Research Catalog

Title

Sestina for a far-off summer : poems 1957-1962 / Richmond Lattimore.

Author

Lattimore, Richmond, 1906-1984

Publication

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 1962.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

90 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic
• poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Title in black and red.

Contents

• Ship bottom -- The academic overture -- Max Schmitt in a single scull -- February loves -- The father -- Bookman to bookmen -- The line -- Hippolytus in middle age -- Three Greek virgins (Seen in Penteli ; Resident by Mistra ; Dominant over Mykonos) -- The Gulf Stream -- After Christmas -- A theme from Thomas Hobbes (Theme and garden ; Seal Harbor and Marcy ; The Korean mound at Peitaiho) -- Ode for Gertrude Ely's spring party -- Good-bye summer good-bye good-bye -- Apologies to Creston -- Poussin's world: two pictures -- Arms and the man -- The Roman soldier -- Remember Aphrodite -- North China and the children -- Spider -- The procession and the box: A tapestry for Valentine -- Andritsaina revisited -- The crabs -- Details from the nativity scene.
• (Cont.) Ghost of no flesh remembered -- The watches -- Daisy nonsense -- Collages and compositions -- The pillow and the book -- A siding near Chillicothe -- Green and white -- King for a day -- Wellhead -- Problems of disposal -- Early apples -- The birds across the sea -- American nights -- Shrike -- Unwelcome thrift on Judgment Day -- Flowers and thorns in their time -- Mourning doves -- The painter's eye -- Remorse -- Easter -- Failure -- The first seven years -- December fragments -- Saint Demetrius and Saint George -- The Krankenhaus of Leutkirch -- Anastylosis -- The Macedonian chamber tomb -- The interval -- A lodging for the night -- Memory of a scholar -- Dramatis personae -- Return to the Castelli -- Ferry junction -- Sestina for a far-off summer.

LCCN

62013452

OCLC

• ocm01362118
• 1362118
• SCSB-2070240

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library