Poems by Jh Prynne (129 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Fine. Condition: Fine | Pages: 720 | Language: English | Product Type: Books.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0907954014.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

74, (6) Seiten. Zweifarbiger OKart.-Einband. 22x14 cm * Jeremy Halvard Prynne (born 24 June 1936) is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival. Prynne grew up in Kent and was educated at St Dunstan's College, Catford, and Jesus College, Cambridge. He is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He retired in October 2005 from his posts teaching English Literature as a Lecturer and University Reader in English Poetry for the University of Cambridge and as Director of Studies in English for Gonville and Caius College; in September 2006 he retired from his position as Librarian of the College. Prynne's early influences include Donald Davie and Charles Olson. He was one of the key figures in the Cambridge group among the British Poetry Revival poets and a major contributor to The English Intelligencer. His first book, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems, was published in 1962, but Prynne has excluded it from his canon. His Poems (1982) collected all the work he wanted to keep in print, beginning with Kitchen Poems (1968), with expanded and updated editions appearing in 1999, 2005, and 2015. 2020 to 2022 has seen an unprecedented burst of productivity, with the publication of over two dozen small press chapbooks and several substantial collections, including book-length poems, sequences and a poetic novel. In addition to his poetry, Prynne has published some critical and academic prose. A transcription of a 1971 lecture on Olson's Maximus Poems at Simon Fraser University has had wide circulation. His longer works include a monograph on Ferdinand de Saussure, Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words, and self-published, very erudite book-length commentaries on individual poems by Shakespeare (Sonnets 94 and 15), George Herbert ("Love III") and Wordsworth ("The Solitary Reaper"). His long and passionate interest in China (he was a close friend and colleague of Joseph Needham) is reflected in an essay on New Songs from a Jade Terrace, an anthology of early Chinese love poetry, which was included in the second edition of the book from Penguin (1982). His collected poetry includes a poem composed in classical Chinese under the name Pu Ling-en, reproduced in his own calligraphy. In 2016, a lengthy interview with Prynne about his poetic practice appeared in The Paris Review as part of its "The Art of Poetry" series. (Quelle Wikipedia) Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. pp 319. Paperback. Original publisher's white covers, lettered black. ISBN: 0907954014 Light surface wear otherwise sound, very good. Decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good. Jacket Condition: Fair; faded to spine; a little light handling wear. Hard Cover Bloodaxe Books 2005.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover in very good condition with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is sunned. Edges are creased and nicked, including a small (neatly taped) tears at the spine head and the front lower edge. Board spine ends and lower board edges are slightly bumped. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0907954006.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Like new softcover book. Very scarce. Poetry. 440 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine, red boards lacking the dustjacket. First edition, the unsigned hardcover issue, one of 700 such. "These poems first appeared as news-items in The English Intelligencer".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Fine, burgandy boards in near fine, slightly spine-sunned, somewhat rubbed dustjacket (mylar protected), with errata slip laid in. 317 pp. First edition, the hardcover issue, simultaneous with the softcover. "This book includes the contents of twelve separate volumes by J. H. Prynne, from 'Kitchen Poems', published by Cape Goliard Press in 1968 to 'Down where changed' published by Ferry Press in 1979; together with some poems and sequences from that period, previously unpublished or printed only in reviews.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, hardcover limited printing. DJ intact, with mild to moderate edgewear and surface rubbing. Boards lightly bumped at corners, bowed inwards slightly. Spine lettering clear and bright. Binding cocked, but intact. Pages very slightly toned, else clean.

First trade edition. [30 pp]. Fine in boards. Lacks dust jacket. One of 650 trade hardcover copies.

First edition, first printing. Paperback issue. Original illustrated card wrappers, brown double endpapers. Printed on laid paper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. A few light surface marks to the rear panel. Priced 13/6 net to the rear panel. A very nice copy. Issued in an edition of 2700 copies: 2000 soft cover and 700 case bound. The US edition was issued the same year by Grossman Publishers Inc., New York in an edition of 1400 copies: 1000 soft cover and 400 case bound. 'Kitchen Poems' was essentially J. H. Prynne's second attempt at a first book. Of the earlier 'Force of Circumstance and Other Poems' (Routledge, 1962), the poet now recalls that even as it "was being prepared for publication, I'd fallen out of love with it [and] would probably have suppressed it if it had been a practical possibility at the time". It has never been reprinted and is absent from the various iterations of Prynne's collected poems, all of which open with 'Kitchen Poems' which, along with the following year's 'The White Stones' laid the foundations for the poet's still (rapidly) growing body of work. Prynne's former student and fellow poet, Keston Sutherland has asserted that the two books "set out [.] a prospectus for philosophic song so astronomically demanding that Manilius [the first century Roman poet and astronomer] might have shrunk from it in trepidation". If the singing is more characteristic of 'The White Stones', the more "acerbic and politically focused" 'Kitchen Poems' introduces to English poetry a new voice with an intellectual reach and confident command of 'non-poetic' languages (notably that of economics) recalling Pound and Charles Olson, but completely distinct: "And the drift of that is again to divert the / currency (as now in England / to the north-east). As, it was actually losing its grip / on the population: real people, slipping off / the face of that lovely ground, leaving the green & pleasant lands of Northumberland / to be nearer the belly & catch scraps / with the shit we set out so grudgingly / on plates for the blind to eat in gratitude." ('Die A Millionaire (pronounced "diamonds in the air")') (Tencer). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Paperback. Condition: About Fine. First Edition. First Impression. About Fine in cream colored card wrappers, the paperbound issue. Slight wrinkle to top front cover. 319pp. plus Index. Q21128.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 700 copies. A very nice copy.

