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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Results 1961 - 1962 of 1962
Literary studies: poetry & poets
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
€ 193.63
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
€ 40.99
€ 34.17
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
€ 15.99
€ 11.57
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
€ 27.04
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
€ 130.24
€ 130.24
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813564654
- ISBN
- 9780813564654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Paperback. Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This study of Howl elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246775
- ISBN
- 9780520246775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.31
€ 31.99
€ 23.31
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906841034
- ISBN
- 9781906841034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.04
€ 16.99
€ 16.04
Hardback. This neglected Greek satire is now available in English. Basing their translation on two critical editions of the 14th-century anonymous poem, Nicholas and Baloglou reveal the full texture of this unique genre of the Byzantine period. The authors provide analysis on form, style and context. Translator(s): Nicholas, Nick; Baloglou, George. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 576 pages, 39 illus. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 175 x 31. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231127608
- ISBN
- 9780231127608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.96€ 90.75
€ 118.96
€ 90.75
Paperback. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 170 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- The University Press Group Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691013602
- ISBN
- 9780691013602
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
paperback. Covers different varieties of poetic practice in English. This book discusses the work of poets as wide ranging as W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and Blake. Num Pages: 144 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141004396
- ISBN
- 9780141004396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. An overview of Chaucer's work, focusing on the most canonical texts, such as Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, while also providing some analysis of his minor works. Series: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813060965
- ISBN
- 9780813060965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.98
€ 29.98
Paperback. The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is regarded as one of the great literatures of the world. This volume introduces readers to that literature, offering at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500) of "Japanese Court Poetry" (1901). (Poetry) Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804706360
- ISBN
- 9780804706360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ryan, Donald P (Pacific Lutheran University USA). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774167836
- ISBN
- 9789774167836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.01
€ 23.01
Hardback. Ancient epics remain a fount of inspiration for poets, dramatists, and musicians not only because they tell good stories in an aesthetically beautiful way, but also because they speak to contemporary hearts and minds still wrestling with timeless issues of human limitation, passion, violence, and uses and abuses of power. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405159470
- ISBN
- 9781405159470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.21
€ 101.21
Paperback. Collects Willis Barnstone's translations of Greek lyric poetry - including the most complete Sappho in English. This book includes a representative sampling of significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. Translator(s): Barnstone, Willis. Num Pages: 376 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DC; DSC; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221216
- ISBN
- 9780253221216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.63
€ 27.99
€ 26.63
The work is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. It invites Marvell readers to view the poet and some of his representative lyrics in the context of the anthropological concept of liminality and the in-between aspects of experience. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611494105
- ISBN
- 9781611494105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.50
€ 137.50
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1942
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231087704
- ISBN
- 9780231087704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.40
€ 129.40
Hardback. Scholars of British literature and women writers will welcome this important study of one of the eighteenth century's foremost writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404585
- ISBN
- 9781421404585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.24€ 59.06
€ 64.24
€ 59.06
Paperback. Life of the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millions Num Pages: 352 pages, 20, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753820643
- ISBN
- 9780753820643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33