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The C.eeative Experiutent
By c.
M.
BOWRA.
A great critic, author of
The Heritage of Symbolism,
analyzes selected poems of 7 distinguished modern poets. He shows how the
poets experimented, what they accomplished that is relevant to our age and to
literature in general. The poets are T. S. Eliot, Apollinaire, Pasternak, Maya–
kovsky, Garda Lorca, Alberti, Cavafy.
$4.75
The Golden Nightingale
By DONALD A. STAUFFER.
What is great art? What makes a great artist?
How do his tools-image and symbol-function? Using the poetry of Yeats as
illustrations, a well-known critic answers these and other permanent questions of
art in five lucid, illuminating essays. .. . . . a model of criticism, clear, com–
pressed and enthusiastic."-ROBERT HILLYER,
New York Times.
$3.00
The Strange Life
of August Strindherg
By ELIZABETH SPRIGGE.
Strindberg, famous dramatist and woman-hater,
is the fascinating subject of a new biography published in the centenary-year of
his birth. It is an excellent analysis of the great Swedish writer's work and of a
life as turbulent and dramatic as any of his plays. Based on material not avail–
able in English.
$3.50
Alfred Tennyson
By SIR CHARLES TENNYSON.
A great poet is revealed in a full-scale bio–
graphy by his grandson. .. . . . brings Queen Victoria's favorite poet to life as
no other book has done..•."-NEWSWEEK ..... entertaining as well as im–
mensely informative."-sAMUEL c. CHEW,
New York Herald Tribune"
..•
a
rising vote of thanks is clearly in order."-EDwARD WAGENKNECHT,
Chicago
Sunday Tribune.
$7.50
By Avon River
By H. D.
This tribute to the memory of Shakespeare contains a superb elegy,
concludes with a brilliant, dramatic essay on Shakespeare and other Elizabethan
lyricists. "H. D.'s writing will have 'an immortality' ••• This book is among the
very best things of its kind...." HORACE GREGORY.
$2.50
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