Search Results: Literary Criticism from Veery Books

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1951. 32 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 11 May 1950. ''Yet we may consider that, though journalism may kill a man, it quickens his life while it lasts--of all men in educated callings, unless he has a college fellowship to rest upon, he is least able to let himself degenerate into the too well-known type described by La Fontaine: 'Il se leve un matin sans savoir pourquoi faire. / Il se promene, il va, i dessein, sans sujet. / Il se couche le soir sans savoir d'ordinaire / Ce que dans le jour il a fait.' ''. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1948. 27 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration and chipping near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 7 May 1947. ''When Theodore Roosevelt, the first of that name to be a famous President of the United States, was in England after his bold exploration of the Amazon, he was invited to Oxford to give the Romanes Lecture. It was a great occasion. The Vice-Chancellor and Doctors were assembled in the Divinity School, preparatory to wlking in procession acorss to the Sheldonian Theatre, where the lecture was to be delivered. Roosevelt had written to me saying that he had been quite convinced by my book on Homer, and as he had previously expressed his agreement with Lang's books, this put him in a slightly difficult position towards Lang. The President came up to me and said: 'Are you on speaking terms with Andrew Lang?'… Read More

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1952. 32 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 14 November 1951. ''Carlyle described [Knox] as'the one Scotchman to whom, of all others, his country and the world owe a debt'l while, even within the last few years, an American historian has recorded his opinion that John Knox was 'possibly the most important man in Scottish history', certainly a man to be 'reckoned great by any estimate based upon influence'. Such was--as it still is--the tradition which Andrew Lang encountered when he came to write the second volume of his History of Scotland; and his endeavor to 'get behind' that tradition (to use his own words) led one ardent advocate of Knox to review Lang's volume under the title 'Knox in the Hands of the Philistines'.''. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over… Read More

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1951. 32 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 11 May 1949. ''You will see that I am leading you gently but firmly towards what is generally admitted to be the greatest 'Serbonian bog' of History, where 'armies whole' of critics have 'sunk', in vain effort to find bottom, and from which few have emerged with credit.''. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Munich: Bruckmann 104. pp. Soiling to white wraps and bump/crease to bottom outside corner. Articles, poems in Spanish and sometimes German. Richly illustrated. Includes: Romualdo Brughetti--Alumbramiento; Ernesto Sabato--Hombre e Mujer, Consideraciones y re-consideraciones; Moderne argentinische Dichtung: Eduardo Romano, Raul Yurkievich, Miguel Angel Bustos, Horacio Salas; Dieter Janig--Arte y realidad; Hans Paul Bahrdt--Posibilidades de la educacion estetica en nuestro tiempo; Hildegard Urner--La sombra; Dora Isella Russell--El siglo de Rainer Maria Rilke Con motivo del cenentario de su naciamento; Hombres de teatro: Vida y opiniones de la fotografa--Rosemarie Clausen; Bartomeu Melia y Olga Blinder Aquellos--Pai-Tavyvera que por primera vez dibujaron; Estuardo Nunez--La ciencia alemana y los fundamentos de la investigacion peruanista; Atahualpa Yupanqui--Indianische Gedichte; Ramiro Lagos Castro--Hispanoamerica, Brasil e Angloamerica; Mario de Andrade--Modistinnen; Siegfried Melchinger--El placer… Read More

New York: Fordham University Press, 1964. 215 pp. Book with corner bump, sticker ghosts. DJ with rubbing, chipping, tears, but generally complete. 'In the mid-nineteenth century, whan Frederic Mistral gathered round him at Avignon the brilliant group that formed the Felibrige with a view to stimulating interest in the Provencal language, he had little idea of the scope of the movement that then begann. The seven 'gaid felibres provencaux; brought about a revival of letters that was to go hand and hand with the rehabilitation of the old language and make the people of the south of France conscious of their race and heritage. As the principal poet of the group, Mistral was to produce his epic-romance Mireio, a story of frustrated lave in shich Moeric grandeur and the charm and simplicity of Theocritus are situated in the fair land of the valley of the Rhone. In his verse the pagan, sensual world of romance is colored with a delicate Christian mysticism and filled out with the loftier and more… Read More

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… Read More

New York/London: John Lane The Bodley Head/Dodd Mead, 1928. 219 pp. Spine considerably darkened and beginning to wear at top and bottom. Boards are clean and bright with minimal wear. Pages clean and mostly uncut, however book opens to sewing in three places. Decorative endpapers. Two-color TP, graphics on TP and half-title. Init caps throughout. ' ''Yes,'' I answered, ''Heraclitus was probably the first to discover the malady of pessimism; and that is why Nietzsche hailed him as a master.''//''Clearly,'' answered France musingly, ''Only, whether our philosophic ideas sadden or console, it is, in either case, the result of a delusion. Yes, of a great delusion. We are wont, in fact, to imagine that, by a long process of thought and reflection, it is possible for us to unveil any secret we will. We deem that no department of knowledge is closed to us. Proud of his attributes as a thinking animal, man has rashly sought to build up, on the basis… Read More

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1969. Near fine, brown cloth, no dj. Some sticker shadows on ffep. Contents: Foreward; Introduction S. S. Hussey; Some Aspects of the Process of Revision in Piers Plowman, G. H. Russell; The Tearing of the Pardon, Rose Mary Woolf; Justice, Kingship and the Good Life in the Second Part of Piers Plowman, P. M. Kean; Words, Works and Will: Theme and Structure in Piers Plowman, J. A. Burrow; Conscience: The Frustration of Agony, Priscilla Jenkins; Piers and the Image of God in Man, Barbara Raw; The Role of the Dreamer in Piers Plowman, David Mills; Action and Contemplation in Piers Plowman, T. P. Dunning; The Langland Country, R. W. V. Elliott; Charity in Piers Plowman, W. O. Evans; Satire in Piers Plowman, S. T. Knight; Chaucer's Contemporary, J. A. W. Bennett; Notes; Index. . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2001. Contents: A lesson from Michelangelo; Wilfred Owen's juvenilia; Philip Larkin: wounded by unshrapnel; Goodbye to all that?; The Orpheus of Ulster; Becoming Marianne Moore; The many arts of Elizabeth Bishop; Lady Lazarus; Men, women, and beasts; Auden on Shakespeare's sonnets; Blake Auden and James Auden; Auden in the end, notes, sources. . First American edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.