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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. It is in the works included in this volume that the recognizable and characteristic voice of Shelley emerges-unmistakable, consistent, and vital. Editor(s): Reiman, Donald H.; Fraistat, Neil; Crook, Nora; Curran, Stuart; O'Neill, Michael; Neth, Michael J.; Brookshire, David. Num Pages: 1152 pages, 15, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 168 x 66. Weight in Grams: 1758.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
1152
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421401362
ISBN
9781421401362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.84

Paperback. This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 816 pages, 5 illustrations, index, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393977523
ISBN
9780393977523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.43

Paperback. * Contains both original research and accessible coverage of the key issues -- makes it ideal for students of Chaucer at all levels. * Completely new approach -- the volume highlights themes and issues, rather than being arranged by Chaucera s works. Editor(s): Brown, Peter. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 536 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 28. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631235903
ISBN
9780631235903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.22

Paperback. Text with translation, commentary and notes. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DN; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685903
ISBN
9780856685903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.23

Paperback. Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him. He was a royal servant, who was indicted for rape. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 colour plate section, b&w integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099287483
ISBN
9780099287483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.28

Paperback. Offers a way to think about how the power of poetry, art, and the lyrical imagination illuminate history, trauma, and memory. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226254333
ISBN
9780226254333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.81

Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 163 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Michigan Classical Press United States
Number of pages
163
Condition
New
SKU
V9780979971303
ISBN
9780979971303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.42

Paperback. Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies a faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Translator(s): Cole, Peter. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 806.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691121956
ISBN
9780691121956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. Series: Greenwich Exchange Student Guides. Num Pages: 90 pages, chronology, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange
Number of pages
90
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871551273
ISBN
9781871551273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.55

Paperback. This volume features more than 30 newly commissioned essays by noted scholars writing on various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 534 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 246 x 25. Weight in Grams: 830.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Number of pages
534
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118451342
ISBN
9781118451342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.78

Hardback. Imagining Harmony explores the diverse roles that poetry played for eighteenth-century Japanese intellectuals as an embodiment of human emotion, a form of linguistic and philological training, and a means for accessing the ancient cultures that they turned to as the source of their political ideals. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761574
ISBN
9780804761574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.23

Paperback. This Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the features that have made him such an important point of reference for modern writers and their readers. Exploring and explaining The Divine Comedy, they also discuss his life and poetry as well as issues of truth, humanity, politics, and religion. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, Approx 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 175 x 165 x 12. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199684779
ISBN
9780199684779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801447082
ISBN
9780801447082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.83

Paperback. This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid. Series: Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 175 x 15. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521171540
ISBN
9780521171540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.63

Hardcover. This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid. Series: Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers. Num Pages: 334 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 256 x 21. Weight in Grams: 808.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521768665
ISBN
9780521768665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.33

Paperback. Approach places, times and states of mind in a mosaic of knowledge, invention, memory and entertainment with this collection of poems. The personal and the public interact in many poems and others address personal histories and their creative consequences, alongside mythological motifs. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 109.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857547528
ISBN
9781857547528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.42

Paperback. "Distant Reading" considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history of its origins. Its themes are connected by a historically contextualized and theoretically sophisticated discussion of contemporary American and British poets continuing to work in the modernist tradition Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817351519
ISBN
9780817351519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.59

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226290003
ISBN
9780226290003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.36

Paperback. A thoughtful and fascinating portrait of England, told through the story of A. E. Housman and his much-loved poetry collection, A Shropshire Lad. Num Pages: 624 pages, b/w pics. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMP; 2AB; DSC; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349140681
ISBN
9780349140681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Peter S. Field contends that Ralph Waldo Emerson was America's first democratic intellectual and a democrat in two senses: his writings are imbued with an optimistic, confident ethos; and, more importantly, he acted the part of the democrat by bringing culture to all Americans. Series: American Intellectual Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; GTB; JFCX; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847688432
ISBN
9780847688432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Paperback. For over seven centuries, Dante and his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, have held a special place in Western culture. The poem is at once a vivid journey through hell to heaven, a poignant love story, and a picture of humanity's relationship to God. It is so richly imaginative that a first reading can be bewildering. Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 200 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 186 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405130523
ISBN
9781405130523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.57

Hardback. This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancient Latin poets, in such Christian authorities as Augustine or Benedict, or in the "book of the world"-the globe traversed by pilgrims and navigators. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734929
ISBN
9780804734929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.27

Paperback. Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows would-be poets how to write better, how to write authentically, and how to say genuinely what is to be said. He illustrates his book with many useful examples, covering the areas of writing techniques and procedures and drafting. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; CFG; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 206. 128 pages. Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows would-be poets how to write better, how to write authentically, and how to say genuinely what is to be said. He illustrates his book with many useful examples, covering the areas of writing techniques and procedures and drafting. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: CBW; CFG; DSC. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight: 206.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852242046
ISBN
9781852242046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardback. The short, both tragic and happy life, of Julian Bell, poet, younger member of Bloomsbury, son of Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, from his birth in 1908 until his death in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774130
ISBN
9780804774130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.84

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