IMPORTANT BOOKS FOR POETRY LOVERS
Emily Dickinson
~
Poetry
STAIRWAY OF SURPRISE
By Charles R. Anderson
Winner
at
the
1961
Christian Gauss Award for literary criticism.
"The best study we have had of Miss Dickinson as a poet."
-GRANVILLE HICKS,
Saturday Review.
"Exciting and profound
insights into an astonishing imagination."
-Washington Post. $5.95
Robert Frost
THE TRIAL BY EXISTENCE
By Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
"The first full-dress life of the poet ... a
sine qua non
of all fu–
ture study of his work."-ERNEST KROLL,
Washington Post.
"Al–
together masterly ... full of understanding."-VAN WYCK BROOKS.
Illustrated.
$6.00
The Poem Itself
45 MODERN FOREIGN POETS IN A NEW PRESENTATION
Edited by Stanley Bumshaw
"An exciting and radical new departure in the art of translation."
-JOHN CIARDI. "This volume might be called the poet's prayer–
book."-HERBERT READ,
Poetry.
$6.50
A
new edition of
Understanding Poetry
Edited by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren
The famous book that started a revolution in literary criticism
when it was first published and is still a classic in its field . In–
cluding 400 British and American poems.
$7.00
At bookstores, or from
HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON, INC.
383 Madison Avenue, New York 17
