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Published by Library of America, NY, 2005
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 183 clean, unmarked pages; dj w/unclipped price Size: 12 vo.
Published by The Library of America, 2005
ISBN 10: 1931082863ISBN 13: 9781931082860
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 183 pages. 4-3/4 by 7-3/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From first to last, poetry was part of Edith Wharton's writing life. While rarely (after early youth) her primary focus, it always served her as a medium for recording the most vivid impressions and emotions, an intimate journal of longings and regrets. "Poetry was important to Wharton," writes editor Louis Auchincloss, "because it enabled her to express the deeply emotional side of her nature that she kept under such tight control, not only in her life but in the ordered sweep of her fiction." In later years her poetry also engaged with the public passions of wartime, as she found herself involved with the plight of Allied soldiers in France. Her first models were Romantic, but in the course of her life she absorbed the influences of Symbolism and Modernism; and throughout her poetic career she showed a care for form even in her most private utterances, as in the erotic ode "Terminus," never published in her lifetime. This volume collects the bulk of Wharton's significant poetry, including much work previously uncollected or unpublished. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.
Published by The Library of America - New York, 2004
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Neon green glossy cloth on boards with horizontal or dark green lining wrapping from front around spine to rear. Titling to spine as well. Small book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out - matching green endpapers. Book is Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket with attractive design also Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Who else but Auchincloss would be the Editor! We have multiple other copies from this series.