The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

Brooks, Cleanth

Published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1947

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Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1947. First (1st) Printing (no subsequent printings listed, per publisher's 1947 statement of policy) of the First Edition. Near Fine+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square with deckled fore-edges and no markings other than pencil underlinings in Chapter 2. The Binding is full red cloth color uniform throughout, with bright black title, etc., to the spine, white endpapers unmarked but for pencil erasures to the front free endpaper, and all corners square and sharp. No Jacket. See the photos. xi, 270 pages (including three Appendices and an Index). 5 3/4" x 8 1/8". A collection of essays considered to be a critical text in the development of the New Criticism. Divided into eleven chapters, the first ten of which involve close reading of poems by John Donne, Shakespeare, Milton, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, Keats, Lord Tennyson, Yeats, Thomas Gray, and T. S. Eliot.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
• Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1947
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket