Poetry (World of culture) Unknown - 1975

Newsweek Books. Good+; Some light wear. Some age spots. 1975. Hardcover. 0882251201 . World of culture; 192 pages .

New York: Newsweek Books, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback First Edition. Deluxe Binding of brown pebble-cloth with gilt titles to spine. Newsweek Books World of Culture Series. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket in Archival Protective Cover. Lavishly illustrated--180 illustrations, more than a third in full color supplement and enhance the text. This includes holograph samples and frontispieces of early editions of the world's best known poems; portraits of illustrious poets and photographs of their mementos, and copious examples of artwork commissioned to illustrate the poems. This volume deals with the growth and development of Western poetic tradition and quotes sparingly from works of our foremost poets, beginning with Homer and Vergil. Later chapters focus on religious poetry from Dante's Divine Comedy to Milton's Paradise Lost. The lyricists and satirists of the Restoration; the giants of the Romantic… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.