9780394378800 - Voices & visions, The poet in America, With illustrations, (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition, 1st printing (starts w/2). 528pp. Companion to the PBS Television series, Produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition (slight shelfwear to corners & edges, o/w unmarked). Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound, Moore, Eliot, Crane, Hughes, Bishop, Lowell, Plath. "The inexhaustible play of poetic language, in which each word has its weight and duration and musical note as surely as in a fugue, ensures that poems give off a different shimmer at different times to the same reader and certainly at the same time to different readers. What is always the same is the point, the concentration, the intensity of the form . . . The poets in this book have been admired by other poets for having so often exhibited all the virtues of poetry at one time. [] We have hoped by these essays to show these virtues at work, to suggest how much American culture owes to the formulating powers of these poets' minds, how much the American language owes to their preservation of its idiom, how much the world owes to them for representing American consciousness and American beauty in their lines. [] Though we cannot do full justice here to the beauty and power of the American imagination and the American language as they are embodied in the poetry of two centuries, we hope that these essays will bring new readers to some poets, will direct some readers to new poems, and will offer for all readers a view of the range and play of the American imagination, a sense of the complication, depth, and grandeur of American poetry."--From the Introduction by Helen Vendler, on the back cover. "An illustrated tie-in volume to the thirteen-part PBS series of the same title that aired in January 1988, featuring leading critics' essays on the major American poets. More than 175 black-and-white photographs." [publisher copy] "A college text and companion volume to a new PBS television series, this collection of essays on 13 American poets from Whitman to Plath is traditional in selection and treatment. Punctuated with poems and illustrated with photographs and manuscript facsimiles showing authors' revisions, the book seeks to explore the poets' 'American-ness' but often runs short of the historical, social, and biographical background needed for the task. Occasionally an essay presents a labored academic 'explanation' giving an entirely different and unnecessary reading from the common-sense reading most readers find enjoyable. But the many useful essays on [these canonical poets] make this a solid introductory guide."--Bettina Drew, City College, CUNY, Library Journal. Intact paper cover features Fred Marcellino's eagle/sky/quill illustration. Fine paperback is solid & unmarked, w/square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:0394378806.