A Beginning(1st Edition) Poems by WilliamBurford Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1966 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04279-5, ISBN: 0-393-04279-0
"William Burford's poems are marked by deep vision, austere and passionate feeling, exactitude of diction, and gravity of presence. He writes of his own work: "Poetry, at least as i have leaned to want to write it, is a way of giving reality and even courage to the life which a man senses within himself and which he knows, by living among other men, is their chief possession also. The poetry which seems to me the most admirable is charac ..."
"Early in his career, Marcel Proust, who greatly admired John Ruskin, published translations of two works by the English critic – La Bible d’Amiens (1900) and Sésame et les Lys (1906). He wrote a substantial preface to each book and provided discursive notes that were themselves often small essays. Rare now, even in their French versions, the preface to La Bible d’Amiens and the notes to both books have never before been available in Eng ..."
A Beginning Poems by WilliamBurford Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 1966 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04286-3, ISBN: 0-393-04286-3
"William Burford's poems are marked by deep vision, austere and passionate feeling, exactitude of diction, and gravity of presence. He writes of his own work: "Poetry, at least as i have leaned to want to write it, is a way of giving reality and even courage to the life which a man senses within himself and which he knows, by living among other men, is their chief possession also. The poetry which seems to me the most admirable is charac ..."
"Early in his career, Marcel Proust, who greatly admired John Ruskin, published translations of two works by the English critic La Bible d’Amiens (1900) and Sésame et les Lys (1906). He wrote a substantial preface to each book and provided discursive notes that were themselves often small essays. Rare now, even in their French versions, the preface to La Bible d’Amiens and the notes to both books have never before been available in Eng ..."