Spears Monroe K (138 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Softcover Edition. Softcover pamphlet is No. 47 in the University of Minnesota Pamphlets On American Writers Series, and is a clean and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. aFirst Edition First Printing. Shelf 1118 Text clean; volume 1 only; book tight; paper lightly tanned; a bit of light foxing to edge of paper; covers have a bit of light general wear with some light browning near edges and especially to spine strip; Not a book club (BC)copy. No previous owner name, not ex library, not a remainder, smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Color and b&w illustrations (illustrator). 80pp [ex-library with label at bottom front cover and large surface tear to rear cover, else Very Good+] Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Color and b&w illustrations (illustrator). 80pp [ex-library with label at bottom front cover extending across spine, else Very Good+] Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Good with edgewear and chipping to Dust Jacket and some underlining/marks to text. Poets; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 404 pages.

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

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. V5 - A first edition hardcover book SIGNED by author (first name only) and inscribed to previous owner in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, and crease on the edges, light scratches and rubbing, discoloration, and light shelf wear. Book has light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 267 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good Condition paperback 394 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Publisher label under DJ flap. Otherwise appears unused with no marks.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. There is a small paw-print stamped on the front free endpaper indicating that this book was sent out for review. Otherwise, a Fine, internally clean, solid hard cover in a complete Fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in. First Printing.

Hardcover. 267pp. Near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding tight in a near new dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 299pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. L6 - A first edition (numberline starts with "1") hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Monroe K. Spears to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, wrinkling and diagonal crease on the front flap, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 129 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In One Writer's Reality, Monroe K. Spears eloquently considers the kinds of reality writers have to confront. Spears presents not a single rigorous argument but varied approaches to the basic thesis that the writer is not essentially different from the reader, and that the writer's relation to reality is crucially important. Spears adopts a broad treatment of reality, from the largest scale in "Cosmology" to the smallest and most personal scale in "A Happy Induction." "Writing as a Vocation" defines the economic reality of writing as "unimportant to the writer; what must in the end matter to him, as to the reader, are the deeper realities of place and community, human relations and emotions, and aesthetic form, and ultimately the transmutation of daily life into the ideal reality of form in art." Examples of reality as seen by two very different poets, James Dickey and W. H. Auden, and by novelist Reynolds Price are considered. Two essays relate the history of the University of the South and the Sewanee Review to the evolving culture of the South that Allen Tate and others, central to the Sewanee story, created. One speculative and wide-ranging essay on the expression of emotion in music and poetry compares Schubert and Keats. Considering himself as representative of the influences of particular times and places, and of intellectual and academic climates, Spears concludes by addressing the realities of his own career in literature. Intended for the aspiring writer and the general reader, One Writer's Reality is an intimate perusal of the working interests and practices of a formidable American critic. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 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.

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. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Spectrum Books (1964). Softcover book in Near fine condition. A clean, tight copy. Some shelfware. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Vergil And The Christian World: Sewanee Review V61, No. 1, Winter, 1953. Book.

hardcover. No Jacket. New York. 1970. Oxford University Press. 1st American Edition. Some Penned Underlining and Notes Inside, Otherwise Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket. 278 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literary Criticism. DESCRIPTION - Using the dark, mythic image of the Greek God, resurrected by Nietzsche at the last century's close, as the prototype of the modern spirit in literature, Mr. Spears attempts an inclusive definition of modernism as word, idea, and historical movement. He explores in particular the original modernism first manifest in American and British poetry about 1909, and its relation to later currents in literature and in the other arts. His interest is in the widening of perspectives and in cultural synthesis, and his chief concern is with showing the relation of poetry to the mainstream of contemporary culture. inventory #19125 Some Penned Underlining and Notes Inside, Otherwise Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 184p, a VG pbk.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. used hardcover in dust jacket. jacket is somewhat worn about the edges, with a number of small chips and tears at the extremeties, though still largely intact. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's name, chipped and torn dust jacket. 275 pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Protective cover). This copy is in good condition. The jacket has light rubbing and edgewear. Text is clean and tight in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

Condition: Very Good. Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota 1965. 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown Good. in No Jacketas Issued dj. ex-lib in hardcover library binding; 48 pages. F First Edition. Binding is H Hard Cover. 12 vo.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.