Poetry & Plays

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew voices have captured the raw spirit of the Australian bush with the enduring power of A. B. Banjo Paterson, and The Man from Snowy River...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works have captured the larrikin soul of working-class Australia with such warmth and wit as C.J. Dennis's beloved verse narrative. Set in the back streets...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the grandest tradition of epic poetry, John Milton's Paradise Lost stands as one of the most monumental...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most towering achievements of Western literature, The Aeneid of Virgil chronicles the legendary journey of...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small tear on front of jacket.From one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature comes a landmark collection...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAn Anthology of Contemporary Verse presents a carefully curated collection of modern poetry, selected by Margaret...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the glittering, often overlooked corridors of eighteenth-century English verse with Silver Poets of the Eighteenth Century,...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFor those seeking an authoritative gateway into the poetic currents of the twentieth century, Ten Contemporary Poets presents a carefully curated selection of verse...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA treasure trove of the English lyrical tradition, The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems presents a masterfully curated collection of verse drawn from centuries of British...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the spare medieval lyrics of the thirteenth century to the charged modernist voices of the twentieth, The Albatross Book of Living Verse presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of scholarship and creative passion, A Map of Australian Verse: The Twentieth Century stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the windswept moors of the British Isles to the rugged frontiers of the American West, The Penguin...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poet laureates comes Collected Poems 1954, a sweeping compendium that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark of twentieth-century literary curation, Collins Albatross Book of Longer Poems presents a sweeping panorama of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark gathering of mid-century verse, An Anthology of Modern Verse: 1940–1960 presents a carefully curated selection of the most vital and resonant English-language...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat if Lord Byron, on the eve of his death in the fever-ridden Greek town of Missolonghi, committed his most intimate confessions...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of a new century, British poetry underwent a seismic transformation — and An Anthology of Modern Verse 1900–1920 stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the English literary canon cast as long a shadow as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the visionary Romantic whose hallucinatory imagery and philosophical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of symbolism and mysticism, Stefan George stands as one of the most commanding and controversial figures in German literary...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of Australia's most celebrated and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets of the twentieth century shaped the English language with such restless brilliance as W. H. Auden,...

Edition: First UK ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched world of 1980s San Francisco, Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate chronicles the intertwined lives of a group of...

Edition: 2nd reprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark in the teaching of poetry, Voices: The First Book is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of criticism and celebration, Professing Poetry stands as one of the most candid and illuminating...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures loom as large in the 18th-century literary canon as Samuel Johnson — moralist, poet,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCross-Country: A Book of Australian Verse is a landmark anthology that gathers the rich and varied...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works in the English literary canon have endured as triumphantly as Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark theatrical experiment born from the marriage of Russian literary genius and contemporary American drama,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in the Victorian literary canon burn with such desperate, luminous intensity as that of Francis Thompson — a poet who transformed personal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew writers of the eighteenth century managed to master the novel, the stage, and verse with equal brilliance — Oliver Goldsmith was one such rare exception,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the fractured urban landscape of late twentieth-century Britain, Edward Bond's The Worlds confronts the reader with a raw and unflinching collision between capitalism, terrorism,...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersLong before the age of screens and social media, Australian children entertained themselves with...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sunburnt plains and dusty droving tracks of the Australian interior comes a rich chorus of voices in Australian Bush Verse, a celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the lyrical imagination of David Martin comes I Rhyme My Time, a carefully curated anthology of verse crafted expressly for young...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched landscapes of mid-twentieth-century Australia emerges a literary voice of rare and enduring power — The Hand of Memory: Selected Stories and Verse...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat separates a poem that lingers in the mind from one that simply occupies space on a page?...

'Henry V' is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry...

The Aeneid is a journey of Aeneas, a survivor of the siege of Troy. The themes within this classic work include piety, respect, destiny, war and peace. The city of...

Spanning thirty years of dazzling work-from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos-A Portrait of the Self as...

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