The Collected Poems of the Nobel laureate and poet-statesman are here reissued with the posthumous Song for an Equinox, to form a complete edition of his poetic oeuvre, including also his I960 Nobel speech On Poetry" and his 1965 essay on Dante. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important ...
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The Collected Poems of the Nobel laureate and poet-statesman are here reissued with the posthumous Song for an Equinox, to form a complete edition of his poetic oeuvre, including also his I960 Nobel speech On Poetry" and his 1965 essay on Dante. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Octavo. 682pp. Facing French and English text. Owner name on front fly else fine in a modestly worn, very good or better dust jacket with the rear panel just a bit tanned and the blue of the spine evenly sunned to forest green. Translations by W. H. Auden, Hugh Chisolm, Denis Devlin, T.S. Eliot, Robert Fitzgerald, Wallace Fowlie, Richard Howard, and Louise Varèse. Issued as Bollingen Series LXXXVII. Perse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book in very solid, tight condition. Dust jacket is somewhat worn and rubbed at edges, with soiling and discoloration to spine. Bookplate on front free endpaper; author obituary pasted on verso. No markings to text.
