Cecil M Bowra (51 results)

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Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1959 Mentor paperback, MD275, copy is tight and unmarked with moderate wear, small remainder marking along edge of the book. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Free 1st class upgrade. The covers are heavily creased. The binding is tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked; however, the first few pages have creased upper corners. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 308 S. ; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 405.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1947). Limited hand-numbered ed. 1149/1500. 78pp. VG/VG copy, some pages uncut, price-clipped, now preserved in mylar jacket protector.

First Edition in this form. Provenance: Bookplate of Roy and Nina Merley. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and dust-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series: Meridian Books ; M279. Physical description: ix, 284 pages ; 21cm. Subjects: Greek literature -- History and criticism. 1 Kg. …

Pappband. Condition: Befriedigend. 192 S. : Abb. mit Text ; 4 Kanten gering bestossen, Eselsohr an Vorsatzblatt, dezente papierbedingte Seitenbräunung /// Standort Wimregal GUL-1392 WITHIN THE EU: shipping only to GERMANY and AUSTRIA due to the new EPR regulations. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 752. …

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; vii, 246 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Epic poetry History and criticism. Virgil Criticism and interpretation. Lui?s de Camo?es (1524?-1580) Criticism and interpretation. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) Criticism and interpretation. John Milton (1608-1674) Criticism and interpretation. C. M. Bowra (1898-1971). 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Re-issue. "A brilliant survey of classical culture and history from the time of Homer to the fall of Athens in 404 BC." 210p. plates. index. Book.

First Edition in this form. Provenance: Bookplate of Roy and Nina Merley. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and dust-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series: Meridian Books ; M279. Physical description: ix, 284 pages ; 21cm. Subjects: Greek literature -- History and criticism. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; vii, 246 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Epic poetry History and criticism. Virgil Criticism and interpretation. Lui?s de Camo?es (1524?-1580) Criticism and interpretation. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) Criticism and interpretation. John Milton (1608-1674) Criticism and interpretation. C. M. Bowra (1898-1971). 1 Kg.…

Reprint. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, with protective plastic wrapper stuck on. Bumps to boards. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xx, 127, [1] p. ; 22 cm. Notes; Translated from the Russian. Subjects; Russian poetry Translations into English. English poetry Translations from Russian. Poetry Russian literature, 1800-1900 Anthologies in translation. English poetry. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 306 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index. Contents; The romantic imagination -- Songs of innocence and experience -- The ancient mariner -- Ode on intimations of immortality -- Prometheus unbound -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- Don Juan -- Edgar Allan Poe -- The house of life -- Atalanta in Calydon -- Christina Rossetti -- The romantic achievement. Subjects; Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894). Blake, William (1757-1827). Wordsworth, William (1770-1850). Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834). Keats, John (1795-1821). Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Byron, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824; baron). Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). 1800-1899. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Library copy, with marks remaining. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi, 210 p. illus. 25 cm. Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 203-207). Subjects: Greeks.Greece Civilization. Antiquities Greece. Art, Greek. Civilization, Greek. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. (Great Ages of Man Series) Well illustrated introduction to the glories of Ancient Greece HC 192p. illus (some col) bibliography. index. Book.

Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now in a protective plastic sleeve. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 157 pages 23 cm. Contents: The change of attitude -- Prophets and seers -- The private vision -- Conflicts and uncertainties. Subjects: 1900-1999. Literature and society. Poetry, Modern 20th century History and criticism. Poetry, Modern 20th century History and criticism. Politics in literature 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg.…

2nd edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 211 p. : ill ; cm. Subjects; Greeks. Greece Civilization. 1 Kg.

