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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardcover. A comprehensive guide to Dante's life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante's writing, and the reception of his work by later readers, from the 14th century to the present. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631228523
ISBN
9780631228523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.96

paperback. In bold, dazzling prose, Flynn tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led him and his father into a homeless shelter, onto Boston's streets, and finally to each other. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 27. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
9780571214082
ISBN
9780571214082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BGH; DSBH; DSC; HBJD1; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953478095
ISBN
9780953478095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.47

Hardback. Addresses questions such as: What are the best anthologies of African-American poetry? What have African-American poets written about such highly charged issues as religion? Politics? Patriotism? Slavery? Racism? Money? Sex? What have they written about Harlem? The civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King Jr? Editor(s): Frankovich, Nicholas; Larzelere, David. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC; GBCR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 180 x 17. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231112345
ISBN
9780231112345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.70
€ 112.66

Paperback. A thoughtful and provocative 30-year record of Nichol's approaches to textual production. Editor(s): Miki, Roy. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DCF; DQ; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 785.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Talon Books,Canada Canada
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889224476
ISBN
9780889224476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.66

Paperback. With tactile eroticism coursing through, this work presents poems that never give up hope; they exhibit a tenacious optimism - or at least a steely pragmatism - that says: we have what we are given, there is no alternative, and we all must find what joy we can in life, and in its living. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224081719
ISBN
9780224081719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history. This companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. It offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Editor(s): Roberts, Neil. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 648 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1038.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405113618
ISBN
9781405113618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857546590
ISBN
9781857546590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.64

Hardcover. This book considers the kinds of responsibility which modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and personal. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380352
ISBN
9781781380352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.68

Paperback. The original edition of this work was entitled "A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney". It has been revised throughout and contains additional chapters on each of Heaney's poetry collections published since the first edition, as well as separate discussions of his work as a translator and essayist. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571177479
ISBN
9780571177479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.06

hardcover. Latin epics such as Virgil's "Aeneid", Lucan's "Civil War", and Statius' "Thebaid" addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favors, and payments defined their conceptions of social order. This book argues that these exchanges play a central yet overlooked role in epic depictions of Roman society. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226111872
ISBN
9780226111872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.43
€ 55.72

Paperback. This volume of poetry provides a collection of funeral poems, appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC; HRA; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146. Funeral Poems. 96 pages. This volume of poetry provides a collection of funeral poems, appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC; HRA; VFJX. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 7. Weight: 146.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852246358
ISBN
9781852246358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.48

Paperback. The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and accomplished of all medieval literary texts. This book contains a lively parallel-text translation in modern English, as well as a glossary, notes and introduction. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&2 halftones, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 15. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859896900
ISBN
9780859896900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.53

Hardback. A theory of poetic production and reception based on both literary and anthropological studies and models. Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750530
ISBN
9780804750530
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Paperback. A theory of poetic production and reception based on both literary and anthropological studies and models. Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804750547
ISBN
9780804750547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Hardcover. Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature. Translator(s): Dubin, Nathaniel E. Num Pages: 1024 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 143 x 49. Weight in Grams: 966.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
982
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871403575
ISBN
9780871403575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.99

Hardback. Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 312 pages, 61 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC; GPFC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823272990
ISBN
9780823272990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.64

Hardcover. Offers a collection of critical essays on the prize-winning contemporary British poet, Don Paterson. This book shows that Paterson is a figure who actively negotiates his place within literary history, as well as confronting that history with lyric grace, humour and directness. Editor(s): Pollard, Natalie. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748669417
ISBN
9780748669417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.07
€ 103.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 92 pages, 45 illus. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 279 x 7. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Grantha Corporation United States
Number of pages
92
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890206567
ISBN
9781890206567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.25

Paperback. Shyness needs no cure, claim the authors of thoughtful, raw, and humorous essays and poems. Editor(s): Lewis, Naomi K.; Altrows, Rona. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888646705
ISBN
9780888646705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.42

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