THE POUND ERA
Rare first printing of Kenner's most important work, a monumental study of modernist literature and an argument for Ezra Pound's centrality to it.
Rare first printing of Kenner's most important work, a monumental study of modernist literature and an argument for Ezra Pound's centrality to it.
First edition of this collection of eighteen of Kitchen's critical essays on contemporary writers, with a foreword by Stephen Corey.
Scarce first printing of these Knoxian verses, variously Etonian, Oxonian, and Sherlockian.
First edition of this critical study of Shakespearean readings by Coleridge, Keats, Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes, inscribed by Leinwand to contemporary poet Stanley Plumly.
Stark and haunting card of mourning from the September 10th, 1898 funeral of Stephane Mallarmé.
First printing of this study of the Victorian reception of Romantic writers, with a warm note from the author to contemporary poet and Keats biographer Stanley Plumly.
Scarce, lovely first edition of Penrose's neo-gothic epistolary novella.
First edition of Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime.
Mimeographed reading list from Sylvia Plath's Fall 1952 sophomore English 221 class at Smith College, with her handwritten notes — including library call numbers for the titles on the list and comments on an upcoming blind date.
Sylvia Plath's annotated copy, read in her first year of study for the Tragedy Paper at Cambridge, with marginal notes connecting the text to her own 1953 breakdown immortalized in THE BELL JAR and a prophetic description of Ariel as a poet.
First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century.
First edition of this collection of short stories, poems, and critical essays from the first five years of ACCENT magazine, with work by Richard Wright, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, John Berryman, and many others.
Modern scholarly edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, published as part of Ashgate's Nineteenth Century Series.
Limited first edition of Starrett's anthology of literary "flotsam and jetsam" that pleased his eclectic taste.
First edition of Stein's great Modernist prose poem that reveals the avant-garde in the ordinary.
Uncommon limited edition of these collected poems on a shared theme — by two Elizabethan conspirators and two 20th century war criminals, all four condemned to death.
Lovely three-volume pocket edition of Dryden's translation of the AENEID, ECOLOGUES, and GEORGICS, printed by the famed Scottish Enlightenment printers, the Foulis brothers.
Landmark second edition of the epic American poetry collection, the first to include among the most famous blurbs in literature — Emerson's complimentary quote stamped, without permission, on the book's spine.
Signed limited first edition of Wilbur's 21 illustrated "clerihews for the telephone," useful scripts in verse for recording on the outgoing-message cassette tapes of the answering machines of yore, written for publisher Stuart Wright.
Signed limited first edition of these poems by the Pulitzer Prize winner, illustrated by Engelland, a co-founder of the Deerfield Press.
Original catalogue for an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of John Keats, held by the Wordsworth Trust.
First edition of this roman à clef by the distinguished American poet, composed between 1950 and 1969.