Pedro Salinas (1891-1951) was born in Madrid, and, like his life-long friend Jorge Guill???n, was a poet, professor, scholar, and critic. After teaching at Seville, the Sorbonne, and elsewhere in Europe, he came to the United States in 1936 to teach at Wellesley College. He also taught at Middlebury, and the last years of his life were spent at the Johns Hopkins University. Salinas' Poes???as completas appeared in 1971, an edition containing nine volumes of poems as well as some early and late work. He also wrote ...
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Pedro Salinas (1891-1951) was born in Madrid, and, like his life-long friend Jorge Guill???n, was a poet, professor, scholar, and critic. After teaching at Seville, the Sorbonne, and elsewhere in Europe, he came to the United States in 1936 to teach at Wellesley College. He also taught at Middlebury, and the last years of his life were spent at the Johns Hopkins University. Salinas' Poes???as completas appeared in 1971, an edition containing nine volumes of poems as well as some early and late work. He also wrote several prose sketches, a novel, short stories, plays, critical editions, translations, and seven volumes of essays and criticism. He died in Boston in 1951. Willis Barnstone is Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has published several books of poetry, including A Day in the Country , From This White Island (A Pulitzer nominee), and China Poems , and has translated books of Sappho, Greek lyric poetry, Mao Tse-tung, Saint John of the Cross, and Antonio Machado. He is currently completing a volume on Jorge Luis Borges and a translation of the Spanish mystic Fray Luis de Le???n.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Slight wear & soil to cover & edgewear to the DJ. Corners lightly bumped. All pages clean, crisp and unmarked. Tight spine. Clean boards. Pages: 110. This volume includes two publisher "Review" information sheets detailing publication information such as Pub. dates. 8vo.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Translator Black boards with white lettering on spine, 110 pp., jacket. Presumed First English-language Edition. Signed by the translator (first name only) with inscription: "For Ann[e]! and Robert, with everything from Willis." A book in excellent condition with a lightly worn jacket.
