Poetry & Plays

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary treasures rival the breadth and beauty of The Greek Anthology, a monumental collection of ancient Greek...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: faded, in mylar. From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes First Things Last, a poetry...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe vast, unforgiving ocean has always been both a barrier and a bridge for those who dared to seek a new life on distant shores,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA window into the soul of a nation's childhood, The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Stories & Verse for Children presents a rich and carefully...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew poets have conjured the numinous from the everyday with the same quiet mastery as Walter de la Mare, and this curated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a creature utterly unlike any other — imperious, bizarre, and incandescently gifted — and Victoria Glendinning's Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume 1: Lost in the Dark Wood, Sacheverell Sitwell — one of the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedRobert Graves, one of the twentieth century's most versatile and commanding literary minds, presents in Steps a rich and eclectic...

Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerLong before Winnie-the-Pooh captured the world's imagination, A. A. Milne gifted children and adults alike...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Text: English & Russian. Price clipped dj. From one of the Soviet Union's most daring and celebrated voices comes Stolen Apples, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew voices in literary history burn with the same fierce, incandescent brilliance as Percy Bysshe Shelley's — a poet who turned radical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as T. S. Eliot, and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the dramatic elopement, the passionate verse, and the towering reputation of Victorian poetry's most restless genius lies a far more complex human story...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the chaotic crossroads of Symbolism, Surrealism, and outright theatrical anarchy stands Alfred Jarry — the maverick French writer whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long and luminous a shadow as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic visionary whose poetry, prose, and letters together constitute...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to write poetry — and more importantly, what does it mean to read it well? In The Cave and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat if Shakespeare's most enigmatic problem play was never meant for the public stage at all, but was instead a lavish gift crafted for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew tragedies in the Western canon cut as deeply as Euripides' The Medea, a searing portrait of a woman scorned to the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of philosophy, aesthetics, and poetry, English Romantic Irony presents a rigorous and illuminating study of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedByron's Don Juan is one of the most audacious and virtuosic poems in the English language, and Jerome J. McGann's Don Juan in Context is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the prophetic visions of ancient scripture to the surreal landscapes conjured by modern poets and novelists, The Oxford Book of Dreams presents one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingGeorge Essex Evans, one of colonial Australia's most celebrated poets, left behind a body of verse that captures the vast, sunburned spirit of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the sun-scorched plains of rural Australia rises a voice of extraordinary lyrical tenderness — the Collected Poems of John...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of sensation, mortality, and sublime artistic vision stands John Keats — and John Keats's Dream of Truth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as William Butler Yeats, and Memoirs offers an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the Romantics reshaped English verse, William Cowper was quietly revolutionising poetry from his modest retreat in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of biography and literary criticism stands The Egotistical Sublime, a landmark scholarly work that traces the inner...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew names in the English language carry the weight and wonder of William Shakespeare, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures in the English-speaking world command the stage with the same ferocious wit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in English literary history are as brilliantly contradictory as John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester — a Restoration court wit, libertine poet, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew anthologies have shaped the English-speaking world's relationship with poetry as profoundly as The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900 — a landmark collection that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew anthologies have stood the test of time as triumphantly as Library of World Poetry, a sweeping collection that gathers the finest verse from across centuries...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of nationalism and artistic vision, Poetry and Ireland brings together two of the most vital literary voices of the Irish Literary Revival...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBen Jonson stands as one of the towering figures of the English Renaissance, a contemporary and rival of Shakespeare whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the rich intersection of two literary giants, R.S. White's Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare presents a meticulous and illuminating study of how...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the annals of Romantic poetry, few lives burned as brightly — or as briefly — as that of John Keats, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the scandalous heart of the Restoration court stood John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester — rake, libertine, and one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history are as electrifying — or as scandalous — as John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, the Restoration court...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedOne of the twentieth century's most luminous literary minds steps beyond verse to speak directly to the reader in Essays...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew poets in the English literary canon have burned as brightly — or as scandalously — as John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingRobert Francis, one of New England's most quietly subversive literary voices, turns his sharp wit and finely honed poetic sensibility...

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