Verlag: David & Charles, 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Verlag: David & Charles, 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Verlag: David & Charles, Inc., 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1978. 224pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Very Good+ dj [a small top edge bump; else nrF] The prolific English writer John Barrington Wain (1925-94) was Professor of Poetry at Oxford when this anthology of some of his favorites was published.
Verlag: David and Charles, 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Verlag: David & Charles January 1978, 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Verlag: David & Charles Publishers, 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Verlag: David & Charles., Newton Abbot., 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. 224pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: David & Charles ( 1960 ), London / North Pomfret, VT / Vancouver, 1960
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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stapled wrappers. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Narrow small quarto, pages 173-197, green wrappers Wain was a Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. This is his personal selection of his favorite poems by other poets. "One of the things I have never bothered to do is to define poetry . I would have more confidence in tryint to define a poet than in trying to define poetry." - Introduction.
Verlag: David & Charles, United Kingdom, 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Verlag: David & Charles, 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Verlag: David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1978
ISBN 10: 0715375059 ISBN 13: 9780715375051
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Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. PERSONAL CHOICE A Poetry Anthology. John Wain. David & Charles, Newton Abbot. 1978 First edition ISBN 0715375059 224pp Hardback. This copy is in very bright and crisp FINE condition in a FINE unclipped dustwrapper. John Barrington Wain (14 March 1925 - 24 May 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. He seems to have married in 1947, since C. S. Lewis wrote a poem for his wedding in June of that year. He wrote his first novel Hurry on Down in 1953, a comic picaresque story about an unsettled university graduate who rejects the standards of conventional society. Other notable novels include Strike the Father Dead (1962), a tale of a jazzman's rebellion against his conventional father, and Young shoulders (1982), winner of the Whitbread Prize, the tale of a young boy dealing with the death of loved ones. Wain's use of lower-case letters in the titles of his novels indicate his non-conventional manner. Wain was also a prolific poet and critic, with critical works on fellow Midlands writers Arnold Bennett, Samuel Johnson (for which he was awarded the 1974 James Tait Black Memorial Prize), and William Shakespeare. Among the other writers about whom he has written are the Americans Theodore Roethke and Edmund Wilson. He himself was the subject of a bibliography by David Gerard. He was a literary lion in his day, but the unpleasant remarks about him by Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin in their posthumous letters seem to have rubbished his reputation. Wain taught at the University of Reading during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and in 1963 spent a term as professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London. He was the first Fellow in creative arts at Brasenose College, Oxford (1971?1972), and was appointed a supernumerary fellow in 1973. In that same year, he was elected to the five-year post of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford: some of his lectures are collected in his book Professing Poetry. This anthology aims to share with the reader some of the varied pleasures to be found by reading poetry. The choice is entirely personal. Ref S7.