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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. Editor(s): Nelson, William. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410. "On cover: English Institute essays. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" p. [169]-180. Commissioning organisation: edited with a foreword by William Nelson. x, 188 p. 21 cm. Original boards. Good copy in dulled and slightly edge worn blue covers." Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Poetry & Poets,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - General,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Critici"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
204
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1961
SKU
KEX0049771
ISBN
9780231025027
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 13.99
€ 4.99

Hardback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691629759
ISBN
9780691629759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.03

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691651514
ISBN
9780691651514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.43

Paperback. A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their art Editor(s): Hall, Donald. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472063086
ISBN
9780472063086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.46

Paperback. An anthology that celebrates the city of London. This book contains themes including, 'The Weather in the Streets', 'The Poor and the Rich', 'The Countryman in Town', 'The Recent Wars' and 'London Transport'. Illustrator(s): Pittaway, Neil. Editor(s): Adams, Anna. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; DC; DQ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 122 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Edition
illustrated edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900564038
ISBN
9781900564038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.32

Hardcover. Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) is best known today for his Italian poetry, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. This book illuminates Petrarch's love of classical culture, his devout Christianity, his public celebrity, and his struggle for inner peace. Editor(s): Kirkham, Victoria; Maggi, Armando. Num Pages: 576 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 898.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226437415
ISBN
9780226437415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.76
€ 78.73

Paperback. Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 159.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472051472
ISBN
9780472051472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.59

Paperback. The cultural phenomenon known as slam poetry was born years ago in white working-class Chicago barrooms. This title looks at slam, shedding light on the relationships that slam poets build with their audiences through race and identity performance, and revealing how poets come to celebrate the politics of difference in American culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472050598
ISBN
9780472050598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.20

Paperback. The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Series: Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 halftones, 2 figs., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2BMU; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469626772
ISBN
9781469626772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.50

paperback. H.D. called By Avon River "the first book that really made me happy." In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.'s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that would dominate her later works. Editor(s): Vetter, Lara. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813062372
ISBN
9780813062372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.80

Paperback. In these essays, Bruce Bond interrogates the commonly accepted notion that all poetry since modernism tends toward one of two traditions: that of a more architectural sensibility with its resistance to metaphysics, and that of a latter-day Romantic sensibility, which finds its authority in a metaphysics authenticated by the individual imagination. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472052837
ISBN
9780472052837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.76

Paperback. An American poet takes onEastern philosophy, Western culture, and his Muslim heritage" Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472051274
ISBN
9780472051274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.58

Hardcover. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; BG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9789622014084
ISBN
9789622014084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.02

Hardcover. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Chinese University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9789629964672
ISBN
9789629964672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.53

paperback. This is a thorough but extremely readable critical look at one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century, W.B. Yeats. Num Pages: 384 pages, frontispiece, halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 443.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780195113914
ISBN
9780195113914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.78

Paperback. A guide to the increasingly allusive and complex Peppercanister poems. All the poems are discussed in chronological order and are accompanied by illustrations and reproductions of covers, which are fully explained in the text. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900621533
ISBN
9781900621533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.48

Paperback. Series: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813061917
ISBN
9780813061917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.28

Paperback. In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet , John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's lesser known but no less brilliant works. Series: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813049588
ISBN
9780813049588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, d. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813007205
ISBN
9780813007205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.28

Paperback. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature. This work introduces the poet. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 119 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571259472
ISBN
9780571259472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.90

Paperback. In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton blossomed into a world-famous poet. Orne audiotaped her last years of therapy and it is these tapes which are the focus of this book. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; MMJT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415887472
ISBN
9780415887472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.00

paperback. A collection of important scholarly articles on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its readers of the validity of the rationalist theories of Epicurus. An Introduction contextualizes the essays, and all Greek and Latin is translated. Editor(s): Gale, Monica R. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A. United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199260355
ISBN
9780199260355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 91.79

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 248 pages, 33. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADS; 3JB; ACND; DSBD; DSC; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647558
ISBN
9781442647558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.50

The work explores the ways in which providentialism infiltrates various kinds of discourse, ranging from military to medical, and from political to philosophical. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 686.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643420
ISBN
9781442643420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.23

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