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Paperback. Presents the text of Chapman's translation of the "Odyssey" (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. This book also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the "Odyssey". Editor(s): Nicoll, Allardyce. Translator(s): Chapman, George. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 732.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
524
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691048918
ISBN
9780691048918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.60

Paperback. Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable. Translator(s): Chapman, George. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 976 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 54. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
976
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1ST
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840221176
ISBN
9781840221176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.90

Paperback. George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the "Iliad", making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. It also provides an introduction and a glossary. Editor(s): Nicoll, Allardyce. Translator(s): Chapman, George. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 648 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DN; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 232 x 34. Weight in Grams: 822.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
1st Princeton pbk. ed
Number of pages
741
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691002361
ISBN
9780691002361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.47

paperback. In the kaleidoscope that is Lionel Abrahams, we find poet and wit, lover and critic, a voice speaking to us - especially to poets - with an inspirational clarity. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Jacana Media South Africa
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781770090972
ISBN
9781770090972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.41

Paperback. Contains the poems of legendary Dada poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) that encompass the full range of Tzara's works. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 9. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Black Widow Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780976844907
ISBN
9780976844907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.74

paperback. This collection is comprised mainly of new works, previously unpublished by Edward Lucie-Smith, as well as his most-anthologized poem, "The Lesson". Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Edition
Revised
SKU
V9781857545494
ISBN
9781857545494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.14

Paperback. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously reinvents the history of American Indian literature and American poetry by uncovering a vast but forgotten archive of early American Indian poems. The book includes work by 82 writers and a full bibliography of poems by more than 140 Indian writers who wrote before 1930. Editor(s): Parker, Robert Dale. Num Pages: 456 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCQ; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222180
ISBN
9780812222180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.61

Paperback. Clare Pollard's fourth collection is steeped in folktale and ballads, and looks at the stories we tell about ourselves. From the Pendle witch-trials in 17th-century Lancashire to the gangs of modern-day east London, Changeling takes on our myths and monsters. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249113
ISBN
9781852249113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.42

Paperback. Jane Alison, the critically acclaimed author of The Love Artist, now takes on an equally demanding and in some ways more rigorous challenge: translating substantial portions of the Metamorphoses, Ovid's great epic of universal change, into elegant and remarkably faithful blank verse, along with selections from the Amores. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199941650
ISBN
9780199941650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.26

Paperback. Lowe's second collection follows her widely acclaimed debut, Chick, about her father, a Chinese-Jamaican gambler. Another of his nicknames, Chan also represents the travellers and shapeshifters in these poems. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780372839
ISBN
9781780372839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.36

Paperback. This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist's artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847495853
ISBN
9781847495853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. "..beautiful, unusual pieces. Romtvedt strips his voice to only that which he can say with certainty."--Sharon Doubiago Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 1. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
White Pine Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9781877727597
ISBN
9781877727597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.08

paperback. Certain Windows is Dan Burt's second chapbook collection. It includes poems, sequences and the title prose, a vivid memoir evoking a harsh formative world. Among others, the poet's father comes alive here and in the poems, a powerful, hard and sympathetic figure with the wisdom of the man of action. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 217 x 5. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771612
ISBN
9781847771612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.74

Hardback. Broadsheet, 35cm by 17cm (Framed, 51.5x33cm). One sheet ~ Fine clean copy, as new. Printed at St. Sepulchres press on the occasion of its Christening in the presence of the sponsors The Richview Press, The Dolmen Press and the Dublin University Press.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
Publisher
St. Sepulchre's Press
Publication date
1964
SKU
KEPH000014
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 125.00

Paperback. Modern Poetry in Translation is one of the UK's most innovative and prestigious poetry magazines, founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort. Editor(s): Dugdale, Sasha; Constantine, David; Constantine, Helen. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780372648
ISBN
9781780372648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.56

Paperback. 239pp
Publisher
Seven Towers Agency Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
9780956203359
ISBN
9780956203359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 12.34

Paperback. Translator(s): Williams, John Hartley; Ottschofski, Hilde. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 205.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852241957
ISBN
9781852241957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.08

Hardcover. 62pp. 16cm. Quarter cloth, with title label on spine, sunned. Pages shaded, text very clear. Keywords: Irish poetry
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
John Lane Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1914
SKU
KHS1010727
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 40.00

Paperback. Illustrated large format. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
MICHAEL MACDONALD
Publication date
1995
SKU
KEX0238431
ISBN
9780951862919
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Shoestring Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910323434
ISBN
9781910323434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. * A collection of timely and timeless poems that Maya Angelou has written for grand occasions - now in paperback Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844086153
ISBN
9781844086153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardcover. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oifig an Tsolathair
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1966
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KEX0281222
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

Paperback. Consisting of short stories, poems, essays and cartoons and comics, Cawl is an anthology of one multi-prize winning, funny, angry young Welshman's creative endeavours and social and political frustrations. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF; FYB; WHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910901526
ISBN
9781910901526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.37

Paperback. 8vo. Good former library copy with neat labels inside front cover.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Gill and Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Edition
First Edition.
SKU
KEX0298799
ISBN
9780903203012
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

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