Compiled by anna adams (4 resultados)

Pamphlet. Condición: Fair. Water staining on the top edge of a few pages, and the front cover, writing on the back cover. Worn.; 32 page pamphlet; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled and slight creasing. Wrappers very slightly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean. Physical description; 80 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes a foreword by the editor and biographical notes on the poets. Contents; List of Whister's Etchings in the Text -- Preface: River of Ghosts / Iain Sinclair -- Foreword: A Strong Brown God / Anna Adams -- The River's Tale (Prehistoric) / Rudyard Kipling -- In Honour of the City of London / William Dunbar -- Prothalamoin / Edmund Spenser -- The Thames from Cooper's Hill / John Denham -- London after the Great Fire, 1666 / John Dryden -- The Voyage on the Thames / Alexander Pope -- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College / Thomas Gray -- London / William Blake -- Why Should I Care for the Men of Thames? / William Blake -- Upper Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth -- A Wife in London / Thomas Hardy -- The Visiting Sea / Alice Meynell -- In No Strange Land / Francis Thompson -- Symphony in Yellow / Oscar Wilde -- The River / Charles Hamilton Sorley -- Shadwell Stair / Wilfred Owen -- The Fire Sermon / T. S. Eliot -- Megalometropolitan Carnival / David Gascoyne -- Battersea Park / George Barker -- A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London / Dylan Thomas -- Charon / Louis MacNiece -- The River God / Stevie Smith -- Rising Damp / U. A. Fanthorpe -- Extract from Omeros / Derek Walcott -- Staines Waterworks / Peter Redgrave -- Fresh Water / Andrew Motion -- After the Theatre / Lotte Kramer -- Pouring the Sand Mandala into the Thames / Pauline Stainer -- The Thames / John Greening -- The River Goddess in the A to Z / Anna Adams -- from City Walking, I / Jeremy Hooker -- River History / Lavinia Greenlaw -- The Estuary / Ruth Pitter. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. Poetry. English poetry. Great Fire, London, England, 1666. London. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled and slight creasing. Wrappers very slightly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean. Physical description; 80 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes a foreword by the editor and biographical notes on the poets. Contents; List of Whister's Etchings in the Text -- Preface: River of Ghosts / Iain Sinclair -- Foreword: A Strong Brown God / Anna Adams -- The River's Tale (Prehistoric) / Rudyard Kipling -- In Honour of the City of London / William Dunbar -- Prothalamoin / Edmund Spenser -- The Thames from Cooper's Hill / John Denham -- London after the Great Fire, 1666 / John Dryden -- The Voyage on the Thames / Alexander Pope -- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College / Thomas Gray -- London / William Blake -- Why Should I Care for the Men of Thames? / William Blake -- Upper Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth -- A Wife in London / Thomas Hardy -- The Visiting Sea / Alice Meynell -- In No Strange Land / Francis Thompson -- Symphony in Yellow / Oscar Wilde -- The River / Charles Hamilton Sorley -- Shadwell Stair / Wilfred Owen -- The Fire Sermon / T. S. Eliot -- Megalometropolitan Carnival / David Gascoyne -- Battersea Park / George Barker -- A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London / Dylan Thomas -- Charon / Louis MacNiece -- The River God / Stevie Smith -- Rising Damp / U. A. Fanthorpe -- Extract from Omeros / Derek Walcott -- Staines Waterworks / Peter Redgrave -- Fresh Water / Andrew Motion -- After the Theatre / Lotte Kramer -- Pouring the Sand Mandala into the Thames / Pauline Stainer -- The Thames / John Greening -- The River Goddess in the A to Z / Anna Adams -- from City Walking, I / Jeremy Hooker -- River History / Lavinia Greenlaw -- The Estuary / Ruth Pitter. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. Poetry. English poetry. Great Fire, London, England, 1666. London. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thames: An Anthology of River Poems, Compiled by Anna Adams, Softcover, First UK Edition (1999). The book has a Preface by Iain Sinclair, with Etchings by James McNeill Whistler. Book in very good condition. It has sun-fading to the spine, and a little general cover wear. A very nice, tight and clean copy overall. (See pictures). This volume of poetry includes works by John Dryden, William Blake, Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, Louis MacNeice etc. etc.…