Research Catalog

Title

Classics revisited / Kenneth Rexroth ; afterword by Bradford Morrow.

Author

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Publication

• New York : New Directions, 1986.
• ©1986

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Strohbach, Hermann (Designer)
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

ix, 214 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"Poet, translator, essayist and voracious reader--Kenneth Rexroth was an omnivore in the fields of literature. The brief, radiant essays of Classics Revisted discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, "basic documents in the history of the imagination." Ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Huckleberry Finn, these pieces (each three or four pages long) originally appeared in the Saturday Review."--Back cover.

Series Statement

A New Directions book

Subject

• Literature > History and criticism
• Literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 20th century.

Note

• Reprint. Originally published: New York : Avon, 1968.
• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Audience (note)

• 1210L

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' black cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Hermann Strohbach.

Contents

Homer -- Job -- Sappho -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Plato -- Lucretius -- Livy -- Julius Caesar -- Petronius -- Tacitus -- Plutarch -- Marcus Aurelius -- Apuleius -- Tu Fu -- Lady Murasaki -- Chaucer -- Rabelais -- Marco Polo -- Thomas More -- Machiavelli -- Malory -- Montaigne -- Cervantes -- Shakespeare -- Webster -- Ben Johnson -- Izaak Walton -- John Bunyan -- Tsao Hsueh Chin -- Giacomo Casanova -- Henry Fielding -- Laurence Sterne -- Restif de la Bretonne -- Edward Gibbon -- Stendhal -- Baudelaire -- Karl Marx -- Walt Whitman -- Dostoievsky -- Gustave Flaubert -- Tolstoy -- Rimbaud -- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt -- Mark Twain -- Chekhov.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1611

ISBN

• 0811209873
• 9780811209878
• 0811209881
• 9780811209885

LCCN

85031088

OCLC

13007432

Author

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Title

Classics revisited / Kenneth Rexroth ; afterword by Bradford Morrow.

Publisher

New York : New Directions, 1986.

Copyright Date

©1986

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A New Directions book

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 118.

Audience

1210L Lexile

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1611 bound in publishers' black cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Hermann Strohbach. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1611 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Strohbach, Hermann (Designer), bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1611