Penguin Books, 1978. Soft cover. Good. 275 pages. Lectures given by Wain at Oxford in the 1970s discuss, among others, Auden, Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, William Empson. Last 15 pages are an Appendix containing poems written by Wain in 1973-76. Trade paperback, crease to spine, foxing to edges; a few front-matter pages, detached because of weakening glue in binding and reattached with tape, are not quite flush with fore-edge. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 20 pages.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WBB-953
Title: Professing Poetry
Author: John Wain
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0140049339
ISBN 13: 9780140049336
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1978
Keywords: TEACHING POETRY, OXFORD, LECTURES, AUDEN, PHILIP LARKIN, EMPSON
Bookseller catalogs: English literature; Poetry; Literary criticism;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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