Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. Offers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148663
- ISBN
- 9780691148663
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.45
€ 46.99
€ 33.45
Hardback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691645261
- ISBN
- 9780691645261
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Condition: New
€ 112.72
€ 112.72
Paperback. Olga M. Davidson's major reassessment of the classical Persian epic the Shahnama argues that its poet is actually a character in the work who coexists with the heroes and kings celebrated in the poem. Documenting the text's oral performance tradition, Davidson shows that the heroic style of the Shahnama stems from ancient Indo-European traditions. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073210
- ISBN
- 9780674073210
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.60
€ 27.99
€ 24.60
Paperback. Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century ce epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women's laments. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 238.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073203
- ISBN
- 9780674073203
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.49
€ 23.99
€ 20.49
Paperback. Glorifies the spectacular achievements of Iranian civilization from its mythologized beginnings to the time of the Arab Conquest. This book takes a fresh look at the reception of Ferdowsi's poetry, especially in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 8. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674726802
- ISBN
- 9780674726802
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.37
€ 19.99
€ 18.37
Paperback. A study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus ("Odyssey 19"). It makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication important for the interaction between the two speakers. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053359
- ISBN
- 9780674053359
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.49
€ 23.99
€ 20.49
hardcover. Osip Mandelstam is the maverick Russian poet. This title carries the reader through Mandelstam's early life and education in prerevolutionary Petersburg and at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Heidelberg and his return to revolutionary Russia. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843284
- ISBN
- 9781934843284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.75
€ 35.75
Paperback. Can you tell an iamb from a trochee? An anapest from a amphibrach? Why do children always take such delight in dactylic tetrameter? Is a ballad the same as a ballade? What is poetic rhythm? Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 125. .
- Publisher
- Wooden Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904263913
- ISBN
- 9781904263913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.23
€ 10.23
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010131
- ISBN
- 9781847010131
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Condition: New
€ 115.27
€ 115.27
Paperback. Shows how William Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 31. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691012919
- ISBN
- 9780691012919
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.85
€ 42.99
€ 30.85
Hardcover. Gerard Manley Hopkins spent five unhappy years in Ireland before his death in 1889, during which time he wrote perhaps the most interesting group of all his poems. Working outwards from Hopkins's most intimate creations, author Norman White examines the poet's complicated and troubled personality. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b&w plates, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900621717
- ISBN
- 9781900621717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.69€ 51.13
€ 55.69
€ 51.13
Paperback. Gerard Manley Hopkins spent five unhappy years in Ireland before his death in 1889, during which time he wrote perhaps the most interesting group of all his poems. Working outwards from Hopkins's most intimate creations, author Norman White examines the poet's complicated and troubled personality. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b&w plates, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 192 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900621724
- ISBN
- 9781900621724
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.89
€ 30.99
€ 25.89
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Pastuchiv, Olga. Num Pages: 352 pages, 194 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDFC; DC; DSC; WNGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252081095
- ISBN
- 9780252081095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. In this new interpretation of the Education of Cyrus, in which Xenophon theorized about leadership, Sandridge considers Xenophon's portrait of Cyrus as sincerely laudatory though not idealized. He explores the wider context in which Xenophon's Theory of Leadership was conceived, as well as the problems of leadership he sought to address. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067028
- ISBN
- 9780674067028
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.47
€ 27.99
€ 24.47
Hardback. This new guide leads readers through the complexities of the text with detailed commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks and contexts. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1456.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639991
- ISBN
- 9780748639991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.87€ 85.33
€ 88.87
€ 85.33
Paperback. Translator(s): Jayyusi, Lena; Elmusa, Sharif. Series: Emerging Voices: International Fiction Series. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Interlink Pub Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566561938
- ISBN
- 9781566561938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.00
€ 21.99
€ 19.00
Hardback. Features the poems of the author who was a popular and highly influential figure in the cultural life of London until his death in 2004. Num Pages: 116 pages, 44 illustrations, 36 in colour. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 116
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500513835
- ISBN
- 9780500513835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.39
€ 25.99
€ 22.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Nikkanen, Anita. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DB; DQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 219 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474266147
- ISBN
- 9781474266147
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.40
€ 25.99
€ 25.40
Paperback. Little known as a poet in his own time, Andrew Marvell (1621-78) was a patriotic politician and champion of religious toleration during the Restoration. This book presents his poetry, accompanied by annotations giving a record of literary, philosophical and theological analogues and allusions. It also addresses the local points of interpretation. Editor(s): Smith, Nigel. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 190 x 27. Weight in Grams: 946.
- Publisher
- Pearson
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405832830
- ISBN
- 9781405832830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99
€ 53.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903039694
- ISBN
- 9781903039694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.74
€ 21.99
€ 18.74