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J. B. Leishman (1902–1963)

Author of The Monarch of Wit: An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

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Includes the names: Leishman J.B., J.B. Leishman, James Blair Leishman, J. B. Donne] Leishman, introduction) Leishman (editor

Works by J. B. Leishman

The Monarch of Wit: An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne (1967) 40 copies

Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets (1967) 24 copies

The art of Marvell's poetry (1968) 13 copies

The three Parnassus plays (1598-1601) (2010) 7 copies

Milton's minor poems (1969) 7 copies

Translating Horace. Thirty odes translated into the original metres with the Latin text and an introductory and critical essay by J. B. Leishman (1956) 2 copies

RAINER MARIA RILKE. New Poems. The German Text with a Translation. (1964) 1 copy

On translating Homer : thirty odes translated into the original metres with Latin text and an introductory and critical essay 1 copy

The Westminster Directory 1 copy

The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne 1 copy

Associated Works

Duino Elegies (1923) — Translator, some editions — 1,955 copies, 18 reviews

Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems (1957) — Translator — 171 copies

Penguin Twentieth Century Classics : Rainer Maria Rilke : selected poems (1964) — Translator, Introduction — 148 copies, 1 review

Poems, 1906 to 1926 (1959) — Translator, some editions — 31 copies

Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (2008) — Translator — 22 copies

Rainer Maria Rilke Selected Works Volume II Poetry (1992) — Translator, some editions — 17 copies

From the Remains of Count C. W.: The German Text with an English Translation and Introduction (1952) — Translator, some editions — 11 copies

RAINER MARIA RILKE. New Poems. The German Text with a Translation. — Translator, some editions — 2 copies

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Legal name: Leishman, James Blair
Birthdate: 1902
Date of death: 1963
Gender: male
Occupations: academic (lecturer in English, Oxford University)
Organizations: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

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Friedrich Hölderlin

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Also by: 8
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ISBNs: 22

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