Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies. This book traces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 39. Weight in Grams: 458 524pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571242535
- ISBN
- 9780571242535
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.29
€ 19.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 202 x 4. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811200455
- ISBN
- 9780811200455
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.98
€ 10.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. This analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Translator(s): Tarnowski, Andrea. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 177.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734271
- ISBN
- 9780804734271
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.56
€ 26.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, this anthology offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Editor(s): Woodring, Carl; Shapiro, James. Num Pages: 891 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 891
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231101806
- ISBN
- 9780231101806
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Condition: New
€ 102.00
€ 102.00
Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001792
- ISBN
- 9780140285376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Ted Hughes's "Birthday letters", published in 1998, was greeted with astonishment and acclaim. In "Ariel's gift", Erica Wagner provides a commentary to the poems, pointing the reader towards the events that shaped them, and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8pp b&w halftones, indexes. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0000804
- ISBN
- 9780571205264
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0021016
- ISBN
- 9780140285376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This second edition continues the excellent tradition of the volume, offering students a comprehensive introduction to Chaucer's work and life. Editor(s): Boitani, Piero; Mann, Jill. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 480. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 334 pages. Editor(s): Boitani, Piero; Mann, Jill. This second edition continues the excellent tradition of the volume, offering students a comprehensive introduction to Chaucer's work and life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521894678
- ISBN
- 9780521894678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.41
€ 33.41
Hardcover. The two main themes of this book are Yeats' poetic technique and his aims for an Irish theatre. Included are several essays by Yeats himself, including the first publication of his Wildean dialogue, "The Poet and the Actress", as well as an address on the Irish National Theatre in 1934. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 325 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 639. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Showing light shelf wear, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0022144
- ISBN
- 9780333421123
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors. Series Editor(s): Feeney, Denis. Series: Roman Literature and Its Contexts. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521576772
- ISBN
- 9780521576772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.30
€ 44.99
€ 44.30
Hardcover. In this powerful and authoritative study Borbala Farago provides the fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 243 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782050889
- ISBN
- 9781782050889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.00€ 38.37
€ 49.00
€ 38.37
Paperback. Presents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. This title includes tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184203
- ISBN
- 9780141184203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.60
€ 15.99
€ 11.60
Hardback. Series: Writers on Writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 124 x 192 x 23. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780691154114
- ISBN
- 9780691154114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.56
€ 19.99
€ 13.56
Paperback. Thisis a series of meditations on the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing by one of the major voices in modern French poetry. Translator(s): Waldro, Rosmarie; Waldrop, Rosmarie. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 8. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726849
- ISBN
- 9780804726849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.46
€ 25.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A.S. Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge against the background of the great changes of their times - in society, politics, education and literature. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 208. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0005994
- ISBN
- 9780099302230
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Features letters that are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom the author was married. This book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 214 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 246. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0006225
- ISBN
- 9780571194735
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In Danger reveals the literary life of internationally renowned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. Editor(s): Hirschman, Jack. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872865075
- ISBN
- 9780872865075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.14
€ 20.99
€ 19.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404. Includes CD. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, ffep removed, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- HANSIB PUBLICATIONS London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0012861
- ISBN
- 9781870518642
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Paperback. One of the great Victorian poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems Editor(s): Baron, Michael. Series: Everyman Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128. One of the great Victorian poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems Editor(s): Baron, Michael. Series: Everyman Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- W&N
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0007230
- ISBN
- 9780460878029
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. First published in 1960, The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry from South Slavic epic songs to the Iliad, Odyssey, Beowulf, and beyond. This edition offers a corrected text and is supplemented by an open-access website with audio recordings. Editor(s): Elmer, David F. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- 3rd
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674975736
- ISBN
- 9780674975736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.74
€ 27.99
€ 23.74