Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence
10 best books like Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence (Allen Ginsberg): Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Leaves of Grass, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, The Waste Land, The Poetry of Robert Frost, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Gnomes, Rain in the Trees, Broken Music
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0072434171 |
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."
As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0879234628 |
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?
In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060595183 |
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of
The Doors of Perception
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| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0393974995 |
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
The Poetry of Robert Frost
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0805005013 |
The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, scrupulously...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486281221 |
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...
| Author | Rien Poortvliet |
| ISBN | 0810909650 |
Abrams launched Gnomes into the hearts of Americans in 1977 and quickly racked up astrognomic sales in bookstores across the country, ultimately achieving a 62-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. Come join in the 20th-anniversary fun as gnomania strikes again!Did you know that gnome...
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 0394758587 |
A literary event -- a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry -- The Rain in the Trees is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication five years ago of his Opening the Hand.
Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments...
| Author | Sting |
| ISBN | 0385338651 |
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as...
| Author | E.B. White |
| ISBN | 0060932236 |
The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.
Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer. "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone with a few...
| Author | John Clellon Holmes |
| ISBN | 0141188391 |
The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neil Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began On the Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures....
| Author | Robinson Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0804741085 |
In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers—in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and...
| Author | Edwin Way Teale |
| ISBN | 0396069746 |
I enjoyed this book tremendously and felt seriously homesick for the farm I lived on in central NH during my teens and twenties. Part of our land was a big swamp, home to a variety of wildlife we were privileged to watch. Teale's book displays his great knowledge of the wild world and its inhabitants, but...
| Author | Rien Poortvliet |
| ISBN | 0810916142 |
Rien Poortvliet and Wil Huygen, collaborating once again as they did so successfully in Abrams' best-selling GNOMES, now reveal to thousands of eager readers their recent encounters in the mysterious world of those tiny folk. SECRETS OF THE GNOMES is the fascinating account of a long, arduous journey...
| Author | Diane Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0060199865 |
In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.
Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in...
| Author | Beverley Nichols |
| ISBN | 0881927104 |
Rating Clarification: 4.5 Stars
This is one of those books that would have forever remained hidden from my reading world without the auspices of Goodreads in general and my GR buddy Leslie in particular (to Leslie - thanks for your squee-worthy review which led me to read this).
Written...
| Author | Tsung Hwa Jou |
| ISBN | 0804813574 |
In The Dao of Taijiquan, the author, Jou, Tsung Hwa, himself bears witness to the ability of Tai-Chi to relieve the body of pent-up tension and rejuvenate the spirit in a thorough study of the techniques and classical texts of this ancient martial art. In order to create a serious textbook that explains...
History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
| Author | James Mooney |
| ISBN | 0914875191 |
Originally published as two separate volumes by the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees has enduring significance for both Native Americans and non-Indian people. The book contains the full texts of James Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee (1900)...
Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0007105045 |
Tree and Leaf, J.R.R. Tolkien
Repackaged to feature Tolkien's own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, 'On Fairy-Stories' and the story that exemplifies this, 'Leaf by Niggle'. Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will...
