ix 256 pages, indexed. Apart from the remnants of a small price sticker on the head of the front end paper, whose attempted removal has caused very minor damage (I'm innocent!), the book is as new. "Albert Spaulding Cook (born October 28, 1925, Exeter, New Hampshire; died July 7, 1998; Providence, Rhode Island) was a noted American literary critic, poet, classical scholar, teacher and translator. He taught Classics, English and Comparative Literature at the University of California (Berkeley), Western Reserve, the University at Buffalo and Brown University, as well as at various universities abroad" "This book broaches three areas: the theory of image, the analogues for enlisting the significances of images between poetry and the visual arts, and the structural preconceptions of some poetry, mostly modern" (front flap)