Book Description
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.
Author : David Anton Randall
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780810826243
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.
Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 067425905X
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.
Author : Joseph Rosenblum
Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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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.
Author : D. V. Randall
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1993
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 1975
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Page : 1832 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 1992
Category : United States
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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Author : Kent Ljungquist
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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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.
Author : Charles Egleston
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Authors and publishers
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Presents historical and bibliographic information about the New York publishing house of Boni and Liveright. The volume covers the period from 1917 to 1933.
Author : Barbara T. Cooper
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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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.