page & preliminary matter (dedication, preface, table of contents) for a binder. Complete; in pink paper wrappers; mild edgewear, pages gently toned; Good. Stock#ofc0647.

"The Notebooks of Henry James, which constitute the bulk of this volume, are a record of his work in progrss for a period of more than thirty years. ...subsequent to his first entry about Confidence, in the autumn of 1878, all his finished novels and all but a handful of his stories are discussed or at least mentioned in… Ler mais sobre este item

Stapled in green pictorial paper; Very Good with author's ink inscription to Alan S. Trueblood. Stock#ofc0494.

Whole issue of BSA Papers 45, January-February-March 1951 (102 pages); other articles are Allan H. Stevenson, A Critical Study of Harwood's 'Watermarks Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries'; Morse Peckham, Dr. Lardner's 'Cabinet Cyclopaedia'; Donald G. Wing, The Making of the 'Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700'; includes bibliographical notes & book reviews. Very Good. Stock#ofc0457.

"The job of criticism would seem to be, then, to recall liberalism to its first essential imagination of variousness and possibility, which implies the awareness of complexity and difficulty. To the carrying out of the job of criticizing the liberal imagination, literature has a unique relevance, not merely because so much of modern literature has explicitly directed itself upon… Ler mais sobre este item

"This book is an outline of the chief ways in which Greek and Latin influence has moulded the literature of western Europe and America." Contents include The Dark Ages: English Literature; The Middle Ages: French Literature; Dante and Pagan Antiquity; Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer; The Renaissance: Translation; The Renaissance: Drama; The Renaissance: Epic; The Renaissance: Pastoral and… Ler mais sobre este item

Hardcover; xxxii, 365 pages; brown-paper dj; VG. Stock#ofc0104.

N.Y., Penguin, 1977. Series: Viking Critical Library. With text and apparatus, this edition is good for college study. vi, 570 pages; Vg/paperback. Stock#100908x.

Cambridge / A Boar's Head Book / Walker-deBerry, MDCCCCLX [1960]. First published 1959 by Northwestern University Press. First edition thus; "the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and literary criticism." Contents include Foreground; Conception (The Traditional Book: Myth & its Interpreters; The World as Text: Shifting Current of the Ideal; The Ideal of… Ler mais sobre este item

Firenze, Successori B. Seeber, 1907. Two volumes: [79]-502, 486 pages; 27 cm. Authors in Vol. 1: Ramiro Ortiz, Santorre Debenedetti, Domenico Guerri, Francesco Paolo Luiso, Carmine di Pierro, Vittorio Lazzarini, Arnaldo della Torre, Guido Traversari, Alfredo Galletti, Concetto Marchesi, Giuseppe Vidossich, Benedetto Soldati, Edmondo Solmi, Giuseppe Fusai, Abd-el-Kader Salza, Emilio Lovarini, Fortunato Pintor, Ugo Scoti-Bertinelli, Diana Magrini; in Vol.… Ler mais sobre este item

'Second Printing 1968']. "One of the most significant works of literary criticism of this century, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis undertakes a new and profound approach to major moments in Western literature ...filled with insights into the Western imagination and Western culture itself, in its repeated attempts to master and control reality and experience." Softcover. 563 pages, index; 20.5 cm.; fore-edge stained,… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, Fawcett Columbine 1994.. Soft Cover. xiv, 231 p. ; 20.5 cm. "In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading." Stock# 44,758. Vg /… Ler mais sobre este item

Soft Cover. 37 p.; printed paper covers to conform with the periodical; good+, Stock# 25295x. Reference; literary criticism.