Penelope Laurans (9 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fair. The memoirs and essays collected in The Third Kind of Knowledge encompass the many lives of a remarkable man. Poet, translator, critic, journalist, memoirist, scholar?the late Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) had an unusual range of gifts and lived a strikingly varied life in the literary and academic world. While growing up, his scholarly promise earned the attention of his mentor in classical studies, Dudley Fitts, and his poetic gifts the admiration first of Vachel Lindsay and later of T. S. Eliot (who took some of his college poems for publication in the Criterion). A reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in the thirties, Fitzgerald also spent time before and after the Second World War as a part of Henry Luce?s literary stable at Time, where he forged his close friendship with James Agee and edited the Books Department for the magazine. His friendship with Agee, and also with Flannery O?Connor (whose literary executor he became) as well as with other literary figures such as John Berryman, Allen Tate, and Caroline Gordon flourished during this period. In the early fifties he moved with his family to Italy, where he worked for six years on his celebrated translation of the Odyssey. His other classical translations?the Illiad, the Aeneid, and his translations of Euripides and Sophocles, several done in collaboration with Dudley Fitts?have become the the signal translations of our time. A renowned teacher as well as poet and scholar, Fitzgerald taught, over the years, at such institutions as Sarah Lawrence, Princeton, The New School, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Washington. His career culminated at Harvard where, in 1965, he was named Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. For fifteen years his course in Versification influenced a generation of younger poets, and his seminar in ?Homer, Virgil, and Dante? a generation of young scholars. The Third Kind of Knowledge displays the unusual breadth of Fitzgerald?s achievement and includes personal memoirs, reminiscences of literary friends, literary criticism of classical literature, and an interview on the art of translation. This volume has been prepared by his widow, Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald, following a plan begun by the author before his death.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. The memoirs and essays collected in The Third Kind of Knowledge encompass the many lives of a remarkable man. Poet, translator, critic, journalist, memoirist, scholar?the late Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) had an unusual range of gifts and lived a strikingly varied life in the literary and academic world. While growing up, his scholarly promise earned the attention of his mentor in classical studies, Dudley Fitts, and his poetic gifts the admiration first of Vachel Lindsay and later of T. S. Eliot (who took some of his college poems for publication in the Criterion). A reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in the thirties, Fitzgerald also spent time before and after the Second World War as a part of Henry Luce?s literary stable at Time, where he forged his close friendship with James Agee and edited the Books Department for the magazine. His friendship with Agee, and also with Flannery O?Connor (whose literary executor he became) as well as with other literary figures such as John Berryman, Allen Tate, and Caroline Gordon flourished during this period. In the early fifties he moved with his family to Italy, where he worked for six years on his celebrated translation of the Odyssey. His other classical translations?the Illiad, the Aeneid, and his translations of Euripides and Sophocles, several done in collaboration with Dudley Fitts?have become the the signal translations of our time. A renowned teacher as well as poet and scholar, Fitzgerald taught, over the years, at such institutions as Sarah Lawrence, Princeton, The New School, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Washington. His career culminated at Harvard where, in 1965, he was named Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. For fifteen years his course in Versification influenced a generation of younger poets, and his seminar in ?Homer, Virgil, and Dante? a generation of young scholars. The Third Kind of Knowledge displays the unusual breadth of Fitzgerald?s achievement and includes personal memoirs, reminiscences of literary friends, literary criticism of classical literature, and an interview on the art of translation. This volume has been prepared by his widow, Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald, following a plan begun by the author before his death.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used Good. Jacket with Mylar.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 genealogical table, portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index. Subjects; Knox family. Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott 1888-1957. Knox, E. V. (Edmund Valpy) 1881-1971. Knox, Wilfred L. (Wilfred Lawrence) 1886-1950. Knox, A. D. (Alfred Dillwyn) 1884-1943. Knox, Dillwyn. Knox, Edmund "Evoe". Knox, Ronald. Knox, Wilfred. Knox family family. England ; Biography. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 genealogical table, portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index. Subjects; Knox family. Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott 1888-1957. Knox, E. V. (Edmund Valpy) 1881-1971. Knox, Wilfred L. (Wilfred Lawrence) 1886-1950. Knox, A. D. (Alfred Dillwyn) 1884-1943. Knox, Dillwyn. Knox, Edmund "Evoe". Knox, Ronald. Knox, Wilfred. Knox family family. England ; Biography. 1 Kg.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Chapbook. A fine copy. A clean, unmarked copy. Note: Very light fading on spine (as pictured). Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. One of the 100 numbered copies (#61, marked on colophon) of this collection of poetry dedicated to Patricia Willis (one of which is written by McClatchy). …

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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Magazine. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. 398pp. Light foxing on page edges, else fine. Paper tipped in "In Memoriam [sic] Carroll F. Terrell, February 21, 1917 - November 29, 2003, Founding Editor of *Paideuma*, Founding Director of the National Poetry Foundation"; Hugh Kenner, January 7, 1923 - November 24, 2003, Senior Editor of *Paideuma*, Lifelong Friend and Supporter of NPF." This special volume is dedicated to James Laughlin, 1914 - 1997, & Guest-Edited by Emily Mitchell Wallace. Contributions by Rodney Grove Dennis, Tom Vitale, James Atlas, Joel Conarroe, Anne Conover, William Eric Williams, Hught Witemeyer, Hayden Carruth, Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald, Samuel A. Streit, Emily Mitchell Wallace, Terry Halladay, Leslie A. Morris, Patricia C. Willis, John A. Harrison, Ezra Pound, Zhaoming Qian, Richard Taylor, Demetres Tryphonopoulos, William McNaughton, Patrizia De Rachewiltz, and fourteen poems by James Laughlin. …