Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
hardcover. Combining encyclopedic information as well as a critical guide to the poetry of Robert Burns, this work attempts to show the complex nature of this supposedly uncomplicated poet. The work is in six sections and covers such themes as religion, drink, drama, sex, politics and philosophy. Series: Literary Companions. Num Pages: 461 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 461
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1991st Edition
- SKU
- V9780333422700
- ISBN
- 9780333422700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.12
€ 196.12
hardcover. A collection of essays by scholars of romantic literature which aim to situate Shelley for our own age, not only by contextualizing him within our scene of critical practice, but also by resituating him within his own scene of poetic production. Editor(s): Blank, G. Kim. Series: Studies in romanticism. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1991st Edition
- SKU
- V9780333443316
- ISBN
- 9780333443316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.50
€ 194.50
Hardback. In this account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece the author draws on recent research about the poet and his age. It includes a discussion of Shelley's social background, politics and response to rationalism. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333447048
- ISBN
- 9780333447048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Paperback. In this account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, the author draws on recent research about the poet and his age. It includes a discussion of Shelley's social background, politics and response to rationalism. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 169 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333447055
- ISBN
- 9780333447055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
Paperback. Part of a series which offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors. This volume looks at T.S.Eliot and traces the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped his writing. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333452783
- ISBN
- 9780333452783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.16
€ 60.16
Hardback. Dryden's career is addressed chronologically and thematically. The book takes issue with those who impugned Dryden's integrity, and argues that he was a sincere, if sceptical, writer whose main subjects were the abuse of political power, the difficulties of sexuality and the pursuit of freedom. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333453797
- ISBN
- 9780333453797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.71
€ 193.71
Hardback. Revised or expanded lectures given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley. The poems are placed in the context of their intellectual background and related to the writing of other poets. Editor(s): Collins, Philip. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333457900
- ISBN
- 9780333457900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.75
€ 193.75
Hardback. The presentation of Tennyson's personal and poetic development is supplemented by an introduction, brief biographical sketches of more than 30 of his friends, and maps of relevant areas in Lincolnshire and the Isle of Wight. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333460207
- ISBN
- 9780333460207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardcover. This chronological account of the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is built up from contemporary documents including the letters and journals of the writer and of his family and friends. Maps, a family tree and an index are included along with over 50 biographical sketches of the Coleridge circle. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333460214
- ISBN
- 9780333460214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.57
€ 127.57
Hardback. This volume, with contributions in the form of narrations, or of work sheets, by leading British and American translators, shows what happens: how problems present themselves and how they are resolved. Editor(s): Weissbort, Daniel. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333460566
- ISBN
- 9780333460566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.29
€ 194.29
Hardback. The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333464977
- ISBN
- 9780333464977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardback. A study of Shelley's poetry, approaching it from the viewpoint of contemporary Jungian analytical psychology that incorporates the theories of Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott. Material that relates to the earliest stages of the ego's development - to the pre-Oedipal situation - are used. Series: Studies in romanticism. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JMAF; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333482957
- ISBN
- 9780333482957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Paperback. A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work. Num Pages: 400 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333486559
- ISBN
- 9780333486559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Paperback. This critical study is based on research into all Owen's surviving papers and books and discusses the significance for his poetry of many little known elements in his life. Hibberd views his war poetry as the culmination rather than the rejection of his allegiance to Romanticism. Series: Studies in twentieth-century literature. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333491041
- ISBN
- 9780333491041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.43
€ 61.43
Hardback. Part of the "Macmillan Studies in Romanticism" series, this book looks at the influence of his journey to Italy on Shelley's work. Series: Studies in Romanticism S. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333497623
- ISBN
- 9780333497623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.22
€ 195.22
Hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333510698
- ISBN
- 9780333510698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. Explores the process involved in reading William Blake's poems. The poems include, on the same pages, verbal and visual texts that often seem to be at odds with one another or even, at times, to be entirely unrelated. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333524848
- ISBN
- 9780333524848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.99
€ 193.99
Paperback. This collection of essays looks at the developments in British poetry from the Movement until the present. The introduction not only provides a context for these changes but also argues that poetry criticism has been debilitated by the quest for political respectability. Editor(s): Day, Gary E.; Docherty, Brian. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333532812
- ISBN
- 9780333532812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Paperback. A collection of specially commissioned essays in which leading scholars and critics define the American modernist canon. Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, this radical poetry is inspired by the concept of democracy and extends across American from east to west. Editor(s): Bloom, Clive; Docherty, Brian. Series: Insights Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333532898
- ISBN
- 9780333532898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardback. Attempts to map out in detail all of the known facts concerning the poet Edmund Spenser, a major canonical author whose entire literary career was spent in Ireland. The book charts Spenser's parallel vocations of Elizabethan planter and Renaissance writer Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; BG; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333537442
- ISBN
- 9780333537442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.94
€ 126.94