Reprint. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, with protective plastic wrapper stuck on. Bumps to boards. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xx, 127, [1] p. ; 22 cm. Notes; Translated from the Russian. Subjects; Russian poetry Translations into English. English poetry Translations from Russian. Poetry Russian literature, 1800-1900 Anthologies in translation. English poetry. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 306 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index. Contents; The romantic imagination -- Songs of innocence and experience -- The ancient mariner -- Ode on intimations of immortality -- Prometheus unbound -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- Don Juan -- Edgar Allan Poe -- The house of life -- Atalanta in Calydon -- Christina Rossetti -- The romantic achievement. Subjects; Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894). Blake, William (1757-1827). Wordsworth, William (1770-1850). Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834). Keats, John (1795-1821). Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Byron, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824; baron). Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). 1800-1899. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Library copy, with marks remaining. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi, 210 p. illus. 25 cm. Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 203-207). Subjects: Greeks.Greece Civilization. Antiquities Greece. Art, Greek. Civilization, Greek. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, short closed tears, scuffing and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners scuffed, not price clipped (£2.50), no inscriptions, some slight page yellowing, internally clean tight and square, overall in vg condition. 303pp. Sir Maurice Bowra's (1898-1971) classic text on Pericles the Athenian statesman, and the nascent Athenian democracy, published in the year of his death. Quite a rare book. …

Pamphlet. 32 p.; 21.5 cm. (John Coffin memorial lecture ; 1961) Quotes appear in the original old spellings and in English translation. `By its carefully calculated means love/song secures both purity and strength--the purity of aim which seeks an authentic ideal of generosity and devotion, and the strength which gives to otherwise remote and elusive ends a recognizable place in a world of flesh and blood. The artifice and the formality which mediaeval love/song needed to rise above the level of popular song challenged poets to choose their words with a fine discrimina tion and to extract the utmost from the situation into which they had been led by the compelling discipline of love. This is by no means the only way to treat love, and only at this period has this treatment been predominant andalmost universal.But just because the poets believed in it and sang ofit with full conviction and a deep sense of their artistic responsibilities, their words have a peculiar freshness, which testifies to the unexpected effect which an essentially intellecutal theory may have upon the most wayward of the passions. By 1300 this art was moribund. In southern France the cult of courtly love had been dealt a cruel blow by the Albigensian Crusade of Simon de Montfort, but even in other parts of Europe the decay of the chivalrous outlook meant that its love/songs were doomed.The richest legacy fell to heirs whomthe poets themselves would not have found entirely to their taste,and was turned to the transformation of courtly into Christ ian love. Though Dante put Frederick II and Bertran de Born in Hell.he learned something from them all, and.raised it to an even loftier level by transmuting it into the most exalted form of transcendent love. (31 f.) Good in orig. yellow wrapper. Staples rusting.…

Pamphlet. 32 p.; 21.5 cm. (John Coffin memorial lecture ; 1961) Quotes appear in the original old spellings and in English translation. `By its carefully calculated means love/song secures both purity and strength--the purity of aim which seeks an authentic ideal of generosity and devotion, and the strength which gives to otherwise remote and elusive ends a recognizable place in a world of flesh and blood. The artifice and the formality which mediaeval love/song needed to rise above the level of popular song challenged poets to choose their words with a fine discrimina tion and to extract the utmost from the situation into which they had been led by the compelling discipline of love. This is by no means the only way to treat love, and only at this period has this treatment been predominant andalmost universal.But just because the poets believed in it and sang ofit with full conviction and a deep sense of their artistic responsibilities, their words have a peculiar freshness, which testifies to the unexpected effect which an essentially intellecutal theory may have upon the most wayward of the passions. By 1300 this art was moribund. In southern France the cult of courtly love had been dealt a cruel blow by the Albigensian Crusade of Simon de Montfort, but even in other parts of Europe the decay of the chivalrous outlook meant that its love/songs were doomed.The richest legacy fell to heirs whomthe poets themselves would not have found entirely to their taste,and was turned to the transformation of courtly into Christ ian love. Though Dante put Frederick II and Bertran de Born in Hell.he learned something from them all, and.raised it to an even loftier level by transmuting it into the most exalted form of transcendent love. (31 f.) Good in orig. yellow wrapper. Staples rusting.…