Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. Perceptive and darkly funny poetry from the Forward-prize-winning poet. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Edition
- Reprints
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330481953
- ISBN
- 9780330481953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.17
€ 11.99
€ 10.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801476709
- ISBN
- 9780801476709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.74
€ 34.99
€ 31.74
hardcover. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874137286
- ISBN
- 9780874137286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.24
€ 127.24
Hardback. Num Pages: 190 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press New York
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231075947
- ISBN
- 9780231075947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.85
€ 141.85
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691645896
- ISBN
- 9780691645896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.67
€ 198.67
Hardcover. Offers a collection of critical essays on the prize-winning contemporary British poet, Don Paterson. This book shows that Paterson is a figure who actively negotiates his place within literary history, as well as confronting that history with lyric grace, humour and directness. Editor(s): Pollard, Natalie. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669417
- ISBN
- 9780748669417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.48€ 107.33
€ 112.48
€ 107.33
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGU; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231162968
- ISBN
- 9780231162968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.85
€ 141.85
Paperback. This volume of poetry provides a collection of funeral poems, appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC; HRA; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146. Funeral Poems. 96 pages. This volume of poetry provides a collection of funeral poems, appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC; HRA; VFJX. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 7. Weight: 146.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852246358
- ISBN
- 9781852246358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.07
€ 16.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. Explores a new way to connect the primary Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata with their Greek analogues, the Iliad and Odyssey. This cross-cultural comparative study provides a more comprehensive perspective on the poems' religiosity than the vantage points of Hellenists or of Indologists alone. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 325 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2BBA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674726758
- ISBN
- 9780674726758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.54
€ 26.99
€ 23.54
Paperback. This volume includes a contemporary blank-verse translation of Dante's "Paradise," the third and final part of his "Divine Comedy," along with prose commentary. Translator(s): Torrens, S.James. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC; DSK; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780940866331
- ISBN
- 9780940866331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00
€ 19.00
Paperback. "Distant Reading" considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history of its origins. Its themes are connected by a historically contextualized and theoretically sophisticated discussion of contemporary American and British poets continuing to work in the modernist tradition Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817351519
- ISBN
- 9780817351519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.78
€ 35.78
paperback. This work provides an integral understanding of the political, philosophical and religious context of Dante's "Divine Comedy". Initially written in French in 1981, it brings to light the complexity of Dante's thought and art, and its relation to the central themes of Western civilization. Translator(s): LePain, Marc A. Series: Applications of Political Theory. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADT; 3H; DSBB; DSC; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034166
- ISBN
- 9780739103272
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.65
€ 5.65
Paperback. A tale that contains elements of a beast fable, an exemplum, a satire, and other genres. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268042356
- ISBN
- 9780268042356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.25
€ 42.99
€ 38.25
Paperback. The author connects the accidents of the poet Wordsworth's life with the originality of his works, tracking the impulses that turned him to poetry after the death of his parents and during his years as an enthusiastic disciple of the French Revolution. Bromwich argues that his political idealism deeply motivated his writings of the 1790s. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075570
- ISBN
- 9780226075570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.04
€ 41.04
Hardback. Argues that World War II blurred the boundaries between battleground and home front bringing women and civilians into war discourse. This book discusses the interplay of fascination and disapproval in the texts of twentieth-century war and the way in which homage to war hero and victim contends with revulsion at war's horror and waste. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119382
- ISBN
- 9780231119382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.76
€ 160.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.Signed and inscribed by the author
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KEX0280927
- ISBN
- 9781555974107
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Hardback. By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442645011
- ISBN
- 9781442645011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.91
€ 60.91
Paperback. In his play "Bacchae", Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. This book builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015972
- ISBN
- 9780691015972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.59
€ 105.59
Paperback. Marjorie Perloff explores and defends her belief in the power of close reading, a strategy often maligned as reactionary in today's critical climate but which, when construed "differentially," is vital, she believes, to any true understanding of a literary or poetic work. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817351281
- ISBN
- 9780817351281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.07
€ 42.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 204 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Univocal Publishing LLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937561680
- ISBN
- 9781937561680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.14
€ 26.99
€ 25.14
Paperback. Formerly "The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms", this updated version contains over 1600 entries on the devices, techniques, history, theory and terminology of poetry from the Classical period to the present. Num Pages: 480 pages, bibliography, references. BIC Classification: CBW; DSC; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of North Texas Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574411669
- ISBN
- 9781574411669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.31
€ 28.31
Paperback. Poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Featuring illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It also maps out the future for work in historical poetics and lyric theory. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119915
- ISBN
- 9780691119915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.31
€ 58.31
Paperback. Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised the author as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. In this title, she turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. She serves as a guide, considering the stylistic and imaginative features of the poems. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Gld
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066380
- ISBN
- 9780674066380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.93
€ 25.99
€ 25.93
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642260
- ISBN
- 9780691642260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.60
€ 110.60