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Selected poems, 1930-1965. / Richard Eberhart.
Van Pelt Library PS3509.B456 A6 1965
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 198.
- A New Directions paperbook ; NDP198
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Leisenring, E., Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 115 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Richard Eberhart: Selected poems 1930-1965
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [New Directions books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue], [1965.]
- Contents:
- This fevers me
- The bells of a Chinese temple
- For a lamb
- In hard intellectual light
- The groundhog
- Maze
- Where are those high and haunting skies
- 1934
- When Doris danced
- Experience evoked
- Two loves
- Burden
- What if remembrance
- In prisons of established craze
- Now is the air made of chiming balls
- When golden flies upon my carcase come
- Recollection of childhood
- The critic with his pained eye
- Orchard
- The humanist
- I went to see Irving Babbitt
- The goal of intellectual man
- Imagining how it would be to be dead
- If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness
- Cover me over
- I walked over the grave of Henry James
- Rumination
- Mysticism has not the patience to wait for God's revelation
- I walked out to the graveyard to see the dead
- The soul longs to return whence it came
- Retrospective forelook
- New Hampshire, February
- The horse chestnut tree
- Go to the shine that's on a tree
- At night
- Dam Neck, Virginia
- The fury of aerial bombardment
- World war
- The cancer cells
- Indian pipe
- Forms of the Human
- Seals, terns, time
- A legend of viable women
- A ship burning and a comet all in one day
- Great praises
- The tobacconist of Eighth Street
- On shooting particles beyond the world
- The human being is a lonely creature
- Sestina
- On the fragility of mind
- The book of nature
- Cousin Florence
- Analogue of unity in multeity
- To Evan
- Formative mastership
- The day bed
- Sea-hawk
- On a squirrel crossing the road in autumn, in New England
- In after time
- The wisdom of insecurity
- Only in the dream
- Anima
- The forgotten rock
- The return
- Attitudes
- Light from above
- Nothing but change
- The oak
- The incomparable light
- Ospreys in cry
- Birth and death
- Apple buds
- A commitment
- The kite
- La Crosse at ninety miles an hour
- The place
- Kaire
- The struggle
- Nexus
- A Maine roustabout
- Sea burial from the cruiser Reve
- The inward rock
- Flux
- Ruby Daggett
- Hark back
- The lost
- Winter kill
- A New England bachelor
- A New England view : my report
- Am I my neighbor's keeper
- Dream journey of the head and heart
- Moment of equilibrium among the islands
- Rainscapes, hydrangeas, roses and singing birds
- Hardening into print
- Meditation one
- Meditation two
- The water-pipe
- Eagles
- May evening
- The gesture
- The face, the axe, and time
- The killer
- Action and poetry
- Fishing for snakes
- At McSorley's bar
- The illusion of eternity
- The rush
- The echoing rocks
- Off Pemaquid
- The matin pandemoniums
- Ordeal
- Tones of spring.
- Notes:
- "Published by arrangement with Oxford University Press, New York."
- "This paperbound volume of 'Selected Poems 1930-1965' represents work chosen from all of Richard Eberhart's earlier voolumes, from 'A Bravery of Earth' (1930) to 'The Quarry' (1964), together with some previously unpublished poems."--Cover.
- Includes Index of First Lines.
- Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1966.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Richard Eberhart.
- OCLC:
- 283623
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