LYRIC POETRY OF THE
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Compiled by L. R.
LIND
The most important poets in Italy
from the 13th to the end of the 16th
centuries appear in this anthology of
165 poems printed opposite their verse
translations. Included are Ezra Pound's
translations of Cavalcanti, Rossetti's
translations of Dante, and Morris
Bishop's versions of Petrarch. Intro–
duction by Thomas G. Bergin. $5.00
AN ARMADA OF
THIRTY WHALES
DANIEL
G.
HOFFMAN
In this 51st volume in the Yale Series
of Younger Poets are poems that evoke
the sights and sounds of the sea, the
wonder of mythology, the soaring of
birds, and the humor of life. Fore–
word by W. H. Auden.
$2.50
THE DANCING BEARS
W. S.
MERWIN
A second book of verse by the author
of
A Mask for Janus,
a poet "who
has struck a balance between formal
exigency and imaginative force that
is rare at any time and almost non–
existent at the moment." (Louise
Bogan)
$2.75
CONTRIBUTORS
HERMANN HESSE, Nobel Prize
winner ond one of the most famous
German writers alive today, lives
in Switzerland.
LIONEL TRILLING's essay on Mans–
field Park was written for the vol–
ume on the Romantic Period in the
series, The Pelican Guide to English
Literature, to be published by Pen–
guin Books in 1955.
E. V. WALTER is on the PoliticoI
Science foculty of Ohio Wesleyon
University.
THOMAS GREENE is an instructor
in English at Yale, and has previous–
ly published in the Sewanee Review.
FRANCIS FERGUSSON is now
teaching ot Rutgers University.
V. S. PRITCHETI, the well-known
English critic and literory editor of
The New Statesman and Nation, re–
cently published a book on Spain,
The Spanish Temper.
J.
G. WEIGHTMAN is on the staff
of the English review, The Twentieth
Century.
SAMUEL BECKET-Waiting for Godot.
A Tragicomedy in two lIets.
4.75
ELLIOTT COLEMAN- The Golden Angel.
PlIpers on Proust.
3.50
E. E. CUMMINGS-Poems-I923 - 1954
Complete.
6.75
LORCA-Comedies. Incl. "Shoemaker's
Prodigious Wife," "Ponll Rositll,"
&
others.
3.75
GERTRUDE STEIN-As fine as Melandhll.
5.00
TENNESSEE WILLlAMS-HlIrd ClIndy
&
Other Stories. Ltd. ed.
8.50
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