PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE ELECTED CIRCLE
Studies
in
the Art of Prose
LAURENCE STAPLETON
"An extraordinary book which
~
clearly the fruit of long meditation,
and of
delight.
But it is the pmse in which it is written that tells me
the most-it is imaginative prose, of its own origin and 'adventure.
The
Elected Circle
also reflect9-and gives directly to 'the reader an excite- .
ment of the mind." - Eudora Welry
$11.90
LUCIFER IN HARNESS
American Meter, Metaphor, and Diction
EDWIN FUSSELL
Writing in a provocative critical style attuned to the poets he discusses,
Edwin Fussell explores the dilemma of the American poet who
fUlds
himself reluctantly harnessed to the English language and to English
literary tradition. The emphasis is on those poets who have successfully
created a truly American poetry-Poe, Whitman, Pound, Eliot, and
Williams-but the author also discusses Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and
others.
$9.50
THE POETRY OF RIMBAUD
ROBERT GREER COHN
In this interpretive analysis of the poetry of Rimbaud, Robert Greer
Cohn introduces the reader to the work of Rimbaud and outlines the
poet's meteoric career. He brings the various aspects of the poetry into a
coherent view which avoids a tendentious or reductive approach, and he
provides analyses of key passages of the poems, with detailed clarifica-
tions of difficult lines and even words.
$18.50
SHAKESPEARE'S MATURE TRAGEDIES
BERNARD McELROY
The collapse of the tragic hero's world and his struggle to reconstruct it
-contrasted against the highly distinct, self-contained version of reality
within the world of the play-is the basis for Bernard McElroy's wise and
humane discussion of
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,
and
Macbeth .
"One of
the best general studies of Shakespearean tragedy I have ever read. " -
Jonas A. Barish
$10.00
SHAKESPEARE'S LIVING ART
ROSALIE L. COLlE
In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"
-verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres- to the
culture from which a writer springs and
to
his selection and organization
of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what
he is, and is enabled to do what he does. Particularly concerned with
uncovering the ways in which -Shakespeare used, misused, criticized, re–
created, and sometimes revolutionized the received topics and devices
of his craft, the author has chosen for study topics which connect
Shakespeare with the long and rich continental Renaissance, in the hope
that in the future Shakespeare might be, like Dante and Cervantes, an
essential author in a comparatist's education.
Cloth, $18.50; Limited paperback, $9.75
