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Housman

THE NAME AND NATURE OF POETRY. The Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered at Cambridge 9 May 1933

The Macmillan Company [and] The University Press, 1933

33,00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, Stati Uniti d'America)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1933
Luogo di stampa
New York [and] Cambridge
Autore
Housman
Editori
The Macmillan Company [and] The University Press

Descrizione

First edition and issue. Small 8vo, in the publisher's original red cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. 50pp. Internally a fine copy, there are some occasional handwritten marginal notes but they are very lightly written in pencil and would be quite easily removed if so desired. The red cloth is sturdy and sound and has extremely little wear but the color is mellowed a bit around the edges and the gilt on the spine panel is faded.

Edizione: a lecture housman delivered in 1933, charming, authoritative, and modest. "poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood; and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure." housman says he can no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat, "but we both recognise the object by the symptoms it provokes in us."
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