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 InfoNew York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [©1941]
Descriptionxii, 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 noteJoyner 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