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A crackling of thorns / by John Hollander ; foreword by W.H. Auden.
Van Pelt Library PS3515.O3485 C7 1958
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollander, John.
- Series:
- Yale series of younger poets ; v. 54.
- The Yale series of younger poets ; v. 54
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 71 pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1958.
- Contents:
- Icarus before Knossos
- Orpah returns to her people
- Susanna's song
- The lady's-maid's songs
- The bawd's song
- A hag at a crossroads
- Glaucon muddles a lesson
- Glaucon abandons his pipe
- Glaucon and the moon
- Glaucon returns to school
- The shopkeeper's madrigal
- Carmen Ancillae
- Dick Dongworth complains of Roseblush, his cousin
- Dick Dongworth walks in the rain
- Dick Dongworth on horseback
- Dick Dongworth on the death of Roseblush
- Dick Dongworth on his own death
- Canzona: a parting on shipboard
- A word remembered
- For both of you
- Paysage moralisé
- The jewels and the gracchi
- The fable of the bears in winter
- Enter Machiavel, waving his tail
- A satyre, etc.
- Late August on the Lido
- Heat of snow
- Autumn in another state
- Winter in Indiana
- Science and human behavior
- Jefferson Valley
- Overcast
- A theory of waves
- A theory of measure
- The fear of trembling
- The sundial
- The observatory
- By the sea
- The great bear.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has letter on Hunter College stationery laid in at front.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hollander, John. Crackling of thorns.
- OCLC:
- 860486
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