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The Story of Poetry | |||
| English Poets from Skelton to Dryden | Literature | |||
| Michael Schmidt | ||||
| Weidenfeld 2002 704 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0297829386 | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| This second part of a major four-volume project gives a history of English poetry from 1500 to 1700, the period which includes Shakespeare and Marlowe, Aphra Behn, Dryden and the Earl of Rochester. The first half of the book comprises essays on the lives and often politically troubled times of more than 40 poets, together with an account of their work; the second half consists of a sizeable (361-item) anthology of the poetry itself. | ||||
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Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems and Tales | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Edgar Allan Poe; Illustrated by Mark Summers | ||||
| Barnes & Noble 2004 242 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0760756740 276x210mm | ||||
| Published Price $14.95 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| This collection of some of Poe's finest writing sees his unique talent complemented by a series of evocative illustrations by Mark Summers. Shadowy and utterly compelling, these arresting colour plates and ghostly pencil drawings bring a vivid new dimension to works such as Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher. Whether accompanying poetry or prose, Summers' images have a maleficent quality that is totally empathetic with Poe's dark gothic masterpieces. | ||||
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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 | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0850363756 | ||||
| Published Price £10.00 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| '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 | ||||
| Paperback 0795701675 | ||||
| Published Price £9.95 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| 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 | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0951442937 | ||||
| Published Price £8.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| 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 | ||||
| Hardback 1403933162 | ||||
| Published Price £40.00 | Sale Price £26.00 | |||
| 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 | |||
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| Ludovic Janvier | ||||
| Flohic 1998 94 pages | ||||
| 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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The Catholic Religious Poets from Southwell to Crashaw | |||
| A Critical Study | Literature | |||
| Anthony D Cousins | ||||
| Sheed & Ward 1991 204 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0722015704 | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Sale Price £11.99 | |||
| This study of 16th and 17th century Catholic religious poets focuses on the interplay between the native English and the Counter-Reformation devotional literary traditions in their verse, and discerns a particular element in the Christ-centred vision of reality which is common to most of them. | ||||
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The Bridegroom | |||
| with Count Nulin and The Tale of the Golden Cockerel | Literature | |||
| Alexander Pushkin | ||||
| Angel 2002 64 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0946162670 | ||||
| Published Price £14.95 | Sale Price £8.99 | |||
| Anthony Wood presents translations of three verse narratives that reveal Pushkin as both poet and storyteller: The Bridegroom, a dramatic story with an aura of subconscious terror; Count Nulin, a comic tale of a landowner's wife who puts up a travelling dandy for the night; and the eerie tale of Tsar Dadon and the golden cockerel. | ||||
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Music While Drowning | |||
| German Expressionist Poems | Literature | |||
| David Miller; Stephen Watts (Edited by) | ||||
| Tate 2003 120 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1854374710 190x140mm | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| The beginning of the 20th century saw Germany facing rampant industrialization and urbanization: Expressionism was the artistic response to these socio-economic changes and to the nihilism of Nietzsche. Newly translated for this anthology is a representative selection of over 70 poems, written between 1910 and 1930, by 16 writers including Ernst Stadler, Wassily Kandinsky and Max Beckmann. The poems are accompanied by a number of Expressionist woodcuts, some the work of the poets themselves. Original german poems are not included. | ||||
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Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Phyllis Hodgson (Edited by) | ||||
| Athlone 1969 224 pages | ||||
| Paperback 048561006X | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| -Phyllis Hodgson's classic 1969 edition presents the text, transcribed from the Ellesmere MS, with introduction, copious notes, appendices on Chaucer's life and work, and a glossary. | ||||
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