Woods Gurli (9 results)

Condition: Good. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "PLAIN LUCK" is how the poet George Johnston accounts for his appointment to the young Carleton University, soon after his discharge from the R.C.A.F. and service in the Second World War. It was more than luck that kept them together. He was, as he has said, a working academic, "not ornamental." For twenty-nine years, while he was creating some of the truest and brightest poems of our literature, he was a leading scholar of Old Norse and a charismatic teacher and colleague. "He brought such a sense of fresh delight, such spontaneity to Chaucer," writes Robert MacNeil in Wordstruck, "that I caught it like a virus." To those who fell under his spell, he imparted a compelling ideal of clean, unaffected scholarship and a persistent passion for the English language, for what it owes to the speech of ordinary people, and for the literature that is crafted out of it. The Old Enchanter is a celebration of George Johnston's eighty-fifth birthday by students, colleagues, and friends. It is a miscellany, containing poems, essays (academic and otherwise), and a collective reminiscence of his years in Ottawa. It is headed by his own account of the trip he made by bicycle through the Germany of 1936. The poems come from poets who have been touched in different ways by his presence. The essays have to do with his poetry and various of his enthusiamsOld-English and Old-Norse literature, translation, spoken English, popular narrative and popular culture, poetry in time of war, life on the shore of the North Atlantic.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Presumed First. Very good clean unmarked copy, only default is the back few pages are slightly bumped and creased; A celebration of one of Canada's post war poets and a great authority on Norse epics; Poems are contributed by those who knew him. Published to celebrate his 85th birthday; 258 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Paperback, no marks, with 258 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo. 258 pp., b/w photographs and illustrations. Signed (no inscription) by George Johnston on the half-title page. A celebration of the poet's eighty-fifth birthday by students, colleagues, and friends. Signed By Subject.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor corner rubbing, very little wear overall. Text is clean. 'The work of Isak Dinesen, nom de plume of the Danish writer Karen Blixen, has become increasingly central to modern literature since her death in 1962. The fourteen original essays of this volume respond to recent Dinesen scholarship and criticism in terms of current theoretical orientations - feminism and gender studies, poststructuralism, postmodernism, narratology. The Canadian, American, and Danish authors offer readings of a cross-section of Dinesen's writing from the early autobiographical Out of Africa, the basis of an Oscar-winning Hollywood film.' xvi+240 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. The Old Enchanter A Portrait of George Johnson. Cameron, M. I. & Campbell, Douglas & Woods, Gurli. Published by Penumbra Press, Ottawa, 1999. 258p. trade paperback, covers clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, fine condition--85th birthday of this poet and scholar of Old Norse--30.00--.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 258 pp. Photos. Light edgewear. A miscellany of poems, essays, reminiscence in celebration of the 85th birthday of this poet and scholar of Old Norse. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. 240 pp. Index. References. Edgewear, corners rubbed. Fourteen esays examing Dinesen's work. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.