David Anton Randall, 1905-1975

David Anton Randall, 1905-1975
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 0810826240
ISBN-13 : 9780810826243
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis David Anton Randall, 1905-1975 by : David Anton Randall

Randall (1905-1975) was a book dealer and a rare book librarian. Keller describes those careers in this book and provides a generous sampling of Randall's writing on rare books, book collecting, and bibliography.

The Letters of Robert Frost

The Letters of Robert Frost
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 849
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ISBN-10 : 9780674259058
ISBN-13 : 067425905X
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Letters of Robert Frost by : Robert Frost

The third installment of Harvard’s five-volume edition of Robert Frost’s correspondence. The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929–1936 is the latest installment in Harvard’s five-volume edition of the poet’s correspondence. It presents 601 letters, of which 425 are previously uncollected. The critically acclaimed first volume, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, included nearly 300 previously uncollected letters, and the second volume 350 more. During the period covered here, Robert Frost was close to the height of his powers. If Volume 2 covered the making of Frost as America’s poet, in Volume 3 he is definitively made. These were also, however, years of personal tribulation. The once-tight Frost family broke up as marriage, illness, and work scattered the children across the country. In the case of Frost’s son Carol, both distance and proximity put strains on an already fractious relationship. But the tragedy and emotional crux of this volume is the death of Frost’s youngest daughter, Marjorie. Frost’s correspondence from those dark days is a powerful testament to the difficulty of honoring the responsibilities of a poet’s eminence while coping with the intensity of a parent’s grief. Volume 3 also sees Frost responding to the crisis of the Great Depression, the onset of the New Deal, and the emergence of totalitarian regimes in Europe, with wit, canny political intelligence, and no little acerbity. All the while, his star continues to rise: he wins a Pulitzer for Collected Poems in 1931 and will win a second for A Further Range, published in 1936, and he is in constant demand as a public speaker at colleges, writers’ workshops, symposia, and dinners. Frost was not just a poet but a poet-teacher; as such, he was instrumental in defining the public functions of poetry in the twentieth century. In the 1930s, Frost lived a life of paradox, as personal tragedy and the tumults of politics interwove with his unprecedented achievements. Thoroughly annotated and accompanied by a biographical glossary and detailed chronology, these letters illuminate a triumphant and difficult period in the life of a towering literary figure.

American Book-collectors and Bibliographers

American Book-collectors and Bibliographers
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Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
Total Pages : 440
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105005184481
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis American Book-collectors and Bibliographers by : Joseph Rosenblum

Essays on American booksellers and librarians in addition to book collectors and bibliographers. Discusses how collectors, booksellers, bibliographers and librarians interact as well as the bibliophile's role in scholarship. Provides information on the history of book culture in America.

Lilly Library Publication

Lilly Library Publication
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015082924153
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

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AB Bookman's Weekly

AB Bookman's Weekly
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 572
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015030451218
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

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Antebellum Writers in New York

Antebellum Writers in New York
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Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages : 520
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105025349783
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Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Antebellum Writers in New York by : Kent Ljungquist

Contains biographical sketches of authors who wrote or began writing their major works during the period 1820 to 1860. Represented are writers of short stories, juvenile literature, sermons, and popular literature, as well as novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, translators, compilers, journalists, reformers, historians, abolitionists, and scientists.

The House of Boni & Liveright, 1917-1933

The House of Boni & Liveright, 1917-1933
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 568
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105117953377
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Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The House of Boni & Liveright, 1917-1933 by : Charles Egleston

Presents historical and bibliographic information about the New York publishing house of Boni and Liveright. The volume covers the period from 1917 to 1933.

French Dramatists, 1789-1914

French Dramatists, 1789-1914
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Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015003015873
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Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis French Dramatists, 1789-1914 by : Barbara T. Cooper

Essays on French dramatists writing during a period when Paris and the provinces saw thousands of dramatic works in a myriad of genres. These plays offered not only entertainment, but broached serious political and social issues as well, during a time of government censorship. Includes information on the various forms of theatrical entertainment, and the various types of playwriting, including melodrama, romantic drama, tragedies, comedies and realistic dramas.

Latin American Dramatists

Latin American Dramatists
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Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages : 504
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105119480528
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Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Latin American Dramatists by : Adam Versényi

Representative collection of playwrights from the sixteenth century to the present, serving as a summary introduction to the range of work carried out in Latin American drama. The dramatists selected have been limited to those from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Central and South America.