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Of the Festivity - WITH Signed Correspondence and a Typed Poem Laid-In: Yale Series of Younger Poets
by DICKEY, William and W. H. Auden (foreword)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good/Good. Tall 8vo. Pp. xii, 47 followed by two pages of publisher's titles in the series. Bound in bright red cloth with a gilt star stamped on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Wear and fading to the upper edge of cover. Dust jacket is chipped along edges. Laid in are two typed letters signed with postmarked envelopes, a typed note, signed, two greeting cards, with notes handwritten and signed, and a poem, "Winter Concert," typed and signed, with a manuscript initial letter. Dates of correspondence are 1985-86. The poet's first book. William Dickey, whose work spanned more than four decades, was born in Bellingham, Washington, studied at Reed College, Harvard, Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Oxford before succumbing to HIV complications, 1994, at age 65.
In Auden's six-page foreword he uses Dickey's poetry to expound on a literary theory, advancing a proposal that repeated readings of poetry render known interpretations that vary with each subsequent reading.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4994
- Title
- Of the Festivity - WITH Signed Correspondence and a Typed Poem Laid-In
- Author
- DICKEY, William and W. H. Auden (foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1959
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About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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