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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. Examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. This title focuses on the books: "The Rock", "Ariel", "Day by Day", "Geography III" and "A Scattering of Salts". Series: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145341
ISBN
9780691145341
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 551.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403937063
ISBN
9781403937063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932589351
ISBN
9781932589351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.66

Hardcover. This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608368
ISBN
9780230608368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

paperback. This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Editor(s): Graham, Shane; Walters, J. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287499
ISBN
9781349287499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Paperback. This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914. It is exploratory and original in approach, stressing the philosophical and cultural implications in a range of texts from Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Thomas. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349461028
ISBN
9781349461028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.19

Hardback. Series: New Criterion Series. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 245.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566638395
ISBN
9781566638395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.49

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 366 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648729
ISBN
9780691648729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.55

Paperback. This colloquium volume celebrates an Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century BCE poet Posidippus. Included in this collection are an unusual collection of voices and perspectives - papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary and aesthetic. Editor(s): Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin; Baumbach, Manuel; Kosmetatou, Elizabeth. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674011052
ISBN
9780674011052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.62

Hardback. Offering a comprehensive history of the work's reception, the author reveals the ideological and aesthetic issues shaping criticism over the centuries as the audience for classical Japanese literature expanded beyond the aristocracy. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073357
ISBN
9780674073357
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.83

Paperback. A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses. Editor(s): Gallagher, L.; Raman, S. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349324934
ISBN
9781349324934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801449734
ISBN
9780801449734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback. Readers will find that the book remains recognizably Klaeber's work, but with altered and added features designed to render it as useful today as it has ever been. Editor(s): Fulk, R. D.; Bjork, Robert E.; Niles, John D. Series: Toronto Old English Studies. Num Pages: 704 pages, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 986.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New ed of 4th revised ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802095671
ISBN
9780802095671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.00

Paperback. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349100354
ISBN
9781349100354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.66

Hardback. This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530394
ISBN
9781557530394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.87

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025929
ISBN
9780674025929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.41

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691651545
ISBN
9780691651545
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.35

Paperback. Keith Douglas (1920-1944) began writing when he was at school at Christ's Hospital School, London, continued at Oxford, and thereafter in the army and in the Middle East. This title presents a selection of his work. Editor(s): Hughes, Ted. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 120 x 6. Weight in Grams: 56.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571230389
ISBN
9780571230389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Hardcover. This text is a contribution to critical debates on Keats as one of the "Cockney" school of poets. Ayumi Mizukoshi argues that Keats as a poet of "aesthetic pleasure" by placing him in historical context of bourgeois consumer revolution. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333929582
ISBN
9780333929582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.33

Hardback. This chronology uses Keats' letters to indicate his poetic aims and achievements. This is supplemented by an introduction and sketches of more than 30 important figures in the poet's life. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333552728
ISBN
9780333552728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.59

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