The poetry of flight : an anthology / edited by Selden Rodman.
| Author/creator | Rodman, Selden |
| Other author | Rodman, Selden, 1909-2002 inscriber. |
| Other author | Eberhart, Betty, former owner. |
| Other author | Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, former owner. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [©1941] |
| Description | xii, 190 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Exploration by air / Fleming MacLiesh -- The fall of Icarus / Ovid -- Pegasus / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A sonnet / Philippe Desportes -- A letter from Switzerland / J. W. von Goethe -- Ecstasis / C. G. Jung -- The flight of Satan / John Milton -- Fragments from the old masters: Shakespeare, Milton , Blake, Shelley and Tennyson -- To the man-of-war bird / Walt Whitman -- The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Knapsack of salvation / Wolfgang Langewiesche -- The frigate pelican / Marianne Moore -- Mallard / Rex Warner -- The nuptial flight of the queen bee / Maurice Maeterlinck -- The caged eagle's death dream / Robinson Jeffers -- Sul volo degli Uccelli / Leonardo da Vinci -- The empire of the air / L. P. Mouillard -- The pioneers / Selden Rodman -- The structure of the plane / Muriel Rukeyser -- Palm Island plane factory / Francis Chichester -- The plane / Sidney Alexander -- Entries from "Journal of an airman" / W. H. Auden -- Message received / Sonia Raiziss -- Sky writers / William Rose Benet -- The aviator / Alexander Blok -- A sonnet to Orpheus / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The war in heaven / John Milton -- Flying school 1914 / Richard Euringer -- An Irish airman foresees his death / W. B. Yeats -- Sagittarius rising / Cecil Lewis -- All the dead pilots / William Faulkner -- The air raid / Archibald MacLeish -- Prelude to apocalypse / Andre Malraux -- To poets and airmen / Stephen Spender -- A letter to Robert Graves / T. E. Lawrence -- The story of my death / Lauro de Bosis -- Elegy on the pilot / Reuel Denney -- Dark / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- The tool / Antoine de Saint Exupery. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy inscribed on front fly-leaf "To Dick [i.e., Richard] and Betty [Eberhart], ... affectionately, Seldon [Rodman]." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #45.22. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
| LCCN | 41014035 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | TL554 .R62 1941 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |
| Joyner | Stuart Wright Collection | TL554 .R62 1941 | ✔ Available | Request Material |