The hovering fly and other essays / by Allen Tate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tate, Allen, 1899-1979.

Contributor:

Williams, Wightman, illustrator.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Williams, Wightman (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 102 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cummington, Massachusetts] : The Cummington Press, MCMXLVIII [1948]

Contents:

The hovering fly.

The new provincialism.

Techniques of fiction.

A reading of Keats.

Stephen Spender's Poems.

An exegesis on Dr. Swift.

Longinus.

A suppressed preface.

Notes:

Illustrated by Wightman Williams.

Title page printed in brown and black above portrait of Allen Tate by Wightman Williams.

"The edition is limited to two hundred and forty-five numbered copies; the first twelve, each with an original drawing and the woodcuts hand-colored, and the next ninety-three are on Van Gelder paper and signed at the colophon by the author and the illustrator."

"Printed by Wightman Williams, who cut the woodblocks, and Harry Duncan, who set the type. Begun in June 1947 and completed in April 1949. Veritas ut artificium viget proborat."

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 50.

Culture Class Collection copy has autographs of Allen Tate and Wightman Williams.

OCLC:

3560247