Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. Deals with the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. This book, which centers on ancient concepts of Homer as the author of a body of poetry, is not to reassess the oral poetic heritage of Homeric poetry but to show how it became a classic in the days of the Athenian empire and later. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 650 pages, 4 halftones, 21 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 35. Weight in Grams: 854.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 650
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674033269
- ISBN
- 9780674033269
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.54
€ 44.99
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Paperback. The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009639
- ISBN
- 9780674009639
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.20
€ 19.99
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Paperback. Traces the evolution of rival "Homers" and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 432 pages, 14 black-and-white photographs and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520294875
- ISBN
- 9780520294875
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.68
€ 40.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287758
- ISBN
- 9781349287758
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel. Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103214
- ISBN
- 9780230103214
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Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
Paperback. For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. This book examines Mandelstam's legacy and lays the groundwork for approaching modernist Russian poetry as a charismatic institution. Num Pages: 450 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269163
- ISBN
- 9780520269163
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.54
€ 41.99
€ 29.54
Hardback. John Betjeman was the popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his nineteenth-century forbears. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and religious doubt. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192716
- ISBN
- 9781845192716
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Condition: New
€ 126.90
€ 126.90
Paperback. John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and - more importantly - religious doubt. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195342
- ISBN
- 9781845195342
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.93
€ 36.99
€ 32.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stephen F. Austin University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936205714
- ISBN
- 9781936205714
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.51
€ 33.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349370627
- ISBN
- 9781349370627
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Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Editor(s): Zanker, Graham. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856688737
- ISBN
- 9780856688737
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.54
€ 33.99
€ 30.54
Hardcover. Tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity. This book demonstrates poetic competence through a person's ability to influence the attitudes and behaviour of others with poetic discourse. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Publications. Num Pages: 375 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021402
- ISBN
- 9780674021402
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.32
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€ 41.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Repeater
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910924303
- ISBN
- 9781910924303
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.85
€ 11.99
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paperback. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1990
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349204991
- ISBN
- 9781349204991
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Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardcover. Grace Schulman's poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. This book discusses how she became a writer, with influences ranging from her aunt Helen, who leapt from a tower in Poland, to childhood memories of her father reading to her in a foreign language. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070879
- ISBN
- 9780472070879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.48€ 77.33
€ 85.48
€ 77.33
Paperback. Grace Schulman's poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. This book discusses how she became a writer, with influences ranging from her aunt Helen, who leapt from a tower in Poland, to childhood memories of her father reading to her in a foreign language. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472050871
- ISBN
- 9780472050871
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.40
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€ 25.40
Paperback. Addresses the critical question of how to approach the study of women's writing. It explores various methods of engaging in a meaningful way with a rich corpus of poetry and prose written by women of the late Ming and Qing periods, much of it rediscovered by the author in rare book collections in China and the United States. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824867690
- ISBN
- 9780824867690
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.56
€ 36.99
€ 31.56
Paperback. The popularity of Yunus Emre, who is often referred to as the Turkish national poet, has endured for six centuries. This title presents a translation of his poetry. Series: UC Publications in Modern Philology. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2FMC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 182 x 9. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520097810
- ISBN
- 9780520097810
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.34
€ 41.99
€ 29.34
Paperback. An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work. Editor(s): Lockwood, Lewis. Series: Norton Critical Scores. Num Pages: 152 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVGD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 151
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393092424
- ISBN
- 9780393092424
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.73
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Hardback. In this chronology Gordon Campbell studies manuscripts associated with John Milton to create a synthesis of Milton documents. Many manuscripts that have been lost to view have been rediscovered, and some manuscripts are recorded here for the first time. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333633267
- ISBN
- 9780333633267
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Condition: New
€ 122.84
€ 122.84
paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252064593
- ISBN
- 9780252064593
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.84
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€ 24.84
Letters to W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound from Iseult Gonne
Gonne, Iseult. Ed(S): Jeffares, A. Norman; Br...
Hardback. Editor(s): Jeffares, A. Norman; Bridgwater, Christina; White, Anna MacBride. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403921345
- ISBN
- 9781403921345
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Condition: New
€ 176.12
€ 176.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 412 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126363
- ISBN
- 9781897126363
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.61
€ 37.99
€ 25.61
Hardcover. The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry. Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 300 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781383360
- ISBN
- 9781781383360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85