Literary Criticism and Historical Understanding: Selected Papers from the English Institute
by Damon, Phillip, editor;
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1967. x, 190 pp. Edited with a foreword by Phillip Damon. Very light wear. Contents: Historical Interpretation and the History of Criticism by Robert Marsh, University of Chicago; History and Idea in Renaissance Criticism by Phillip Damon, University of California; Roles of the Victorian Critic: Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin by Edward Alexander, University of Washington; Two Boethian Speeches in Troilus and Criseyde and Chaucerian Irony by Peter Elbow, Brandeis University; Autobiography and Art: An Elizabethan Borderland by Rudolf Gottfried, Indiana University; The Keys are at the Palace: A Note on Criticism and Biography by Francis Noel Lees, University of Manchester; William Carlos Williams and the Whitman Tradition by James E. Breslin, University of California; Supervising Committee, 1966; Program; and Registrants. ''When my abodes prefixed time is spent, / My cruell fayre streight bids me wnd my way: / but then from heauen most hideous stormes are sent / as willing me against her will to stay. / Whom then shall I or heauen or her obay?''. First Edition. Paper-covered Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Veery Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000622
- Title
- Literary Criticism and Historical Understanding: Selected Papers from the English Institute
- Author
- Damon, Phillip, editor;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- literary criticism, chaucer, williams, whitman, renaissance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism;
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