HEINRICH HEINE: An Interpretation

Barker Fairley

Verlag: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Amen House, London E.C. 4, 1954

Beschreibung

First impression of the true first edition. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and rules to spine. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Off-setting to front and rear free endpapers. No inscriptions. Spine tight. No foxing. Pages clean. ***In a very good buff and tan coloured and black printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 15s net. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased, nicked and rubbed. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly creased, nicked and rubbed. Tiny closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. 2cm closed tear to tail of spine of dustwrapper. Spine, front and rear panels of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***176 pages including index to rear. 190x128 mm. ***Contents: I. Song Within Song; II. Music and Dance; III. Chorus and Procession; IV. Theatre and Ceremony; V. Carnival and Costume; VI. Animals; VII. Heaven and Hell; VIII. Conclusions. ***'Heine has usually been seen as a divided mind: the singer of love-lyrics set against the revolutionary; the satirist against the sentimentalist; the half-romantic. The present study looks for unity in him and finds it, or finds a sufficiency of it, in the closely related group of images which appear in everything he wrote, in his verse and his prose, whether early or late, imaginative or journalistic. The images are chiefly images of the theatre and show Heine as - in a special sense of the word - theatre-minded. It is argued further that the images are primarily those of one who looks out on the world; they enable us to see the world with his eyes and so to understand him as creative writer. (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition, very hard to find now especially in its original dustwrapper in nice, collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3217

Bibliografische Details

Titel: HEINRICH HEINE: An Interpretation

Verlag: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Amen House, London E.C. 4

Erscheinungsdatum: 1954

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition