William Jay Smith Compiler (4 results)

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 47 + index. A fine copy in dj, signed by the author. A collection of poems that celebrates love by such noted poets as Shakespeare, RL Stevenson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Carson McCullers & William Jay Smith. Smith is the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. Jane Dyer (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Dyer, Jane (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Well worn covers with still tight sturdy binding, besides multiple creases and rub marks covers have a half inch tear at tail of spine; text is mildly yellowed. This is a side by side French original and English translation edition. ".from the 14th Century to the present, from Deschamps to Prevert, and include Villon, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Hugo. Because their influence on modern writing has been so important, particular emphasis has been given to the poets since Baudelaire. The translations, many done especially for this anthology, have been as carefully chosen as the poems themselves. Among the translators are such writers as Richard Wilbur, Marianne Moore, Edmund Spenser, Katherine Anne Porter, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti." Contains biographies of the poets, of whom there are 47, and four Indexes one each for Titles, First Lines, Poets, and Translators. 226 pages. Roger Duvoisin (illustrator). Book.…

8vo. xiii, 225 pages. Illustrated by Jacques Hnizdovsky. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. INSCRIBED by Smith on the front free endpaper and with a two-page note by Smith on folded card, to a correspondent who had sent Smith comments on one of his poems. Smith recounts details of his poem "The Closing of the Rodeo": I write it in 1947 when I was a graduate student at Columbia University. I looked out the window one rainy day & saw the cowboys from Madison Square Garden, which was nearby, riding down the street after their rodeo. It was a strange sad sight - symbolizing for me not just the end of this rodeo but the end of a whole way of life in this country.". Toned jacket price-clipped and with light wear at edges, remainder spray on bottom sheet edges.…