ISBN10: 1931082863, ISBN13: 9781931082860, [publisher: Library of America, New York] Hardcover First Edition half inch closed tear to dj otw fine. 183 p.: ill.; 20 cm. American poets project, 18. Features a range of previously unpublished works as well as pieces written in response to World War I, in a comprehensive survey that that sheds light on how Wharton used poetry to express the deeply emotional side of her nature. Contents: Introduction.--Verses (1878).--Sonnets:.--Le Viol d'Amour.--Vespers.--Bettine to Goethe.--Spring song.--Prophecies of summer.--Song ("O love, where are the hours fled").--Heaven.--Maiden, arise.--Spring.--May Marian.--Opportunities.--Last token.--Raffaelle to the Fornarina.--Chriemhild of burgundy.--Some woman to some man.--Lines on Chaucer.--What we shall say fifty years hence, of our fancy-dress quadrille.--Nothing more.--June and December.--October.--Woman I know.--Daisies.--Impromptu.--Notre Dame des Fleurs.--Translations from the German (Three songs from the German of Emanuel Geibel).--Longing (From the German of Schiller).--Song(From the German of Ruckert).--Artemis to Actaeon, and other verse (1909).--Artemis to Actaeon.--Life.--Vesalius in Zante.--Margaret of Cortona.--Torchbearer.--Mortal lease.--Experience.--Grief.--Chartres.--Two backgrounds.--Tomb of Ilaria Guinigi.--One grief.--Eumenidies.--Orpheus.--Autumn sunset.--Moonrise over Tyringham.--All souls.--All saints.--Old pole star.--Grave.--Non ...

ISBN10: 1931082863, ISBN13: 9781931082860, [publisher: Library of America, New York] Hardcover First Edition 183 pages. #18 in the American Poets Project Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
[Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 1931082863, ISBN13: 9781931082860, [publisher: Library of America] Hardcover 200 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]