Selected Letters - The Works of Witter Bynner
Bynner, Witter; Kraft, James - General Editor; Smith, William Jay - Editor and A Critical Introduction
Published by Farrar Strause Giroux, New York, 1978
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275 Pages Indexed. Selected from over 7,000 letters, most of them at the Houghton Library at Harvard, this concluding volume of The Works of Witter Bynner distills the eighty-seven years of Bynner's life (1881-1968). His correspondence describes travels to Mexico, to China, and to Europe; his life in Boston, New Hampshire, New York, and Santa Fe. There are letters to D. H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Christopher Isherwood, Amy Lowell, Henry Miller, Carl Van Vechten, and many others. This collection represents the many aspects of a long and varied career spanning the transition from Gilded Age to Nuclear Age. Poet, critic, biographer, playwright, translator from the Chinese, editor, and man of letters, Witter Bynner deserves to be better known to contemporary readers. "He was not," writes James Kraft in his introduction to this volume, "except for a brief period in the late teens and the twenties, a member of our literary establishment-in fact, he later represented a movement away from the mainstream. …
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- Title
- Selected Letters - The Works of Witter Bynner
- Author
- Bynner, Witter; Kraft, James - General Editor; Smith, William Jay - Editor and A Critical Introduction
- Publisher
- Farrar Strause Giroux, New York
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Illustrator
- Krupat, Cnthia - Design
- Edition
- First Printing Stated
- Dimensions
- 5 1/2" x 8"
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