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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Yakubinsky, Lev Petrovich, 1892-1945 author. | Eskin, Michael

translator editor.

Title: On language & poetry : three essays / Lev Petrovich Yakubinsky ; translated from the Russian, edited, and with an introduction by Michael Eskin.

Other titles: On language and poetry

Description: New York : Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., | Series: Subway line ; no. 13 | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017015857 | ISBN 9781935830511 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Poetics. | Language and languages--Philosophy.

| Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913--Criticism and

interpretation.

Classification: LCC PN1042 .Y35 2017 | DDC 808.1--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017015857