A long the riverrun : selected essays / Richard Ellmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [ [Distributed by Random House], 1989.

Contents:

The uses of decadence : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce

Yeats without analogue

Becoming exiles

Ez and Old Billyum

'He do the police in different voices'

Gazebos and gashouses

Crab-apple jelly

Love in the Catskills

Dorothea's husbands

Henry James among the aesthetes

Two faces of Edward

Lawrence and his demon

Wallace Steven's ice-cream

The ductile universe of Henry Michaux

The Hemingway circle

How Wallace Stevens saw himself

Getting to know you

The life of Sim Botchit

At the Yeatses'

Freud and literary biography.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is "An Uncorrected Proof" with "Tentative Publicate Date: 26 March 1989 and Tentative Price: $21.95".

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has postcard addressed to Philip Lyman from Colleen Clausing laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987. Long the riverrun.

ISBN:

039457768X

9780394577685

OCLC:

18741200