Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. Exploring Eliot's poetry, drama and essays in relation to his life in America and England, and to four quite different women who offer clues to his guarded character, this book sees his life and work as reciprocal parts of one design, the search for faith. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844088935
- ISBN
- 9781844088935
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.94
€ 19.99
€ 15.94
Paperback. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations. Editor(s): Vilain, Robert. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan; Sutherland, Marielle. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199569410
- ISBN
- 9780199569410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Hardback. Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics that takes its starting point in the two Buddhist concepts of emptiness (J. ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval understanding of poetry, and examines their affinity with contemporary Western theory, particularly Derridean differance and deconstruction. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1F; DSC; GTB; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748889
- ISBN
- 9780804748889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.89
€ 81.89
Hardcover. The third and final volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed biography examines Pound's final years, which saw much personal tragedy for Pound at a tragic point in World history. Num Pages: 680 pages, 24-page plate section. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 169 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1206.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198704362
- ISBN
- 9780198704362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.69
€ 47.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 90 pages, 8 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910170298
- ISBN
- 9781910170298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.34
€ 10.34
Paperback. Statius' 'Achilleid' is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. In relating this story, Statius explores the nature of gender and the limits of the epic genre, while playfully positioning himself in the epic - and wider - poetic tradition. Editor(s): Dilke, O.A.W. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 188 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904675112
- ISBN
- 9781904675112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.50
€ 32.50
Hardback. Features letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Hodgson - that shows the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; BJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1230.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316328
- ISBN
- 9780571316328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 41.25
€ 59.42
€ 41.25
Paperback. 'Oxford Student Texts' provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Up-to-date to meet today's curriculum requirements for post-16 study, this series is designed to motivate and encourage students working on these challenging writers for the first time. Editor(s): Gill, Richard. Series Editor(s): Lee, Victor. Num Pages: 192 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (XS) Student text. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198325758
- ISBN
- 9780198325758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.73
€ 19.73
Paperback. Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon. Editor(s): O'Neill, Michael; Mahoney, Charles. Series: Blackwell Annotated Anthologies. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 29. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631213178
- ISBN
- 9780631213178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 49.18
€ 50.99
€ 49.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Commune Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934639153
- ISBN
- 9781934639153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.70
€ 17.99
€ 15.70
Hardcover. Homer Vol. II. Iliad (Books XIII-XXIV) Editor(s): Allen, T. W. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1920
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198145295
- ISBN
- 9780198145295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.95
€ 84.95
Hardback. This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics. Editor(s): Lyall, Scott; Palmer McCulloch, Dr. Margery. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641901
- ISBN
- 9780748641901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 91.90
€ 95.07
€ 91.90
Paperback. Series: The Press UWI biography series. Num Pages: 120 pages, 1 facsim., 1 map, 1 plan, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; BG; DSBH; DSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9789766400347
- ISBN
- 9789766400347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Contains all of the poetry that the author chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems. This book also supplies an illuminating introduction, and succinctly helpful apparatus. It tact are themselves a moving tribute, restoring to view one of the distinctive bodies of work in twentieth-century English poetry. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571295340
- ISBN
- 9780571295340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.51
€ 19.99
€ 14.51
Paperback. "The Iliad" is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced. Poets and thinkers in the West have pored over, retold and argued about the events described in this martial epic, even when direct knowledge of it was lost. This book is about what "The Iliad" is about and what "The Iliad" says of war. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571234301
- ISBN
- 9780571234301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.03
€ 17.99
€ 16.03
Hardcover. The biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. Exploration of the generation of poets anthologized in A. Alvarez's classic The New Poetry - Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381632
- ISBN
- 9781781381632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.15
€ 60.15
Paperback. Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. This is the fullest collection of Mallarme's poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Poesies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. It includes all the prose poems and the unique, unclassifiable Un Coup de des.. (A Dice Throw..) Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537921
- ISBN
- 9780199537921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.68
€ 16.99
€ 12.68
Paperback. Contains Milton's English poems, with the exception of "Paradise Lost", together with translations and texts of his Latin, Italian and Greek poems. This work presents extensive notes and headnotes to show Milton's allusions and synthesize the judgements and disagreements of a bewildering array of modern critics. Editor(s): Carey, John. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 30. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 552
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405832793
- ISBN
- 9781405832793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.03
€ 51.03
Paperback. Editor(s): Godwin, John. Series: Latin Texts. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472508508
- ISBN
- 9781472508508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.52
€ 25.99
€ 22.52
Paperback. A multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua. Her work has challenged and expanded previous views in American Studies, composition studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, literary studies, critical pedagogy, and queer theory. Num Pages: 281 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC; JFC; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605930
- ISBN
- 9780230605930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 133.88
€ 133.88
Paperback. In this sequel to his Romantic Consciousness, John Beer discusses further questionings of human consciousness; both the degree to which Dickens's conscious dramatizing differs from the subconscious workings of his psyche and the exploration of subliminal consciousness by nineteenth-century psychical researchers. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349509751
- ISBN
- 9781349509751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.70
€ 64.70
Hardback. The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 390 x 37. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674737877
- ISBN
- 9780674737877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.07
€ 40.99
€ 34.07
Paperback. One of the finest British poets of this century, Roy Fuller was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the C.B.E., and was elected to the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. The achievements of the late poet, novelist, critic and autobiographer are honoured here in essays and poems by writers who were his friends. Editor(s): Tolley, A.T. Num Pages: 137 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230. . Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Biography - Novelists, Poets & Playwrights - Poets,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Poetry & Poets,Subjects - Biography"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Carleton University Press,Canada U.S.A.
- Number of pages
- 137
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- SKU
- KHS0038618
- ISBN
- 9780886292102
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 19.99€ 17.52
€ 19.99
€ 17.52
Paperback. This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Publisher
- Faber Faber Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571170357
- ISBN
- 9780571170357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.53
€ 15.99
€ 11.53