Poems and Translations
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| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 1883011957 |
America's greatest nature writer and a political thinker of worldwide impact, Henry David Thoreau's remarkable essays reflect his speculative and probing cast of mind. In his poems, he gave voice to his private sentiments and spiritual aspirations in the plain style of New England speech. Now, The...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0374125384 |
All the poems of a great 20th-century poet
From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998), Ted Hughes was one of postwar literature's truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume gathers all of his work, from his earliest poems (published only in journals)...
| Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
No American writer of the 19th century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over 25 years. Poems and Other Writings offers a full-scale literary...
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 1931082197 |
Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at the age of 38, he published The Sheltering Sky and became widely recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. By the time of his death in 1999 he had become a unique and legendary figure in modern...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1883011094 |
This Library of America volume is one of five that make available for the first time in new, complete, and authoritative editions the astonishing abundance of invention and unwavering intensity of the aesthetic vision of Henry James as displayed in more than one hundred world-famous stories ranging...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 0940450550 |
The four novels in this Library of America collection show Faulkner at the height of his powers and fully demonstrate the range of his genius. They explore the tragic and comic aspects of a South haunted by its past and uncertain of its future.
In the intricate, spellbinding masterpiece Absalom,...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 1883011183 |
After a brilliant literary career writing in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov immigrated to the United States in 1940 and went on to an even more brilliant one in English. Between 1939 and 1974 he wrote the autobiography and eight novels now collected by the Library of America in an authoritative three-volume...
| 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 | Louis MacNeice |
| ISBN | 0571233813 |
'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'
Louis MacNeice's prescription...
| Author | Elizabeth Bishop |
| ISBN | 1598530178 |
Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, editors James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody...
| Author | Louise Bogan |
| ISBN | 0374524610 |
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.
Roman Fountain
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| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| ISBN | 1883011450 |
The Library of America is not a cheap publishing house, but their editions are worth every penny you pay for them.
Stevens is an incredibly enigmatic poet you'll spend hours trying to figure out. Sometimes you'll crack his works, sometimes you won't, sometimes you will and you won't like what you...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0393924912 |
For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers extensive apparatus to help readers fully...
| Author | George Oppen |
| ISBN | 0811206157 |
First published in 1975, and available now as a New Directions Paperbook, George Oppen's Collected Poems brings together the work of one of our foremost contemporary poets, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize. A member of the Objectivist school that flourished in the 1930s (which also included William...
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0940450283 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson's brillance as a prose writer has too long overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet. Collected Poems and Translations
gathers both published and unpublished work - poems left in manuscript at his death and hitherto available only in drastically edited or specialized scholarly...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0156806541 |
Thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in generalization,” “appreciations of individual authors,” and “social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot’s original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0940450240 |
Forgoing the narratives of the sea that prevailed in his earlier works, Melville's later fiction contains some of the finest and many of his keenest and bleakest observations of life, not on the high seas, but at home in America. With the publication of this Library of America volume, the third of three...
In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included are All My Sons, the story of an industrialist...
| Author | Nathanael West |
| ISBN | 1883011280 |
In this volume the Library of America offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along with the four novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays and plays, film scripts and treatments,...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0940450089 |
Here, in one Library of America volume, are all five of Hawthorne’s world-famous novels. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, they are permeated by his own history as well as America’s.
In The House of the Seven Gables, for example, Hawthorne alludes...
| Author | Louis Zukofsky |
| ISBN | 0801846684 |
My sweet unworded, we fall into disuse,
The sense that attached to us persists
Despite the yellow page of local history
Sir Edmund Hilary encounters Roberto Duran(1), a meeting burnished in fugue -- one containing labor history and untranslated fragments, replete with diacritics...
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 1598530283 |
With this volume The Library of America inaugurates a collected edition of the works of America’s preeminent living poet. Long associated with the New York School that came to the fore in the 1950s, John Ashbery has charted a profoundly original course that has opened up pathways for subsequent generations...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0912516976 |
Jack Kerouac says:
"Old Angel Midnight is only the beginning of a lifelong work in multilingual sound, representing the haddalada-babra of babbling world tongues coming in thru my window at midnight no matter where I live or what I'm doing, in Mexico, Morocco, New York, India or Pakistan,...
cummings remains one of my all-time favorite poets. My wife and I even had 2 cummings poems read at our wedding. I come back to this slim volume constantly, and occasionally reread it. The presentation is simple: just the poems, ma'am, just the poems. Poems are organized by the collection in which they...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0940450070 |
Here are my ratings for the individual books included in this collection:
- Life On The Mississippi: 4 stars. The best part of this collection. Entertaining, informative, and funny, too! Your best reason for picking up this book.
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: 3 stars. It has its moments....
