Selected poems : with a preface on the nature of poetry / by Arthur Davison Ficke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 11 unnumbered pages-234 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1938.

Contents:

Preface, The Nature of Poetry

Nocturne in a Library

Lyrics

Sonnets

Beauty in exile

Sonnets of a portrait-painter

An April elegy

Rue des Vents

Don Quixote

On tides of time

The middle years

Personalities and diversions

Asian oracles

Guide to China

At. St. Stephanos.

Notes:

"Originally published by George H. Doran Company in 1926; now reprinted for the author by Doubleday, Doran and Company in 1938. 500 copies."

"The Headland" printed in the 1926 edition is not included.

Red cloth boards with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine lettered in gold.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For my dear friend Burton Rascoe from Arthur Davison Ficke. Dec. 1938".

OCLC:

10612036