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The giant weapon
- Title
- The giant weapon / Yvor Winters.
- Author
- Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968
- Publication
- [Norfolk, Connecticut] : New Directions, [1943]
- Golden Eagle Press
- ©1943
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | no. 1-10 | Text | Use in library | D-13 9032 no. 1-10 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Berg Coll 22-2263 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 40 unnumbered pages; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Poets of the year ; 1943
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- American poetry > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Dust jackets – Connecticut – Norfolk – 1943.
- Private press books – New York (State) – Mount Vernon – 1943.
- Note
- "New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.
- "The Giant Weapon by Yvor Winters, in Alicia type on white wove paper, is composed and printed for New Directions by S. A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon" -- colophon.
- Indexed In (note)
- Carruth, H. New Directions reader
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Binding (note)
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-2263 is bound in publisher's plain stiff wrappers; with original dust jacket.
- Contents
- By the road to the air-base -- The Cremation -- Before disaster -- To my infant daughter -- The marriage -- Dedication for a book of crticism -- Sonnet to the moon -- To Edwin V. McKenzie -- To David Lamson -- Heracles -- Orpheus -- The Manzanita -- Elegy on a young Airedale bitch lost some years since in the salt-marsh -- A spring serpent -- An October nocturne -- A winter evening -- To a military rifle -- For the opening of the William Dinsmore Briggs room -- John Day, frontiersman -- A summer commentary -- John Sutter -- On teaching the young -- Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight -- Chiron -- On rereading a passage from John Muir -- An elegy -- Time and the garden -- Much in little -- A prayer for my son -- Midas -- On the portrait of a scholar of the Italian Renaissance -- Summer noon: 1941 -- A Testament.
- Call Number
- D-13 9032
- LCCN
- 44003972
- OCLC
- 2292845
- Author
- Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968, author.
- Title
- The giant weapon / Yvor Winters.
- Publisher
- [Norfolk, Connecticut] : New Directions, [1943]
- Manufacturer
- Golden Eagle Press
- Copyright Date
- ©1943
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Poets of the year ; 1943
- Indexed In:
- Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 244Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 11
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-2263 is bound in publisher's plain stiff wrappers; with original dust jacket. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-2263 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.Copy in Berg Coll 22-2263 is one of twelve volumes in a slipcase.
- Added Author
- Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Jacobs, S. A. (Samuel Aiwaz), printer.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Golden Eagle Press, compositor, printer.Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.Javitch, Daniel, donor.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
- Research Call Number
- D-13 9032*KSD (Winters, Y. Giant weapon)Berg Coll 22-2263