Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Hardback. Series: Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies S. Num Pages: 250 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AJKR; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- National Association for Armenian Studies & Research United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780935411225
- ISBN
- 9780935411225
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€ 44.99€ 37.09
€ 44.99
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Hardcover. When Edward Thomas died in the First World War, very few of his poems had been published, but he was recognised as one of the finest and most influential poets. This work captures the range of Thomas' achievement, not least by combining poetry with prose. It also includes an introduction, and four critical essays. Editor(s): Newlyn, Lucy; Cuthbertson, Guy. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904634355
- ISBN
- 9781904634355
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€ 19.99€ 15.40
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€ 15.40
Paperback. Presents a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made the author so influential as a teacher. Num Pages: 199 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HREZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 246. Zen Talks on the Sandokai. 199 pages, 1 b&w photograph, 1 line illustration. Presents a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made the author so influential as a teacher. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HREZ. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 15. Weight: 242.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 199
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232129
- ISBN
- 9780520232129
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.27
€ 30.99
€ 22.27
Hardcover. Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803. This volume draws on Coleridge's letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths and to record and photograph the journey he experienced after he parted from them. Num Pages: 192 pages, 78 colour plates, 87 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; DSC; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 976.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated)
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300096415
- ISBN
- 9780300096415
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.02
€ 35.99
€ 26.02
Paperback. Ballads are memorable. This book was finished when the poet was 50, with too much to remember: bulldozers down the street tearing through a Victorian school. Ballads are bare and brief; tried by time. They salvage but they sing, stubbornly. Their stories are sure. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547511
- ISBN
- 9781857547511
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.22
€ 20.99
€ 18.22
Paperback. Cornwall - pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874) - published his first poems in the Literary Gazette in late 1817. This book explores the central question of how Cornwall's racy and politically subversive poetry managed to establish a broad readership where Keats' publications met with review hostility and readerly indifference. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318139
- ISBN
- 9781846318139
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€ 24.99€ 22.99
€ 24.99
€ 22.99
Hardback. It fills the persistent need to document women's poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded. Editor(s): Backscheider, Paula R.; Ingrassia, Catherine. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 960
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801892776
- ISBN
- 9780801892776
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Condition: New
€ 86.60€ 77.31
€ 86.60
€ 77.31
Paperback. Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline answers. Series: Brodie's Notes. Num Pages: 63 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KHT; 4KLR; DSBD; DSC; YQE; YQZ. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (XX) Exams / tests / exercises. Dimension: 203 x 147 x 4. Weight in Grams: 86.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 63
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333580516
- ISBN
- 9780333580516
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€ 27.52
€ 27.52
This book offers a fascinating record of conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky. The collection combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalinist Russia. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana; Jones, Chris; Weissbort, Daniel. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843154
- ISBN
- 9781934843154
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Condition: New
€ 121.09€ 120.61
€ 121.09
€ 120.61
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is the only Russian poet who has been taken seriously by Russian leaders. He is the most important poet Russia has produced in the second part of the twentieth century. This collection of interviews draws on eye-witness accounts of Brodsky's friends, publishers, editors, translators, and fellow poets. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana; Jones, Chris; Weissbort, Daniel. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 604 pages, 71. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1048.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 604
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843161
- ISBN
- 9781934843161
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Condition: New
€ 131.28
€ 131.28
Paperback. Offers a record of conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky - poet, essayist, and playwright. This collection combines biographical details with an interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalinist Russia. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana; Jones, Chris; Weissbort, Daniel. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235056
- ISBN
- 9781936235056
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Condition: New
€ 42.07
€ 42.07
Paperback. A collection of interviews that features eye-witness accounts of Joseph Brodsky's friends and family members, publishers, editors, translators, students, and fellow poets including John Le Carre, Oleg Tselkov, Petr Vail, Bengt Jangfeldt, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and others. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana; Jones, Chris; Weissbort, Daniel. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 604 pages, 71. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 857.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 604
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235063
- ISBN
- 9781936235063
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€ 52.81
€ 52.81
Paperback. Broken Hierarchies brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012. Editor(s): Haynes, Kenneth. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Number of pages
- 992
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198713180
- ISBN
- 9780198713180
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.71
€ 41.99
€ 41.71
Paperback. A modern long poem, focusing on William Penn, Quaker origins of American ideals, and subsequent history, Native American and European American. Series: Pennsylvania Paperbacks. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 287.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812217360
- ISBN
- 9780812217360
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Condition: New
€ 31.56
€ 31.56
Paperback. Examines the innovative and technically accomplished nature of Burns' poetry. This book features essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary culture. It demonstrates how Burns drew on Scottish vernacular traditions, English poetry and 18th-century sentimentalism to create his own, new kind of poetry. Editor(s): Sergeant, David; Stafford, Fiona. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748664887
- ISBN
- 9780748664887
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Condition: New
€ 29.46
€ 29.46
Hardback. By Design is a study of instances of poets enacting literary history by the ways they use and alter key elements of earlier poems, sometimes the work of predecessors, sometimes their own poems, in order to create new designs. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757997
- ISBN
- 9780804757997
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Condition: New
€ 78.34
€ 78.34
Hardback. Byron: The Erotic Liberal explores the relationship between Byron's erotic life and his political commitments, placing his poetry in the context of the work of other aristocratic liberals such as Madame de Stael. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511613
- ISBN
- 9780742511613
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Condition: New
€ 198.36
€ 198.36
Paperback. Byron: The Erotic Liberal explores the relationship between Byron's erotic life and his political commitments, placing his poetry in the context of the work of other aristocratic liberals such as Madame de Stael. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511620
- ISBN
- 9780742511620
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Condition: New
€ 55.28
€ 55.28
Hardcover. The first comprehensive account of the relationship between Byron and John Murray, the man who published his poetry for over ten years. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381335
- ISBN
- 9781781381335
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Condition: New
€ 135.71
€ 135.71
Hardcover. A study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron's philosophical contexts, it questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319716
- ISBN
- 9781846319716
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Condition: New
€ 43.03
€ 43.03
Hardback. In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva where he stayed together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori. This title focuses on the poet's life in the summer of that year. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846316432
- ISBN
- 9781846316432
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.32
€ 42.99
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Hardcover. Reflecting on the poet's claim that 'immaterialism's a serious matter', this interdisciplinary collection of essays, from British and American scholars, calls into question the prevailing 'materialist' consensus, and offers a fresh and theoretically inflected reading of Byron's poetry. Editor(s): Hopps, Gavin. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Number of pages
- 246
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319709
- ISBN
- 9781846319709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.53
€ 135.53
Hardback. This work consists of eight essays selected from papers given at the Twelfth International Byron Symposium. Much of Byron's poetry is examined, but the focus is on the Mysteries and Don Juan. The subjects include the Cain figure, Byron's skepticism, his attitude toward Christianity and religion in general, and his literary use of the Bible. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874134018
- ISBN
- 9780874134018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.96
€ 112.96
Paperback. Byron's Poetry and Prose presents an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters, and journal entries in chronological clusters, allowing readers to see the changes that took place in his writing in the context of the places he lived and his fame, exile, and travels. Editor(s): Levine, Alice. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 1088 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 145 x 33. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393925609
- ISBN
- 9780393925609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.88
€ 20.99
€ 18.88