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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardcover. It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is the most popular poet in the United States. The main key to Rumi's success is the spiritual appeal of his work. It combines lyrical beauty with philosophical profundity, a sense of rapture and an acute awareness of human suffering in ways which speak directly to contemporary audiences. Editor(s): Washington, Peter. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 116 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841597690
ISBN
9781841597690
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.48

Hardcover. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to the bitter comedy of political chaos, this collection of poems covering two centuries includes work by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Annensky,Mayakovsky, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Brodsky and others less celebrated but no less extraordinary. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841597805
ISBN
9781841597805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Translator(s): Macmillan, Peter. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 248 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141392578
ISBN
9780141392578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.29

Paperback. Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. This title provides information on each of Petrarch's works, its place in the poet's oeuvre, and an exposition of its defining features. Editor(s): Kirkham, Victoria; Maggi, Armando. Num Pages: 568 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 754.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
568
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226437422
ISBN
9780226437422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.57

Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001792
ISBN
9780140285376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0021016
ISBN
9780140285376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
426
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521775281
ISBN
9780521775281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.65

Hardback. Revised or expanded lectures given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley. The poems are placed in the context of their intellectual background and related to the writing of other poets. Editor(s): Collins, Philip. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333457900
ISBN
9780333457900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.75

Paperback. Editor(s): Collins, Philip. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1992
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349223732
ISBN
9781349223732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 192.82

Paperback. This clear introduction explains technical terms such as iambic pentameter and syllabics, defines verse metres such as blank and free verse and illustrates a variety of forms, from the sonnet to freer modes favoured by contemporary writers. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 212 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; GBC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415087971
ISBN
9780415087971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. Brings together Philip Larkin's poems. In this book, due prominence is given to the poet's comments on his poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem, or state what he was trying to achieve. Editor(s): Burnett, Archie. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 894.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571240074
ISBN
9780571240074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.34

Paperback. Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a 'foreigner'. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition. Num Pages: 278 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; BGL; DSC; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898485
ISBN
9780859898485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.96

Hardback. Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a 'foreigner'. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition. Num Pages: 278 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; BGL; DSC; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898478
ISBN
9780859898478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.84

Paperback. Described, variously, as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll, Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. This book demonstrates how Horses transformed the possibilities of both poetry and rock music. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 122 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826427922
ISBN
9780826427922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.74

Hardback. It will interest English-language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature. Translator(s): Curley, Michael J.; Rendall, Steven. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 568 pages, 14, 12 black & white line drawings, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 904.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411248
ISBN
9781421411248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.87
€ 76.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 204 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Univocal Publishing LLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9781937561680
ISBN
9781937561680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. This analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Translator(s): Tarnowski, Andrea. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734271
ISBN
9780804734271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. Editor(s): Mallett, Phillip. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403901316
ISBN
9781403901316
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSC; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633480
ISBN
9780691633480
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.96

Paperback. 'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 144 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582414655
ISBN
9780582414655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.41

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