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Sweet theft : a poet's commonplace book
- Title
- Sweet theft : a poet's commonplace book / J.D. McClatchy.
- Author
- McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018
- Publication
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2016]
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-4656 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 307 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Centuries ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked before returning the precious book to its owner. These anthologies came to be known as Commonplace Books, and modern writers as different as W.H. Auden and Alec Guinness have kept them as well, recording phrases or passages that struck them as wise or witty or quirky. The result is as much the self-portrait of a sensibility as it is a collection of miscellaneious delights. Renowned poet J.D. McClatchy has been keeping such a book for three decades now. This selection from it offers a unique look into what strange facts, what turns of mind or phrase, what glorious feats of language and nature can attract the attnetion of a poet.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Excerpts.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-4656
- ISBN
- 9781619027138
- 1619027135
- 1619029081
- 9781619029088
- OCLC
- 950006870
- Author
- McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018, author.
- Title
- Sweet theft : a poet's commonplace book / J.D. McClatchy.
- Publisher
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-4656