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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. A collection of works by 20th-century poets who were all born or raised in the American South. Along with an acknowledgement of the contributions of the most popular figures in southern poetry, attention is given to under-recognized poets such as Anne Spencer and John Beecher. Editor(s): Rigsbee, David; Brown, Steven Ford. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920733
ISBN
9780813920733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.24

Hardback. In this final volume of the Virginia edition of Arnold's letters, he joins for the last time a Royal Commission on Education, travelling first to Germany, and then on to Switzerland and Paris. Following his wife and daughter, Arnold also makes his second American visit, to see his first grandchild. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1161.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920283
ISBN
9780813920283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.79

hardcover. The emotional and moral centre of this collection is the series of letters written during Arnold's first American visit, during which he ranged from New York and New England to Madison, Chicago, Richmond, Washington, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 536 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1093.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919997
ISBN
9780813919997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.02

Hardback. An examination of postwar nature poetry. It addresses the work of Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Roethke, demonstrating that poets have begun to identify and direct their writing to audiences interested in and dedicated to the work's subject matter. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919539
ISBN
9780813919539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.91

paperback. The interviews in this book reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae, calypso, folk music and "yard" theatre to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative. Editor(s): Dawes, Kwame. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919461
ISBN
9780813919461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.01

Hardback. The interviews in this book reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae, calypso, folk music and "yard" theatre to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative. Editor(s): Dawes, Kwame. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919454
ISBN
9780813919454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.44

hardcover. The fourth of six volumes collecting the letters of Matthew Arnold. The letters chronicle Arnold's personal life in the characteristically intimate note of all his correspondence. He loses a son, a brother and his mother, and travels to France, Switzerland and Italy, recording his impressions. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 496 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1039.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918969
ISBN
9780813918969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.01

Paperback. This volume brings together Melvin B. Tolson's three book of poetry - "Rendezvouz with America", "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia", and "Harlem Gallery" - as well as fugitive poems after 1944. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 31. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918655
ISBN
9780813918655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.73

Paperback. This collection of essays and six interviews, from the Furious Flower Conference of 1994, provides a mosaic of the major critical and aesthetic issues emerging from African-American poetry and its literary milieu. They address the main points for assessing the work of black poets. Editor(s): Gabbin, Joanne V. (Professor of English, James Madison University, USA). Num Pages: 400 pages, 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918419
ISBN
9780813918419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.03

Hardback. The letters in this volume show the woman Rossetti was at this time in her life. By 1874 she was an established poet with a literary reputation among her contemporaries. But her personal life was overshadowed by the deaths and illness of close friends, and her own affliction with Graves' disease. In the VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE series. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 875.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917832
ISBN
9780813917832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.15

hardcover. Volume 2 of this six volume set covers the years 1860-65, when Arnold emerged as a critic and went on to consolidate his reputation. His letters record his impressions of Europe on an official school study, with observations of nature within and nature without. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917061
ISBN
9780813917061
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.62

Hardback. Renowned as a poet and critic, Arnold will be celebrated now as a letter writer. This volume begins in 1829 with an account of the Arnold children by their father, and closes in 1859, when already a poet and literary critic, Matthew Arnold returned to England after several months in Europe. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813916514
ISBN
9780813916514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.98

Hardback. This analysis probes the nature of place and the structuring of desire in Tennyson's poetry. Focusing on the poet's early writings - fragments and poems produced between 1824 and 1833 - the author conflates desconstructive theory with psychoanalytic insights. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813914787
ISBN
9780813914787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.95

Hardback. These essays on Pulitzer Prize winner, Elizabeth Bishop, argue that her "sense of difference" as an orphan, a woman artist and a lesbian, play a significant role in the questioning of aesthetic, ethical and sexual boundaries that is so much part of her poetic practice. Editor(s): Lombardi, Marilyn May. Series: Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory S. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813914442
ISBN
9780813914442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.11

Hardback. The complete poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor, possibly Africa's most famous poet, are offered in translation in this bilingual French/English edition. The book, representing the culmination of a lifetime's work, includes "Lost Poems", a collection of Senghor's earliest work. Translator(s): Dixon, Melvin. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 704 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJ; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 45. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813912752
ISBN
9780813912752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.97

Paperback. This volume includes a contemporary blank-verse translation of Dante's "Paradise," the third and final part of his "Divine Comedy," along with prose commentary. Translator(s): Torrens, S.James. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC; DSK; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940866331
ISBN
9780940866331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Coles, Katharine. Num Pages: 318 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607811473
ISBN
9781607811473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.84

paperback. This anthology of contemporary work by Indonesian poets presents a series of ongoing analyses detailing the political and social shifts that have influenced the work of particular poets. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 389 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2PGNA; 3JJP; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 661. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896802162
ISBN
9780896802162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 231 x 12. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602584259
ISBN
9781602584259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.98

Hardcover. Offers a consideration of T S Eliot's essay as a form of embodied thinking. Exploring the similarities between Eliot's prose and poetry with the art of essay writing, this title discovers similar patterns of Incarnational thinking that emerge in each. Series: Studies in Christianity and Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602582552
ISBN
9781602582552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.11

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