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Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
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€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
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€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry 'at work' in poems Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719088506
- ISBN
- 9780719088506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 156.29
€ 156.29
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
€ 30.26
€ 30.26
Paperback. The main aim of this text is to advance a method devised through experience of teaching Chaucer's poetry over many years. The method is explained in the introduction, and its underlying objective is a shared experience of reading, and of trying to understand the "Canterbury Tales". Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780582013193
- ISBN
- 9780582013193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
hardcover. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- SKU
- V9781403967619
- ISBN
- 9781403967619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
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€ 35.66
€ 40.99
€ 35.66
Hardback. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312212872
- ISBN
- 9780312212872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
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
€ 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
€ 81.95
€ 81.95
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
€ 11.99€ 10.87
€ 11.99
€ 10.87
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
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
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
€ 34.92
€ 34.92
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
€ 94.88
€ 94.88
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€ 19.48
€ 23.99
€ 19.48
Paperback. Series: Contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349092192
- ISBN
- 9781349092192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.10
€ 127.10
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€ 40.43
€ 51.99
€ 40.43
paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349512126
- ISBN
- 9781349512126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Hardcover. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403968494
- ISBN
- 9781403968494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
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€ 15.10
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
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
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
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
€ 34.87
€ 34.87
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
€ 181.62
€ 181.62
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
€ 17.99
€ 14.33