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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Hardback. More than 30 new essays from an international cast of specialists reflect the most recent developments in Ovidian scholarship. Written in an accessible and lively style, the essays represent a wide range of critical methodologies and approaches to Ovid's literary oeuvre. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 534 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 173 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1126.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 534
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405141833
- ISBN
- 9781405141833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 273.48
€ 273.48
Hardback. The first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, this book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136426
- ISBN
- 9781405136426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99
€ 43.99
Paperback. For over seven centuries, Dante and his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, have held a special place in Western culture. The poem is at once a vivid journey through hell to heaven, a poignant love story, and a picture of humanity's relationship to God. It is so richly imaginative that a first reading can be bewildering. Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 200 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 186 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405130523
- ISBN
- 9781405130523
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Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Hardback. This concise companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Editor(s): Blanton, C. D.; Alderman, Nigel. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 231 x 31. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405129244
- ISBN
- 9781405129244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.87
€ 122.87
Hardcover. * An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry. Series: How to Study Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405124799
- ISBN
- 9781405124799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.50
€ 116.50
Paperback. Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. * Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405121071
- ISBN
- 9781405121071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
Hardcover. Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. * Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405121064
- ISBN
- 9781405121064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.50
€ 116.50
Paperback. This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly. * Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Fredman, Stephen. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405120036
- ISBN
- 9781405120036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.96
€ 48.96
Hardcover. Gives readers a sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life. This book helps readers to appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Fredman, Stephen. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405120029
- ISBN
- 9781405120029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.43
€ 139.43
Hardcover. Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405118897
- ISBN
- 9781405118897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.32
€ 120.32
Paperback. This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works. ? An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman. ? Weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works. ? Focuses especially on Whitman's evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405118187
- ISBN
- 9781405118187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.59
€ 42.59
Paperback. * Winner of the Milton Society of Americaa s Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. * Invites readers to explore and enjoy Miltona s rich and fascinating work. * Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Miltona s texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar. Editor(s): Corns, Thomas N. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 544 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 256 x 29. Weight in Grams: 988.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113700
- ISBN
- 9781405113700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.89
€ 57.89
Paperback. Acknowledges the impact of early grief on Wordsworth's poetry and integrates it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813. This title explains the importance of the poet's great, unfinished epic "The Recluse" to his work as a whole. It includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113694
- ISBN
- 9781405113694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.08
€ 68.08
Paperback. In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history. This companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. It offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Editor(s): Roberts, Neil. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 648 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1038.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113618
- ISBN
- 9781405113618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.89
€ 57.89
Hardcover. Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Brings together original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets. Editor(s): Gerrard, Christine. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 624 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1214.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113168
- ISBN
- 9781405113168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 222.25
€ 222.25
Paperback. John Milton's many and various works include magnificent poems, polemics, history, theology, and treatises on political, ecclesiastical, educational, and social issues. This title provides analysis of his prose and poetry, focusing on the development of his ideas and his art. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 816 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 816
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405106252
- ISBN
- 9781405106252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.60
€ 56.60
Paperback. Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton s great epic Paradise Lost, a work of literature which has compelled and fascinated readers down the ages and which offers enduring insight into the human condition. Series: Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 6. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118918180
- ISBN
- 9781118918180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.86
€ 29.86
Paperback. A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118795354
- ISBN
- 9781118795354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.32
€ 41.32
Hardcover. A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Num Pages: 542 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 171 x 23. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118795347
- ISBN
- 9781118795347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.11
€ 96.11
Paperback. A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays by an international team of renowned scholars. Topics covered include Vergil's handling of sources; the history of Vergil reception in literature; and the enduring influence of Vergilian themes in prose, music, and art. Editor(s): Farrell, Joseph; Putnam, Michael C. J. Num Pages: 584 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 174 x 246 x 27. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118785126
- ISBN
- 9781118785126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51
Paperback. Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Series: Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118773000
- ISBN
- 9781118773000
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Condition: New
€ 45.14
€ 45.14
Paperback. Dante's Deadly Sins is a unique study of the moral philosophy behind Dante's master work that considers the Commedia as he intended, namely, as a practical guide to moral betterment. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118720417
- ISBN
- 9781118720417
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Condition: New
€ 40.05
€ 40.05
Paperback. A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces a new generation of readers and educators to Eliot and covers the full breadth of his literary career. Chapters explore the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyze his body of work, and assess his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical. Editor(s): Chinitz, David E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118647097
- ISBN
- 9781118647097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51
Paperback. This concise companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Editor(s): Alderman, Nigel; Blanton, C. D. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118646946
- ISBN
- 9781118646946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.79
€ 54.79