9780856352294 - Avoidance of Literature: Collected Essays von Sisson, C. H. (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:0856352292.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Hbk, ix, 581 pages ; 23 cm. Blank ffep missing and ex-lib stamp on verso of t.p. o/w good condition. Dust-wrapper also in pretty good condition. Charles Maurras and the idea of the Patriot King -- Remarks on a letter of Junius -- Prejudice as an aid to government -- Vauvenargues and Les liaisons dangereuses -- English liberalism -- A study in public opinion -- The argument for federal union -- Reflections on a bureaucrats' war -- Helps to a new world -- The politics of Andrew Marvell -- Christian discrimination -- James Joyce -- The civil service -- Time present's children -- A German on the German question -- Politics and morals -- Charles Peguy -- Epitaph on Nuremburg -- Bertrand Russell on 'cosmic impiety' -- Heinrich Heine -- Romantic comfort -- Max Weber -- The India of the sahibs -- The pleasures of literature -- What is culture? -- Britain must take it -- A philosophy of science -- The crisis in the university -- Ego scriptor : the Pisan cantos of Ezra Pound -- Order and anarchy -- Charles Maurras -- Reflections on Marvell's Ode The nature of public administration -- A note on the monarchy -- Autobiographical reflections on politics -- Church and state -- Natural history -- Leisure and the arts -- The profession of letters, or down with culture -- Art and morality -- The study of affairs -- Second thoughts on Marvell -- William Barnes -- Sevenoaks essays -- Is there a Church of England? -- The schism between church and state -- The civil service -- The politics of Wyndham Lewis -- Wyndham Lewis's study of himself -- W.B. Yeats -- Yeats and Swift -- T.S. Eliot -- Ezra Pound -- Edward Thomas -- Ford Madox Ford : saltavit et placuit -- Hardy and Barnes --The case of Walter Bagehot -- Fashions of government -- What about England -- Politics and the pulpit -- For the sixtieth birthday of George Barker -- Two forewords -- Geoffrey Hill -- Wyndham Lewis as Critic -- H.D-- Good sense and sensibility -- Rhyme and reason -- Reading in depth -- Martin Seymour-Smith -- David Jone's Dying Gaul -- The poetry of Jonathan Swift -- The comedy of criticism -- Poetry and myth -- Some reflections on American poetry -- A four letter word -- Looking back on Maurras -- Intimations of the eternal -- Coleridge revisited -- Editorial from PNR 3 -- Editorial from PNR 6. Subject English literature. h1858 / m15202.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp ix, 581. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the editor on the title page, "For Victor Ross, from the typesetter, Michael Schmidt." ISBN: 0856352292 Slight creasing at spine otherwise very good. Signedes.