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		Anna of All the Russians
		The Life of Anna Akhmatova		Literature
		Elaine Feinstein
		Alfred A. Knopf 2005 332 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1400040892
		Published Price $27.50		Sale Price £4.99
	In a country where writing poetry was an almost exclusively male occupation, Anna Akhmatova's (1889-1966) honoured position as a giant of Russian literature is doubly remarkable. Her poetic voice was sufficiently influential for Stalin to hold her husband and son hostage for years to ensure her silence. Prize-winning novelist and biographer, Elaine Feinstein, has written an intimate account of Anna's often troubled life, based on her poetic works, memoirs, letters and journals, and interviews with family and friends. American-cut pages.
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		The Annual Anthology (1799, 1800)
				Literature
		Robert Southey (Edited by)
		Woodstock 1997 300 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1854772023
		Published Price £55.00		Sale Price £3.99
	Brianchild of the German scholar William Taylor, who suggested a literary almanac modelled on those edited by Schiller and Burger, The Annual Anthology contains poems by Taylor, Southey, Coleridge, Amelia Opie, Mary Robinson and many others. The poets' pseudonyms are deciphered by Jonathan Wordsworth in his introduction. Two volumes bound as one.
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		Country Verse
				Literature
		Samuel Carr (Edited by)
		Bounty 2006 192 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0753713578
		Published Price £7.99		Sale Price £2.99
	First published in 1979, Samuel Carr's selection of poems is biased 'towards the specific and topographical and away from the subjective and pantheistic'. Here are poems about places and times of day, celebrating the English countryside through the seasons. The selections include poems by little-known poets along with famous works by the likes of Goldsmith, Cowper and Hardy, and are complemented by a 'parallel anthology' of reproductions of paintings and drawings by English artists.
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		A Pilgrimage of Passion
		The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt		Literature
		Elizabeth Longford
		Tauris Parke 2007 467 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1845113446
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	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) can claim to be among England's true eccentrics: a wildly individual, larger-than-life personality, he was as much admired as he was disliked. A writer, poet, rebel, politician and explorer, his controversial life was in every sense a 'pilgrimage of passion'. Elizabeth Longford, one of the finest British biographers and historians of modern times, has drawn on Blunt's complete diaries and papers to provide a full-blooded account of this compelling man. First published in 1979.
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		Coleridge
		Selected Poems		Literature
		Richard Holmes
		HarperCollins 1996 358 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0002555794
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	Coleridge is a great and daring poet, whose presence is felt echoing through the language by anyone who has heard the magical names of 'Kubla Khan', 'Christabel' or 'The Ancient Mariner'. Here, Richard Holmes, Coleridge's prize-winning biographer, follows the poet's own approach to making a selection from the poems, grouping them not chronologically, but thematically and generically. Holmes presents 101 poems, each with a detailed critical and biographical note, which together form a new survey of Coleridge's work. Off-mint.
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		Chapters in a Mythology
		The Poetry of Sylvia Plath		Literature
		Judith Kroll
		Sutton 2007 308 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0750943459
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	First published in 1976, Chapters in a Mythology was the first full-scale study of Plath's poetry and has become a classic of literary analysis; it focuses on the thematic meaning of her late work, challenging the image of a poet obsessed by death. In this latest reprinting the book appears with an updated foreword by Kroll that includes an account of her meetings with Ted Hughes.
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		Poets and God
		Chaucer, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake		Literature
		David L Edwards
		Darton, Longman & Todd 2005 256 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0232525773
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	Chaucer, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake... these seven poets are at the centre of the cultural heritage of the English-reading world, yet they have often become the object of study rather than of pleasure. In this scholarly, entertaining and often provocative book, David Edwards reveals their relevance to the current quest for an authentic spirituality in a mostly church-less society and shows how they can become 'enjoyable - indeed, even loved - escorts for life'.
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		War and the Pity of War
				Literature
		Neil Philip; Illus. Michael McCurdy (Edited by)
		Clarion 1998 96 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0395849829 255x188mm
		Published Price $20.00		Sale Price £2.99
	This moving anthology presents war in all its horror and heroism as seen through the eyes of poets, from ancient China to modern America, and from ancient Sparta to Bosnia. Here, the conflicts that have scarred the 20th century are placed in the context of warfare through the ages - a relentless cycle of violence in which the concepts of honour, duty and glory are balanced against the experience of loss, grief and terror. Illustrated with scratchboard drawings by Michael McCurdy.
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		Elegiac Sonnets (1789)
		1789		Literature
		Charlotte Smith
		Woodstock 2001 83 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1854772600
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	Described by William Wordsworth as having 'a true feeling for rural nature', Charlotte Smith also has the distinction of bringing the sonnet back into favour at the outset of the Romantic period.
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		The Poetry of Slavery
		An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764-1865		Literature
		Marcus Wood (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2003 704 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0198187092
		Published Price £21.00		Sale Price £9.99
	This anthology brings together the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery from the mid 18th to mid 19th centuries. Gleaned from sources ranging from published volumes to handbills and broadsides, and mixing works by major Anglo-American Romantic poets, including Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Whitman, Lowell, Longfellow and Dickinson, with curious and sometimes brilliant verse by now forgotten literary figures, the book illuminates the cultural inheritance of slavery.
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		The Thresher's Labour and The Woman's Labour
		Two Eighteenth Century Poems		Literature
		Stephen Duck; Mary Collier
		Merlin 1989 34 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0850363756
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	'The Thresher's Labour' first appeared in 1730 to considerable public acclaim, including a recital to Queen Caroline by its author, Stephen Duck, a Wiltshire farm worker. His strictures concerning chattering female workers provoked a spirited reply from Mary Collier, a laundress from Petersfield in Hampshire. Both poems are presented here, with an introduction by EP Thompson and illustrations by Marian Sugden. No jacket.
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		Nightrider
		Selected Poems		Literature
		Tatamkhulu Afrika
		Kwela 2003 112 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0795701675
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	50 poems from Tatamkhulu Afrika's previous 8 collections of verse representing the political, religious and lyrical facets of his poetry including poems from previously unpublished manuscripts.
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		Reading the Applause
		Reflections on Performance Poetry by Various Artists		Literature
		Paul Munden; Stephen Wade (Edited by)
		Talking Shop 1999 100 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0951442937
		Published Price £8.95		Sale Price £1.99
	Interviews, articles and essays on performance poetry by a range of poets, including Ian McMillan, Peter Dixon and Joolz, involved in performance both as a public presentation of written work and as an art form in its own right.
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		The Poetry of Walt Whitman
				Literature
		Nick Selby (Edited by)
		Palgrave 2003 178 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1403933162
		Published Price £40.00		Sale Price £25.00
	This "Readers' Guide" assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has reflected changing perceptions of America itself. Starting with early reviews, the guide moves through essays that elevate Whitman to America's spokesman, its "good gray poet", and closes with essays that discuss Whitman in the light of postmodern, cultural materialist, and "queer" reading practices. Nick Selby offers an overview of how the poet's critics have dealt with his work and its cultural legacy. No jackets.
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		Into the Light
				Literature
		Ludovic Janvier
		Flohic 1998 94 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 2842340493
		Published Price £11.95		Sale Price £6.99
	Poetry by writer Ludovic Janvier accompanied by artwork by French artist Pierre Bonnard in the form of a 39-page narrated piece written in the third person, with a biography of Janvier.
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