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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Paperback. William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary on cataclysmic events such as the Peasants' Revolt (1381). This book deals with this topic. Editor(s): Pearsall, Derek. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 438 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 784.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
438
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859897846
ISBN
9780859897846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Anniversary
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568365404
ISBN
9781568365404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.80

Paperback. The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405195775
ISBN
9781405195775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.95

Paperback. William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca, where he lived from the age of five in the household of his father, the poet Robert Graves. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his "Muses" and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712601160
ISBN
9780712601160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Hardback. Poetry and Apocalypse provides a theological reading of poetic language in the Christian epic tradition from the Bible and Dante to James Joyce and furnishes a critical negative theology of poetic language. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804759106
ISBN
9780804759106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.78

Paperback. Critically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer and others, this work contributes both to the criticism of Dante's "Divine Comedy", and to the theory of interpretation. It uses hermeneutical theory to provide a reading of the poem, focusing on Dante's address to the reader. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC; HPCB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226259987
ISBN
9780226259987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. This text argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. It shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license. Series: Classics and Contemporary Thought. Num Pages: 319 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520221567
ISBN
9780520221567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. A collection of poems that take a wide range of themes from metaphysics to melancholy, social climbing to political satire, and from love to loss. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140189629
ISBN
9780140189629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.36

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641485
ISBN
9780691641485
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.43

Paperback. Hugh MacDiarmid hailed William Dunbar (1461?-1520?) as "in many ways the most modern, as he is the most varied, of Scottish poets". This fully annotated edition makes the richness of Dunbar's language accessible to the modern reader. Editor(s): Wood, Harriet Harvey. Num Pages: 135 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857547191
ISBN
9781857547191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Paperback. Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482320
ISBN
9781349482320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Paperback. This literary life of the best-known and best-loved Romantic poet uses Coleridge's own 'literary life' - his Biographia Literaria - as both starting point and destination. Now available in paperback, William Christie's immensely readable account of Coleridge's life and works offers detailed discussion of all his major poems and criticism. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580961
ISBN
9780230580961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691637075
ISBN
9780691637075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.54

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691608655
ISBN
9780691608655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.19

Paperback. This selection of Blake's work was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats. Yeats, one of the few poets comparable to Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415289856
ISBN
9780415289856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.07

Paperback. One of a series, this one concentrating on the work by William Blake Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198310785
ISBN
9780198310785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.79

Paperback. Showing the two contrary states of the Human Soul. With an introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Num Pages: 156 pages, 54 colour plates, 1 black and white illustration. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192810892
ISBN
9780192810892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300197679
ISBN
9780300197679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.93

Hardcover. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319470832
ISBN
9783319470832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.02

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691600376
ISBN
9780691600376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

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