Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. For the first time, the full canon of poetry from Scotland is available to readers in one volume. The Poetry of Scotland presents all the major, and many less well-known Scottish poets in a broad historical perspective from the fourteenth century to the present day. Num Pages: 752 pages, notes, glossaries. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AF; DC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 752
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748606078
- ISBN
- 9780748606078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.06
€ 41.99
€ 37.06
This study explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. It discusses major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - and also argues that their work was influenced by a host of minor and less studied writers. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; HRCL; HRCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199644506
- ISBN
- 9780199644506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 187.02
€ 187.02
paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, 18 Black and White Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New World Library
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781608681884
- ISBN
- 9781608681884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.58
€ 14.99
€ 12.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3JD; DSBD; DSC; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268027766
- ISBN
- 9780268027766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 38.81
€ 38.99
€ 38.81
hardcover. Throughout his long career, Paul Durcan has continued to make passionate and moving poetry out of his own and his country's misfortunes. He is by turns a surrealist, a mystic, an Irish comedian with perfect comic timing and an angry champion of the oppressed. This title presents his writings. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 39. Weight in Grams: 902. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Signed and affectionately inscribed on the title page. With launch invitation. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0031386
- ISBN
- 9781846550249
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 72.00
€ 72.00
hardcover. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Translator(s): Raeburn, David. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 888. Very good copy showing minor age and wear. Light discolouration to clothbound cover
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0026164
- ISBN
- 9780141394619
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.82
€ 4.82
Paperback. This work follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. The author uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Num Pages: 640 pages, 3 illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FKA; CFF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195144130
- ISBN
- 9780195144130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.59
€ 95.59
Multiple copy . This is the first complete edition of the poetry of Charles Cotton (1630-1687), one of the most interesting poets of the mid-seventeenth century, who wrote in many styles and many voices. Paul Hartle draws upon all of the available manuscripts and early printed editions, and unites the different components of Cotton's prolific output. Editor(s): Hartle, Paul. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 896
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198123507
- ISBN
- 9780198123507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 424.25
€ 424.25
Hardback. Milton in Translation demonstrates the breadth of John Milton's international reception, from the seventeenth century through today. New essays by an international roster of experts explore the translation of Milton's works into twenty-three languages, in essays that are grouped geographically and, by and large, chronologically. Editor(s): Duran, Angelica; Issa, Islam; Olson, Jonathan R. Num Pages: 528 pages, With 8 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198754824
- ISBN
- 9780198754824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.38
€ 192.38
Hardback. In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers of the Victorian era to expand the capacities of literary form. He explores the works of some of the era's most astute thinkers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198792451
- ISBN
- 9780198792451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.86
€ 160.86
Paperback. Editor(s): Rath, Akshaya. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; DSK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- OUP India India
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199465965
- ISBN
- 9780199465965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.35
€ 51.35
Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025226
- ISBN
- 9780674025226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.63
€ 42.63
Hardback. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633792
- ISBN
- 9780815633792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.84
€ 35.84
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 301 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 26 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137508379
- ISBN
- 9781137508379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.52
€ 148.52
Paperback. Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444632
- ISBN
- 9781349444632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.10
€ 65.10
Paperback. Takes a particular perspective on the nature of poetry and follows this through to proposals for teaching. This book focuses attention on how the use of language in short poems can set up conditions for individual interpretation and the representation of reality in ways other than those which are established by normal social convention. Series: Oxford Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSC; ESB; JNU. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780194371841
- ISBN
- 9780194371841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.75
€ 76.75
Paperback. A Preface to Paradise Lost provides an interpretation of Milton's purpose in writing the epic. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition(PB)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195003451
- ISBN
- 9780195003451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.11
€ 69.11
Paperback. These essays lead the reader into the political and intellectual worlds within which John Milton wrote his verse and prose, and into the later worlds within which his reputation evolved and fluctuated. The illuminating and entertaining range of perspectives will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike. Editor(s): Hammond, Paul; Worden, Blair. Series: British Academy Original Paperbacks. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197264706
- ISBN
- 9780197264706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.40
€ 45.40
Paperback. The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examines the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced. It explores technical matters of style, language, and metre, the poet's use of sources and subtexts, and the reception of his work amongst editors, critics, writers, and visual artists. Editor(s): McCabe, Richard A. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 852 pages, 23 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 173 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198709671
- ISBN
- 9780198709671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.08
€ 77.08
Hardcover. Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time draws on new archival research to suggest ways in which MacNeice's poetry is closely linked to contemporaneous developments in Irish literature and culture. Series: Oxford English Monographs. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198745150
- ISBN
- 9780198745150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.89
€ 172.89
Multiple copy . A fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence. This young phenomenon-author, statesman, courtier, poet, and soldier-exchanged letters with some of the age's most influential figures. Includes general and textual introductions, biographical sketches, and notes. Editor(s): Kuin, Roger. Num Pages: 1464 pages, Frontispiece to each volume; 20 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBD; DSC; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 240 x 118. Weight in Grams: 2566.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199558223
- ISBN
- 9780199558223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 702.98
€ 702.98
Hardback. The book is an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays on one of the greatest of all English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It covers a wide range of topics, exploring Shelley's life and work from various angles. Editor(s): O'Neill, Michael; Howe, Anthony. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 733 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 179 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 733
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199558360
- ISBN
- 9780199558360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.05
€ 241.05
Hardback. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years. Editor(s): Brearton, Fran; Gillis, Alan A. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 744 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 744
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199561247
- ISBN
- 9780199561247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 224.17
€ 224.17
T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature provides a comprehensive discussion of the engagement of Eliot with that earlier English literary period which he declared to be his favourite. It offers a full sense of the critical and literary context against which Eliot measured his own ideas on Early Modern poets and playwrights. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199574773
- ISBN
- 9780199574773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.86
€ 160.86