School Days

Fraser, Elizabeth, edited by John MacKenzie Wood, M. A. sometime scholar of Clare College, Cambridge: Life in Early Days (Life in Past Ages Series #1 ) James Nisbet, London 1935

HB NODJ, Blue & Creme pictorial Cloth, June 1935 reprint, ,former owner name, X school Library, London, minor fox,soil , & cvr rub,2 small mended tears on 2 pgs at btm, VG, AS-IS, NODJ No Jacket Hard Cover

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[Hughes, Thomas] . SCHOOL DAYS AT RUGBY . 1857 .
[Hughes, Thomas]. SCHOOL DAYS AT RUGBY. BY AN OLD BOY. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. 409pp. 12pp. ads. 8vo. Embossed brown cloth. Moderate scuffing, rubbing on edges, covers. Internally sound copy,200.00 .

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Clements, James Wiley: Yesterday, or Long Ago - Poems by Wiley Clements, Harwich Port Clock & Rose Press 2004
ISBN: 1-59386-025-0 As New Campbell, Jeanette Sloan

First edition. Limited, numbered & signed edition of 125 copies. Cloth binding, 93 pp. In slipcase. James Wiley Clements, although he would deny it, stands as a remnant of a transitory time in the evolution of our consciousness as a people. This is a man who stood with Douglas MacArthur on the bridge of his flagship at Inchon, Korea, when to be an American was to stand for bravery, strength, and compassion- virtues we seem to have lost sight of now. Born in 1928 and raised by his grandmother on a one-mule farm in rural Alabama, the product of a fundamentalist Christian upbringing, he made the transition into a world larger than any he could have envisioned as a child. It is his (and our) gift that he observed the details of this passage so well and for so long. These poems, his first published book, preserve a perspective both wry and gentle that is almost extinct in American letters. These are immensely appealing poems: sometimes caustic, sometimes pensive, always alive with a vivid undercurrent of humor and compassion. He speaks to the Confederate dead, whose dying world shaped his early days. He speaks to the grace and humility that lives in all of us, urging, in his understated manner, a return to the roots of our national humanity before it withers away entirely. Wiley would say these are the simple poems of a simple man near the end of his days. He'd say he's publishing them because he wants to please a few friends and leave something behind for his grandson to remember him by. Yet, in "Yesterday, or Long Ago" there is a palpable sense of a man bearing witness to his times, appealing to the common denominator that makes us, collectively, the American people. And in this sense, we are all his grandchildren, and we may well be moved by this simple testament of a not-so-simple man. We hear him arguing with us already; "You can't say that. I make no such claims!" And this, of course, is true; Wiley makes no such claims. His poems speak for themselves. About the Author: Born in 1928, James Wiley Clements was raised by his widowed grandmother on a one-mule farm in central Alabama. With only a fourth grade education herself, his grandmother filled many lined tablets with her own poems and taught the little boy to write rhyming verse even before he entered elementary school. He attended a semi-rural high school at the village of Maplesville, Alabama, where his English teacher encouraged him to send poems to Senior Scholastic Magazine, which became his first publishing "credit." When his grandmother died in 1945, Clements was taken in by his uncle Alonzo, a farmer and Nazarene preacher who taught him, among other precepts, "You can't quarrel with a man about what he likes, as long as it's decent." Graduating from high school virtually penniless, he took a competitive examination and won a four-year scholarship to Birmingham-Southern College. He left college before the end of his first year to join the Navy, which sent him to journalism school, and he spent the next 7 years as a journalist and as political affairs assistant in the Pacific. At the outbreak of the Korean war Clements was called to Tokyo, and from thence to Douglas MacArthur's flagship, where he witnessed the first landing in Korea. He mustered out of the Navy in 1952, took his degree from Birmingham Southern in 1954, and eventually entered the nascent HMO business, where he spent his working career. Retiring from his consulting business in 1992, he undertook a study of Japanese language and literature, translating several important Japanese novels little known in the West, two of which had never before been put into English. He also resumed writing poetry in a serious way. In 1999, unhappy with the state of formal verse, Clements recruited two poets, Robert Mezey of Pomona College in Claremont Calif., and Bill Morgan of Illinois State University, to help him create and edit The Susquehanna Quarterly, an online magazine for new traditional poetry. After lapsing in 2003, the magazine was revived in 2004 and continues as one of the most respected poetry journals on the Internet. Clements now lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania with his wife, Deane Ellen. They have a daughter and a grandson living in Urbana, Illinois. Yesterday, or Long Ago is Wiley Clements' first published book of poetry. Signed by Author First Edition As New Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Limited and Numbered

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Plath, Sylvia: Winter Trees. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Mit einem Register. 5. Auflage. London, Boston: Faber & Faber Press, 1987. ISBN: 0571108628
Guter Zustand. Wie ungelesen Besitzvermerk. - Sylvia Plath, "eine der beunruhigendsten, wichtigsten Poetinnen dieses Jahrhunderts" (Eva Demski) TTo this day, Sylvia Plath's writings continue to inspire and provoke. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, remains a classic of American literature, and The Colossus (1960), Ariel (1965), Crossing the Water (1971), Winter Trees (1971), and The Collected Poems (1981) have placed her among this century's essential American poets. Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, the first child of Aurelia and Otto Plath. When Sylvia was eight years old, her father died-an event that would haunt her remaining years-and the family moved to the college town of Wellesley. By high school, Plath's talents were firmly established; in fact, her first published poem had appeared when she was eight. In 1950, she entered Smith College, where she excelled academically and continued to write; and in 1951 she won Mademoiselle magazine's fiction contest. Her experiences during the summer of 1953-as a guest editor at Mademoiselle in New York City and in deepening depression back home-provided the basis for The Bell Jar. Near that summer's end, Plath nearly succeeded in killing herself. After therapy and electroshock, however, she resumed her academic and literary endeavors. Plath graduated from Smith in 1955 and, as a Fulbright Scholar, entered Newnham College, in Cambridge, England, where she met the British poet, Ted Hughes. They were married a year later. After a two-year tenure on the Smith College faculty and a brief stint in Boston, Plath and Hughes returned to England, where their two children were born. Plath had been successful in placing poems in several prestigious magazines, but suffered repeated rejection in her attempts to place a first book. The Colossus appeared inEngland, however, in the fall of 1960, and the publisher, William Heinemann, also bought her first novel. By June 1962, she had begun the poems that eventually appeared in Ariel. Later that year, separated from Hughes, Plath immersed herself in caring for her children, completing The Bell Jar, and writing poems at a breathtaking pace. A few days before Christmas 1962, she moved with the children to a London flat. By the time The Bell Jar was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, in early 1963, she was in desperate circumstances. Her marriage was over, she and her children were ill, and the winter was the coldest in a century. Early on the morning of February 11, Plath turned on the cooking gas and killed herself. Plath was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for her Collected Poems. Sehr guter Zustand. Besitzername auf dem Vorsatz.

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