Research Catalog

Title

Spain in mind : an anthology / edited and with an introduction by Alice Leccese Powers.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Powers, Alice Leccese.

Description

xxv, 373 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

From Wordsworth, Byron, James, and Wharton to Auden, Orwell, and Hemingway, three centuries of great writers celebrate Spain through poetry, nonfiction, and fiction.

Series Statement

Vintage departures

Uniform Title

Vintage departures

Subject

• English literature
• American literature
• British > Spain
• Americans > Spain
• Spain > Literary collections
• Spain > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Literary collections
• Littérature.

Note

• "A Vintage departures original"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hemingway in Pamplona / John Affleck -- Spain 1937 / W. H. Auden -- village calendar / Gerald Brenan -- Letter to his mother / George Gordon -- Candle hat / Billy Collins -- Picasso / E. E. Cummings -- Winter in Castile / John Dos Passos -- #76 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- from Ten days in Spain / Kate Field -- from Gatherings from Spain / Richard Ford -- Water-fairies and altars / Lucia Graves -- Sirocco at Deya / Robert Graves -- from The dangerous summer / Ernest Hemingway -- Letter from Spain; postcard from Spain / Langston Hughes -- from Barcelona the Great Enchantress / Robert Hughes -- Public fetes of Granada / Washington Irving -- from Collected travel writings / Henry James -- from Snowball oranges / Peter Kerr -- Where the map stopped / Barbara Kingsolver -- Catalonian shore / Rose Macaulay -- On the victory obtained by Blake over the Spaniards / Andrew Marvell -- from Don Fernando / W. Somerset Maugham -- Badajoz / James A. Michener -- from Travels with my donkey / Tim Moore -- Four cities / Jan Morris -- Spain / Favell Lee Mortimer -- from A stranger in Spain / H. V. Morton -- Holy Week in Seville / Eric Newby -- La montana / Kate O'Brien -- from Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell -- from The foreigner / David Plante -- Holiday / Mary Lee Settle -- Friends and foreigners / Chris Stewart -- Pepper chase / Calvin Trillin -- John Bull on the Guadalquivir / Anthony Trollope -- from A Spanish lover / Joanna Trollope -- Visiting my daughter, an exchange student in Spain / Suellen Wedmore -- from A backward glance / Edith Wharton -- Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard / William Wordsworth -- from Pagan Spain / Richard Wright.

ISBN

• 9781400076765 (pbk.)
• 1400076765

LCCN

^^2006037916

OCLC

• 76901765
• SCSB-11551130

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library