First edition, first printing. Limited edition, signed by the author. Original red cloth lettered in silver to the spine, in dustwrapper. Dark brown endpapers, double title page printed in black and red, the four sections of the book divided by pale green patterned pages numbered in red. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the dustwrapper, rubbed, nicked, and a little browned to spine tips and corners. Clipped by the publisher with "Signed £6" written in pencil to the front flap to distinguish this signed and numbered copy from the trade edition. Signed and numbered by the author in black ink to the first page of the double title-page. This copy is number 2 of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author, out of an edition of 2700 copies: 2000 soft cover and 700 case bound. The US edition was issued the same year by Grossman Publishers Inc., New York in an edition of 1400 copies: 1000 soft cover and 400 case bound. 'Kitchen Poems' was essentially J. H. Prynne's second attempt at a first book. Of the earlier 'Force of Circumstance and Other Poems' (Routledge, 1962), the poet now recalls that even as it "was being prepared for publication, I'd fallen out of love with it [and] would probably have suppressed it if it had been a practical possibility at the time". It has never been reprinted and is absent from the various iterations of Prynne's collected poems, all of which open with 'Kitchen Poems'. Frst published in this beautifully produced form by Cape Goliard Press in 1968, the book, along with the following year's 'The White Stones' are the foundations of the poet's still (rapidly) growing body of work. Prynne's former student and fellow poet, Keston Sutherland boldly asserts that the two books "set out [.] a prospectus for philosophic song so astronomically demanding that Manilius [the first century Roman poet and astronomer] might have shrunk from it in trepidation". If the singing is more characteristic of The White Stones, the more "acerbic and politically focused" 'Kitchen Poems' introduces to English poetry a new voice, its intellectual reach and confident command of 'non-poetic' languages (notably that of economics) showing the influence of Pound and Charles Olson but utterly distinct: "And the drift of that is again to divert the / currency (as now in England / to the north-east). As, it was actually losing its grip / on the population: real people, slipping off / the face of that lovely ground, leaving the green & pleasant lands of Northumberland / to be nearer the belly & catch scraps / with the shit we set out so grudgingly / on plates for the blind to eat in gratitude." ('Die A Millionaire (pronounced "diamonds in the air")') (Tencer). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 54. Publisher's typographic light green paper over boards. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. An exceptionally crisp, bright copy, toned to jacket spine. Near fine. The poet's first published collection, which has never been included in his Collected Works.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, suppressed by the author. 54 pp. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. The jacket rubbed, spine a bit faded. Slight bumps at the spine ends.[Of-C2-S1].

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light yellow paper covered boards, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [x] 54 printed pages of text. Prynne suppressed this book, his first volume of poetry. A little foxing to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with just a little tanning of the paper to the spine and edges, not price clipped 12s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 6 of 50 copies signed by the author on the title page verso. Influenced by the American modernist Charles Olson, Prynne's second book of poems is now considered one of his finest, though his poetry was not widely appreciated until the publication of his 1982 collected poems (from which he excluded the poems in his first book, Force of Circumstance, which he had by then disowned). "The accomplishment of its language, the beauty of its music, and the seemingly hermetic quality of its significances, all combined to give an almost mythic quality of luminous opacity to the writing" (Poetry). Large octavo. Diagram to title pages printed in red, green patterned interleaves numbered in red. Original red boards, spine lettered in silver, brown endpapers. With dust jacket. Jacket rubbed, extremities nicked, partially erased pencil annotation to front flap, price-clipped: a fine copy in very good jacket.

First edition. Royal octavo. Unpaginated. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author, out of a total edition of 2700 copies, 700 of which are casebound.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good indeed, price-clipped dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine and very slightly rubbed at the edges.

First edition. Octavo. pp ix, 54. The author's rare first book, subsequently disowned by him. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "For Kim and Shane Townsend with very warmest wishes Jeremy Prynne". Very rarely does this author inscribe books and more rarely still does he use his first name.Slight bump at tail of spine. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper just a little nicked at top edge.

First edition. Octavo. pp ix, 54. The author's rare first book, subsequently disowned by him. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine.