9781900564465 - Thames: An Anthology of River Poems (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Spine slightly faded. From the library of David Gascoyne, with the Gascoyne library book-label; his "Megalometropolitan Carnival", a fragment from Night Thoughts, is included at p. 44.

8vo. pp 80. Colour illustrated wraps. Black and white illustrations throughout. Signed by the editor at half-title page. ISBN: 1900564467 Fine.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled and slight creasing. Wrappers very slightly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean. Physical description; 80 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes a foreword by the editor and biographical notes on the poets. Contents; List of Whister's Etchings in the Text -- Preface: River of Ghosts / Iain Sinclair -- Foreword: A Strong Brown God / Anna Adams -- The River's Tale (Prehistoric) / Rudyard Kipling -- In Honour of the City of London / William Dunbar -- Prothalamoin / Edmund Spenser -- The Thames from Cooper's Hill / John Denham -- London after the Great Fire, 1666 / John Dryden -- The Voyage on the Thames / Alexander Pope -- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College / Thomas Gray -- London / William Blake -- Why Should I Care for the Men of Thames? / William Blake -- Upper Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth -- A Wife in London / Thomas Hardy -- The Visiting Sea / Alice Meynell -- In No Strange Land / Francis Thompson -- Symphony in Yellow / Oscar Wilde -- The River / Charles Hamilton Sorley -- Shadwell Stair / Wilfred Owen -- The Fire Sermon / T. S. Eliot -- Megalometropolitan Carnival / David Gascoyne -- Battersea Park / George Barker -- A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London / Dylan Thomas -- Charon / Louis MacNiece -- The River God / Stevie Smith -- Rising Damp / U. A. Fanthorpe -- Extract from Omeros / Derek Walcott -- Staines Waterworks / Peter Redgrave -- Fresh Water / Andrew Motion -- After the Theatre / Lotte Kramer -- Pouring the Sand Mandala into the Thames / Pauline Stainer -- The Thames / John Greening -- The River Goddess in the A to Z / Anna Adams -- from City Walking, I / Jeremy Hooker -- River History / Lavinia Greenlaw -- The Estuary / Ruth Pitter. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. Poetry. English poetry. Great Fire, London, England, 1666. London. 1 Kg.