The Sacred Wood : Essays on Poetry and Criticism
by Eliot, T. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co.. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. (1953). Hardcover. Previous owner's signature dated 1958. Large 90mm tear along front flap fold of dust-jacket. Chips to margins of dust-jacket. Fading to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1953 reprint of 1950 seventh edition, of a title first published in 1920. 171, [1] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 119mm. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Perfect Critic; Imperfect Critics : Swinburne as Critic; A Romantic Aristocrat; The Local Flavour; A Note on the American Critic; The French Intelligence; Tradition and the Individual Talen; The Possibility of a Poetic Drama; Euripides and Professor Murray; "Rhetoric" and Poetic Drama; Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe; Hamlet and his Problems; Ben Jonson; Philip Massinger; Swinburne as Poet; Blake; Dante. This edition includes the four page Preface to the 1928 second edition. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24873
- Title
- The Sacred Wood : Essays on Poetry and Criticism
- Author
- Eliot, T. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1953)
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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