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Hardcover. The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 107 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157215
ISBN
9781857157215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.68

Paperback. This edition brings together the fullest range of Rossetti's poetry and prose in one volume, including 'Goblin Market', stories (the complete text of Maude), devotional prose, and personal letters. The poetry is arranged in a single chronological sequence to show Rossetti's poetic development. Editor(s): Humphries, Simon. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages, facsimile frontispiece and title-page to 'Goblin Market'. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192807151
ISBN
9780192807151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.29

Hardcover. The major seventeenth-century English poet between Shakespeare and Milton, Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet. But he was also the author of satires and epistles, and a series of religious poems including the Holy Sonnets. This volume presents a complete portrait of this poet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 111 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157222
ISBN
9781857157222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.69

Hardcover. Probably the most important single figure in nineteenth century American literature, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) exerted an enormous influence over later writers, especially French Symbolist poets, including Baudelaire and Mallarme. This book includes all extant poems and extensive selections from his essays on poetry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 124 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st ed.thus.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157246
ISBN
9781857157246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.71

Hardcover. Features the poems and selected prose extracts by Kubla Khan, Christabel and The Ancient Mariner. Num Pages: 258 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 113 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157352
ISBN
9781857157352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Hardcover. Offers a selection of the poet's work, including all the lyrics and the important prophetic books. Num Pages: 440 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 666.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
440
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150346
ISBN
9781857150346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.66

Paperback. Shortly before his death in 1995, Donald Davie sent his publisher the poem, "Our Father". This ten-part meditation broke a seven-year poetic silence. This book contains a body of poems which extend the concerns of his late years, concerns with the "sacred", with England and with our age. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135. Weight in Grams: 134. Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - By Period - 20th Century,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - General"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Carcanet Press
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KHS0038573
ISBN
9781857542905
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.99
€ 15.02

Presents a Sappho by a master poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice.. Translator(s): Lombardo, Stanley. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
68
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872205925
ISBN
9780872205925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice..' Translator(s): Lombardo, Stanley. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 82.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
68
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872205918
ISBN
9780872205918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.52

Paperback. It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. This work presents a portrait of the artist as a young man. It confronts painfully personal issues of adultery, jealousy and betrayal. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages, music. BIC Classification: DCF; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140185553
ISBN
9780140185553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.40

Hardcover. An intensely philosophical and religious poet, Olga Sedakova writes of nature, music, and the inner, spiritual life. This volume introduces to an English-speaking audience a selection of her poems. Translator(s): Kelly, Catriona. Num Pages: 117 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
117
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838755587
ISBN
9780838755587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.13

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140422504
ISBN
9780140422504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Hardcover. Features many kinds of equine characters from war horses to cowboys' trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. This book also features the famous Trojan horse in Virgil's "Aeneid", only to see it from a quite different perspective in Matthea Harvey's whimsical "Inside the Good Idea". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 110 x 18. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841597843
ISBN
9781841597843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Hardcover. 93pp. Fine
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1948
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHS1003519
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 145.00

Hardcover. One of America's best-loved poets, Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her lyrics and sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she led in Greenwich Village in the 1920s ceased to shock them. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 115 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841597850
ISBN
9781841597850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.71

Paperback. First published by Faber in 1930, this second edition omitted seven items and the author added new poems in their place. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571283514
ISBN
9780571283514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.08

Hardback. The tenth and last volume of The Works of Stephen Cranecontains all of his known poetry and all of his known independent unfinished manuscripts, including the poetry collections The Black Riders and Other Lines and War is Kind, uncollected poems, and literary remains.

BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DQ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 903.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813906102
ISBN
9780813906102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.61

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 28.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632063
ISBN
9780691632063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.89

Hardcover. Series: Field Poetry Series. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oberlin College Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780932440976
ISBN
9780932440976
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.13

Paperback. Series: Field Poetry Series. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oberlin College Press United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9780932440952
ISBN
9780932440952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. While Charles Dickens is best known and celebrated for his prolific journalistic output and novelistic creations, he also devoted some of his creative energies to verse. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496904
ISBN
9781847496904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.05

Hardback. Venantius Fortunatus, a master of the short praise poem and a canonical Christian Latin poet, wrote eleven volumes of hymns, epigrams, elegies, and other religious and epistolary verses addressed to kings, bishops, and abbesses. This volume presents for the first time in English translation all of his poetry, apart from a single long saint's life. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; HRC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674974920
ISBN
9780674974920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.08

Paperback. Features poetry that affirms author's belief in a whole natural order. This book deals with his delicately observed descriptions of landscapes that are infused throughout with a sense of unity and Buddhist devotion. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141398419
ISBN
9780141398419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.62

Hardback. Includes poems that illustrate the mingling of classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of the age of Lorenzo de' Medici. Translator(s): Chatfield, Mary P. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031487
ISBN
9780674031487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.15

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