| Series |
New American translation series ; vol. 3
New American translation series ; vol. 3. ^A360031
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| Contents |
"Fyrst forth gewat ..." ; Beowulf's death-wound / from Beowulf -- An Anglo-Saxon riddle / from Exeter Book -- The siren ; The whale / from The Middle English Bestiary -- Quatrain / François Villon -- The albatross ; Correspondences / Charles Baudelaire -- Sonnet V / Edgar Degas -- Les transparents / René Char -- Fire ; The notebook of the pine-woods (extracts) ; Rain ; Fauna and flora / Francis Ponge -- Apoem I / Henri Pichette -- To R.N. Rikov-Gukovski / Anna Akhmatova -- Procession with the Madonna / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Six years later / Joseph Brodsky -- Mr. T.S. Eliot cooking pasta / Joséf Tornai -- Self-portrait at thirty / Miklós Veress -- Weightless now / Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Rondeau of the little horses / Manuel Bandeira -- Song / Vinícius de Moraes. |
| Local note | This is copy III with "Quatrain" by François Villon and autographed "Richard Wilbur" on the colophon page. Sewn chapbook with marbled paper covers. Stuart Wright Book Collection #198.7. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | "... Issued in a first edition of twelve hundred copies. ... Ten copies are numbered I-X, signed, and include a poem in holograph by Richard Wilbur; twenty-six copies are lettered A-Z and signed by Richard Wilbur; and fourteen copies, numbered i-xiv and signed by Richard Wilbur, have been retained by the publisher for presentation purposes"-- Colophon. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Whale, and other uncollected translations. 1st ed. Brockport, N.Y. : BOA Editions, 1982 |
| LCCN | 82071632 |
| ISBN | 0918526329 |
| ISBN | 9780918526328 |
| ISBN | 0918526337 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780918526335 (pbk.) |
