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Stone from Delphi : poems with classical references

Title: Stone from Delphi : poems with classical references / Seamus Heaney ; selected and with an introduction by Helen Vendler ; with watercolor drawings by Wendy Artin.
Author: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Publication: San Francisco : The Arion Press, 2012.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Book/Text	Restricted use	*KP+ (Arion) 16-59	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

115 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : 16 illustrations; 31 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Louise and Leonard Riggio.

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Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Poliphilus Roman (Monotype)
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Blado Italic (Monotype)
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Hadriano Stone Cut.

Note

"Edition of 300 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution"--Colophon.
"This book was designed and produced ... by Andrew Hoyem, with the assistance of Blake Riley, Lewis Mitchell, Brian Ferrett, David Johnston, Christopher Godek, Mark Sarigianis, Sarah Songer, Rochelle Youk, Lyssa Black, and Diana Ketcham. The types are Poliphilus roman and Blado italic, in Monotype, with the larger size of the italic handset, and Hadriano Stone Cut, handset, printed by letterpress on a Heidelberg cylinder press. The illustrations were printed on an ink-jet. The paper is German mould-made Schiller. This is the ninety-sixth publication of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
Contains 16 full-page reproductions of drawings. "Artin's watercolor drawings, done especially for this book, were made from Greek and Roman statues whose subjects appear in Heaney's writings in this volume ... The subjects are Hercules and Antaeus, the Omphalos, Hermes, Coventina, Aeneas and Anchises, Charon, Eurydice and Orpheus, a Maenad, the Lion Gate at Mycenae, the Temple of Asclepius, Hercules and Athena, Aphrodite, Jupiter, Venus, Orpheus with his lyre, and Actaeon"--Prospectus.

Indexed In (note)

Bibliography of the Arion Press

Binding (note)

Publisher's quarter tan goatskin and light brown cloth; small oval detail of reproduction of a watercolor by Artin mounted in recess on front cover. Issued in light brown cloth and tan paper-covered slipcase.

Contents

Introduction : Seamus Heaney and the classical past -- From Death of a naturalist, 1966: Personal Helicon -- From Door into the dark, 1960: Undine -- From North, 1975: Antaeus (1966) ; Hercules and Antaeus ; Freedman ; from Singing school: Exposure -- From Field work, 1979: Oysters ; An afterwards -- From Station Island, 1984: The underground ; from Shelf-life: Stone from Delphi ; Station Island VI -- From The haw lantern, 1987: Alphabets ; Terminus ; The haw lantern ; A daylight art ; The stone verdict ; Grotus and Coventina ; Wolfe Tone -- From The cure at Troy : a version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, 1990: Chorus: "You've heard the famous tale" -- From Seeing things, 1991: The golden bough (from Virgil, Aeneid, book VI) ; From Glanmore revisited: III. Scene shifts ; V. Lustral Sonnet ; VI. Bedside reading -- From Squarings: IV. Beneath the ocean itself, the crowd ; V. Three marble holes thumbed in the concrete road ; XXVII. Everything flows, even a solid man ; XXXVIII. We climbed the Capitol by moonlight, felt ; The crossing (from Dante, Inferno, Canto III, lines 82-129) -- From The midnight verdict, 1993: Orpheus and Euridice (after Ovid, Metamorphoses, X) ; The death of Orpheus (after Ovid, Metamorphoses, XI) -- From The spirit level, 1996: Damson ; Mycenae lookout -- From Electric light, 2001: From out of the bag: II. Poeta doctus Peter Levi says ; III. Bits of grass I pulled I posted off ; Bann Valley eclogue ; Virgil, Eclogue IX ; Glamore eclogue ; from Sonnets from Hellas: I. Into Arcadia ; IV. The Augean stables ; VI. Desfina ; Arion -- From The burial at Thebes : a version of Aeschulus' Antigone, 2004: Chorus: "Among the many wonders of the world" ; Chorus: "Love that can't be withstood" -- From District and circle, 2006: Anything can happen (after Horace, Odes, I, 34) -- From Human chain, 2010: The riverbank field ; Route 110 -- From Virgil's Aeneid, book VI, 2012: The Elysian fields, "With this ritual/Finally performed" ; Charon and the Underworld, "A road starts here that leads to Acheron river" -- From Metamorphosis : poems inspired by Titian, 2012: Actaeon.

Call Number

*KP+ (Arion) 16-59

OCLC

825074505

Author

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013, author.

Title

Stone from Delphi : poems with classical references / Seamus Heaney ; selected and with an introduction by Helen Vendler ; with watercolor drawings by Wendy Artin.

Publisher

San Francisco : The Arion Press, 2012.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Rare Books copy is no. 269; signed in pencil by Healey and Arlin.

Indexed In:

Bibliography of the Arion Press, entry 96

Binding

Publisher's quarter tan goatskin and light brown cloth; small oval detail of reproduction of a watercolor by Artin mounted in recess on front cover. Issued in light brown cloth and tan paper-covered slipcase.

Local Note

Rare Books copy accompanied by prospectus (8 unnumbered pages : 1 illustration).

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States California San Francisco.

Added Author

Vendler, Helen, 1933- editor, writer of introduction.

Artin, Wendy, illustrator.

Hoyem, Andrew, book designer.

Arion Press, printer, publisher.

Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH, papermaker.

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Arion) 16-59

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