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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Paperback. A collection of specially commissioned essays in which leading scholars and critics define the American modernist canon. Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, this radical poetry is inspired by the concept of democracy and extends across American from east to west. Editor(s): Bloom, Clive; Docherty, Brian. Series: Insights Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333532898
ISBN
9780333532898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Hardcover. Editor(s): Yuejun, Zhang; Christie, Stuart. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230391710
ISBN
9780230391710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Paperback. Editor(s): Christie, S. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349351725
ISBN
9781349351725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813564654
ISBN
9780813564654
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.16

Hardcover. Contributes to the interdisciplinary theory of 'word and image', and the history of the relationships between 'sister arts'. This title offers a fresh perspective of traditional Western art form as reflected in the eyes of a Hebrew survivor of twentieth-century Holocaust atrocities. Num Pages: 197 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSBH; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845194505
ISBN
9781845194505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.58

Paperback. The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism. Editor(s): Jones, Eldred Durosimi. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
James Currey
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011190
ISBN
9781847011190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.04

Paperback. Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF; CFG; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349313013
ISBN
9781349313013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.46

paperback. Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a poet-teacher father and Russian emigre mother. When "Howl and Other Poems" was impounded by San Francisco customs in 1956, the subsequent trial for obscenity catapulted Ginsberg and his publisher City Lights to national fame and helped to define the Beat Generation. Editor(s): Ford, Mark. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 120 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571238101
ISBN
9780571238101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.57

Paperback. Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349533015
ISBN
9781349533015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. As a didactic explanation of pagan ancient Greek culture to Orthodox Christians, John Tzetzes's Allegories of the Iliad is deeply rooted in the mid-twelfth-century circumstances of the cosmopolitan Comnenian court. As a critical reworking of the Iliad, it is part of the millennia-long global tradition of Homeric adaptation. Num Pages: 601 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 210 x 37. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674967854
ISBN
9780674967854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.17

Hardback. This work lists and highlights the over 2200 names and close to 250 similes referred to in each book of Milton's "Paradise Lost". Divided into three sections, it offers readers a comprehensive overview of the names and similes, including the number and percentages for each type of name and simile. Num Pages: 480 pages, index, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 803.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810843042
ISBN
9780810843042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.63

Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry. Editor(s): Maxwell, Catherine; Evangelista, Stefano. Num Pages: 252 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 175 x 25. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719086250
ISBN
9780719086250
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.40

Paperback. One of the great Victorian poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems Editor(s): Baron, Michael. Series: Everyman Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128. One of the great Victorian poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems Editor(s): Baron, Michael. Series: Everyman Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
W&N
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0007230
ISBN
9780460878029
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Mick Imlah selects Tennyson. Editor(s): Imlah, Mick. Series: Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 119 x 7. Weight in Grams: 72.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
9780571207008
ISBN
9780571207008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 5.50

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780746309193
ISBN
9780746309193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.99

Paperback. Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748641345
ISBN
9780748641345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780748641352
ISBN
9780748641352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.23
€ 81.20

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 914.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641942
ISBN
9780691641942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 213.90

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648309
ISBN
9780691648309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.46

Paperback. Part of a series which follows the outline of writers' working lives, aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. This is a sympathetic portrait of the poet who overcame the obscurity of his origins to become the uncrowned Laureate of his age. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333426913
ISBN
9780333426913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.09

Paperback. A series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions expressed in prefaces, offers insights into the poets' own work as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets of literature. Editor(s): Fuller, John. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 121 x 10. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
9780571230709
ISBN
9780571230709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Partheneion, or "maiden song," composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. This book excavates the poem's invocations of widespread and long-lived cosmological ideas that cast the universe as perfectly harmonious and invested its workings with an ethical dimension. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 20. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226668680
ISBN
9780226668680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
PM Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604865905
ISBN
9781604865905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.25

Hardcover. This exhaustive and enthralling study considers the life and work of al-Mutanabbi (915-965), often regarded as the greatest of the classical Arab poets. Series: Makers of the Muslim World. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 3F; BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851684069
ISBN
9781851684069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.02

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