Research Catalog

Title

A poet's notebook / by Edith Sitwell.

Author

Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964

Publication

• Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1950.
• ©1950

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Details

Additional Authors

Little, Brown and Company, publisher.

Description

xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 3-276 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Poetry
• Poetry > History and criticism
• English poetry > History and criticism
• poetry
• English poetry
• Poetry
• Literatura Inglesa (Historia E Critica)

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• poetry.
• Poetry
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Poésie.

Note

• Consists of portions of the author's A notebook on William Shakespeare, and A poet's notebook.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

A notebook on William Shakespeare: The hymn to life -- Of the clowns and fools -- Comedy and tragedy -- Some general notes on the tragedies -- Macbeth -- King Lear -- Hamlet -- Othello, the moor of Venice -- Timon of Athens -- Measure for measure -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Julius Caesar -- The historical tragedies -- The comedies -- All's well that ends well -- A poet's notebook: On the poet's nature -- On the nature of poetry -- On technical matters -- Some necessities of poetry -- On morality in poetry -- On simplicity -- On the senses -- On over-civilization -- On the need for the refreshing of the language -- On the poet's labor -- On imagery in poetry -- On the poet, the natural world, and inspiration -- On the power of words -- On Ben Jonson -- On the Augustans -- On Alexander Pope -- On Blake -- On Baudelaire -- On Verlaine -- On Chaucer -- On certain poems by Dunbar, Skelton, Gower, and a poem by an anonymous poet -- On Herrick -- On Smart, with a note on Gerard Manley Hopkins -- On Wordsworth.

LCCN

50010500

OCLC

• ocm25100639
• 25100639
• SCSB-14620125

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library