Collected Poems
by William Empson
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- Seller
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Madison, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Collected Poems
by William Empson
119 pages. 12mo, paperback pocketbook. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1949). Internally clean, binding tight. A very good(+) copy.
Synopsis
Fifty-six poems, including "Chinese Ballad" and "A Masque (The Birth of Steel)." "The wrung-out, colloquial dryness of this diction has its own firm music, capable of being heightened, in more elaborate poems, to a grand polyphony."-Robert Fitzgerald, New Republic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Abaculus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1264
- Title
- Collected Poems
- Author
- William Empson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- New
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- Size
- 12mo
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Madison, Tennessee
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Glossary
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.