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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. This study aims to provide readers with a convenient source of reliable, scholarly, and accessible information on Chaucer's work, life, and times. Topics include Chaucer's works, major fictional characters, social, and political contexts, writers who influenced Chaucer or influenced by him, people and places of significance in Chaucer's life. Series: Palgrave Literary Dictionaries. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
329
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333998083
ISBN
9780333998083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.67

Paperback. This title contains six autobiographical works that Yeats published in the mid 1930s. Together, they provide a fascinating insight into the first 58 years of his life. The work provides memories of his early childhood, through to his experience of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Series: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats. Num Pages: 563 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333990469
ISBN
9780333990469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 113.38

Hardcover. Blake has maintained an enduring popularity amongst a large and diverse audience as a poet, artist and engraver. This volume traces his influence and afterlife across a range of major themes such as metropolitan Blake, Blake and nationalism and Blake and women. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333986455
ISBN
9780333986455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.49

Hardback. The Victorians simultaneously identified with, imitated and distrusted the "unmanly" poet. Writers - among them Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfred Owen - came to terms with Keats's work by creating out of the "effeminate" poet a sexual and literary ally. Num Pages: 251 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333985830
ISBN
9780333985830
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.45

Hardback. This volume demonstrates the extent and diversity of Coleridge's writings on the sublime. Series: Coleridge's Writings. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333972502
ISBN
9780333972502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.23

Hardback. In Blake's designs, transparent skinned bodies passionately contort in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. This volume re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; AGB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333968482
ISBN
9780333968482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.65

hardcover. This study explores the sources of the "poor Clare" tradition, and recovers Clare's agency, revealing a writer fully engaged in his own professional life and in the social and political questions of the day. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Edition
2003rd Edition
SKU
V9780333966174
ISBN
9780333966174
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.25

Hardcover. This text is a contribution to critical debates on Keats as one of the "Cockney" school of poets. Ayumi Mizukoshi argues that Keats as a poet of "aesthetic pleasure" by placing him in historical context of bourgeois consumer revolution. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333929582
ISBN
9780333929582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.39

Hardback. This volume is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBJD1; HBLL; JWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 443.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333801765
ISBN
9780333801765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.53

Paperback. This second edition contains up to date material on the New York School of Poets and its growing influence on postmodern poetics. It includes a definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 236 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333786390
ISBN
9780333786390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.28

Hardback. This second edition contains up to date material on the New York School of Poets and its growing influence on postmodern poetics. It includes a definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333786383
ISBN
9780333786383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.30

Hardcover. Troubled by his complex sexuality, Harold Monro was a tormented soul, whose aim was to serve the cause of poetry. This biography intends to rescue Monro from the graveyard of literary history and claim for him the recognition he deserves. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; BGH; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333779347
ISBN
9780333779347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.99

Hardback. Published to commemorate the bicentenary of the second edition of "Lyrical Ballads" (1900), this collection gathers essays from ten British and American scholars to explore the distinctive originality of these famous volumes, and to analyze their lasting influence. Editor(s): Trott, Nicola; Perry, Seamus. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333773987
ISBN
9780333773987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.91

Hardback. The advent of relatively cheap editions of poetry in the mid-16th century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first person speaker as a version of the author. This work examines ways in which writers harnessed verse for self-promotional purposes. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333773970
ISBN
9780333773970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.23

Hardcover. In this study of Yeats' poetry between 1902 and 1916, Greaves reacts to the tendency in literary criticism to categorize Yeats' work as "modernist". Instead, he offers a different way of looking at the transition in Yeats' work in this period, by examining the poems in the context of Yeats' life. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333749333
ISBN
9780333749333
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.46

Hardcover. This work presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the "autonomous" subject in Milton's prose and in "Paradise Lost". It rejects the orthodoxy that liberal humanism is just a form of domination, and reads Milton's texts as revolutionary. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; DSBB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333746752
ISBN
9780333746752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.66

Hardback. Of all the wide-ranging interests Coleridge showed in his career, religion was the deepest and most long-lasting, and John Beer demonstrates in this book how none of this work can be fully understood without taking this into account. Series: Coleridge's Writings. Num Pages: 287 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; DSC; HPM; HRAB; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333734902
ISBN
9780333734902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.98

Paperback. An opportunity for readers to engage with works and issues in late 20th-century women's poetry from two perspectives: that of poets themselves, and that of literary criticism. The poets discuss their writing practice and strategies, while the critics contextualize, analyze and situate the work. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333734384
ISBN
9780333734384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.30

Hardcover. An opportunity for readers to engage with works and issues in late 20th-century women's poetry from two perspectives: that of poets themselves, and that of literary criticism. The poets discuss their writing practice and strategies, while the critics contextualize, analyze and situate the work. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333734377
ISBN
9780333734377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.57

Hardback. This work examines the evolution of the modern English lyric, emphasizing the way in which poets, reacting to post-Reformation readers' dislike for invented poetic narratives, competed for the right to commemorate important public occasions and expanded the range of acceptable occasions. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333733585
ISBN
9780333733585
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.48

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