Monroe Spears Editor (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Printing. Except for library stamping on top and bottom page edges, ex-library book is a clean and unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Softcover Edition, Printing Not Listed. Part of the Twentieth Century Views Series. softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softback Good complete solid reading copy.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Wraps have wear, spine is creased. Text is free from markings. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Stanley Wyatt, Cover Design (illustrator). Since his brilliant debut on the literary scene, the career of W. H. Auden has been marked by seeming self-contradictions and sharp fluctuations in critical reputation. Today, however, his is recognized as one of the major voices of twentieth century poetry. Originally the leading spokesman of a group of iconoclastic, Marxist-oriented English poets, Auden confounded many admirers by returning to Anglicanism and emigrating to the United States. Using an extraordinary variety of poetic forms--from the traditional to the most experimental--he has evolved deeply personal symbolism, bringing the world of public events and the private world of the poet into meaningful conjunction. Among the authors of these essays are: Christopher Isherwood: Auden's close friend from childhood and his literary mentor for many years (as well as his collaborator on three plays), speaks with a unique authority about Auden's early verse. Stephen Spender: After Spender's, the next two essays, both dating from the mid-Fifties, present the judgments of distinguished American women and men of letters on Auden's work. Cleanth Brooks: The second early essay (1939) is that by Cleanh Brooks, who (in a book which, by the way, Auden reviewed favorably in "The Nation") was one of the first to apply the "new criticism" fruitfully to Auden. Concerning that his affinities are with the true central tradition of English poetry as it appears most plainly in the seventeenth-century "Metaphysical" poets. Marianne Moore: Marianne Moore's essay is of interest as the opinion of an American poet of the first rank, whose verse has had a distinct influence on some of Auden's later work, especially that in syllabic meter. She belongs to no critical school or trend, but displays the reactions of her own fine sensibility and keen intelligence as a kind of poetry very different from her own. Edmund Wilson: Well-known critic and man of letters. Included in this book are Chronology of Important Dates, Notes on the Editor and Authors, Selected Bibliography. There is smudging to the page edges. The front and back covers have corner creases and some of the printed pages. The pages are clean and free of any markings or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 20th Century Views Series. 184pp. Slight wear. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First printing, April 1968. Minor discoloration to pages. Minor wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Several sticker damage spots on the front cover. Some rubbing wear to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete issue, original wrapper. Includes work by Howard Nemerov ("The Poetry of Wallace Stevens") , Arthur Mizener (on Eliot) , and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete issue, original wrapper. Includes work by Edward Dahlberg & Sir Herbert Read ("A Literary Correspondence") , John Hollander (on "Twelfth Night") , James Dickey, and others.

Small 4to.; Stiff wraps, softcover; 170 pages; contents include works by: Thomas Mabry, Allen Tate, Patrick Cuttwell, Robert B. Heilman, George Woodcock, Edward McCrady, Dannie Abse, Scott Bates, Marius Bewley, Richard Ellmann, Paul Engle, Russell Kirk, John Logan, W.S. Merwin, Oliver Ric, and Reed Whittemore; sunned and heavily edgeworn wraps else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Good clean copy, pale blue wraps, edges of oversized covers with some wear and creases, Includes essay on Wallace Stevens by Howard Nemerov.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked. Elongated cover edges are folded under.

Magazine. Condition: Very good condition. SOFTCOVER. includes Essays on Thomas Mann by Erich Heller & by Robert B. Heilman.

Magazine. Condition: Very good condition. SOFTCOVER. includes Christ and the Unicorn by Allen Tate & an essay by Robert Penn Warren.

Soft. Condition: Good. Good clean solid copy, edges worn, small ink marking front cover else clean, includes work by Charles Tomlinson, Lionel Trilling and others.

Paperback. pp363-518, essays, opinion, reviews, poetry, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in blue wraps. Also: English Literature & American Education. The Creation of the Universe. Science: Servant or Master of Man?

Paperback. pp179-362, essays, opinion, reviews, poetry, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in blue wraps. Also: Into Many a Green Valley by Harrison. Prognois by Warren.

Paperback. 178p., essays, opinion, reviews, poetry, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in blue wraps. Also: Eugenmio Montale's Poetry. The London Theater. Pope & the Common Reader. Early Walker Percy.

Paperback. pp349-524, essays, opinion, reviews, poetry, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in blue wraps. Also: "What Quarter of the Night." Moon Solo: the last poems of LaForgue. Drama in England.

Paperback. pp171-348, essays, opinion, reviews, poetry, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in blue wraps. Also: Claudel as Dramatist. The French Novel. Rediscovering Ovid.

Paperback. pp533-722, essays, opinion, reviews, poetry, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in blue wraps. Also: Rilke & the Angels, Eliot & the Shrines. Science & Poetry in England. A Truce of God for Melville. Melville's Parable of the Walls.

Paperback. 174p., essays, opinion, reviews, poetry, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in blue wraps. Also: "Hamlet" When New. The Neo-Aristotelians of Chicago.

Paperback. pp525-706, essays, opinion, reviews, poetry, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in blue wraps. Also: Three Allegorists: Brecht, Wilder, Eliot. Mrs. Bennet & the Dark Gods.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 66, Numbers 1 to 4 bound together. Original paper covers retained. Includes work by Walker Percy, Robert Penn Warren, and Ted Hughes.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Binding is cracked preceding the contents page. Slightly cocked. Covers have slight edge wear. Front cover has owner's brief notation and an author's name underlined. ; Contents include Sylvia Plath - The Fifteen Dollar Eagle - A Story; Edward Dahlberg - Because I Was Flesh - An Autobiography; and James Dickey - The Suspect in Poetry, or Everyman as Detective.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Good clean copy, pale blue wraps, edges of oversized covers with some wear and creases, small ink marking front cover else clean, binding solid. Includes 4 poems by Wallace Stevens.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A solid copy of The Sewanee Review Volume LXII, Number 4, containing the story "The Displaced Person" by Flannery O'Connor. Also contains Lawrence and Class by F.R. Leavis, A Few Bricks From Babel by Howard Nemerov, WHat is a Poem by Eliseo Vivas and poems by Stephen Spender, James Dickey, James Wright, Reed Whittemore, John Logan. Creasing to the spine and toning around the edges of the covers. Interior fine, unmarked. Close to very good.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavos, two volumes. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jackets. Faded tan spines with blue titling. Dust jackets significantly sunned at spines and tops of boards. Moderate chipping and wear to edges and corners of dust jackets. Light bumping to edges and corners of boards. Text blocks with list plus age toning and scattered pencil annotations. Both volumes with the bookplate of Ronald Paulson, leading expert on William Hogarth and former professor of English literature at Yale and Johns Hopkins. Shelved in Room G. 1389318. Special Collections.