The poetry of civic virtue: Eliot, Malraux, Auden Tapa dura - 1976

Fortress Press, 1976. fine hardcover in very good+ dustjacket; a solid copy; For their protection I cover all dustjackets with a new clear mylar protector; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED; ALL ORDERS SHIPPED WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION; . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 6 x 8".

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. (12)164pp. Index. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall

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Philadelphia: Fortress Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0800604830 . First edition. About fine in a fine dust jacket. .

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976. 1st printing; dj w/lite wewar only, unclipped rice, in mylar; 164 clean, unmarked pages/index. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8 Vo.

Philadelphia. 1976. Fortress Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0800604830. 164 pages. hardcover. keywords: Poetry Literary Criticism America Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Many writers who created what is now regarded as the classic canon of modern literature - Rilke, Kafka, Gide, Virginia Woolf, Sartre, Beckett - appear strongly disinclined to endorse the idea of man-in-society, and their tendency is to posit a radical solitariness as the universal human condition. Indeed, one of the leading characteristics of ‘modernism' in twentieth century poetry and fiction might be said to be the reluctance expressed by so much of this literature to acknowledge the social world as the repository of man's most essential truth: ‘real life' is thought to be elsewhere, in the inwardness of individualist subjectivity. Again and again, the literary imagination of our time has located the scene and site of the human drama outside the realm of what Martin Buber called… Leer más

Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1976. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Brright. Orange linen boards/Fine. DJ'NF w/light edge wear. PO name to fEP, remainder mark to upper text edge, and PO initials to lower text edge. lAnthology of verse on Civic Virtue --- political philosophy on social responsiblityl. Aristotle argued civic virtue imeans citizens are participants in both ruling and being ruled. In the East, Confucius stressed behavior and rituals, including governance of one's very household, requires commitment. This anthology of philosophical verse of T.S. Eliot, Andre Malraux, and W.H. Auden promote the same. 164 pgs in 3 chapters: 1, The Polis as "Time's Covenant" --- in Elliot's Late Poetry; 2, The Morality & Poetics of the City --- Malraux's Definition; and 3, Auden's Way: Toward the City --- from the "Suburb of Dissent". Strong copy despite flaws,