Poetry & Plays

Simon Armitage's new collection brings news from unusual places, whether from the recent past (an island being born off the coast of Iceland, the 'Women of Merrie England' coffee houses...

This anthology traces the history of England from the time of Boadicea to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and it does so in verse. It tells of the fates...

The book titled Slessor Collected Poems by the author Kenneth Slessor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edward Thomas, poet, essayist, and critic, with some thirty books to his name, was thirty-nine when he was killed in the Arras offensive on Easter Day, 1917. F.R. Leavis singled...

A collection of the beautiful, surprising poems of Catullus. One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the...

The sonnets of Shakespeare When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of Renaissance ambition and Baroque despair, Jacobean theatre produced some of the most psychologically...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedPart of the prestigious Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series, Rob Lyle's Mistral presents a focused and illuminating critical study...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the halls of Otago University comes a rare and intimate collection of verse and reflections...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the twilight years of one of Russia's most defiant literary voices, Osip Mandelstam produced a body of verse that stands as both a...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of faith and verse, Poetry and Life: An Anthology of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the front lines of the Western Desert to the cramped quarters of an English childhood, A Prose Miscellany presents the full breadth of...

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Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the winter seasons between 1913 and 1916, two of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures — Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century literature provoke as much fascination, controversy, and reverence as Ezra Pound — poet, propagandist, mentor, and maverick —...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. fep clipped. In the landscape of postwar German literature, few dramatists provoked as much controversy or moral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Tsarist repression and revolutionary idealism stands Kondratiy Fyodorovich Ryleev — poet, conspirator, and martyr — whose short life burned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSome books whisper wisdom so quietly that they stay with you for a lifetime — The Thoughts of Nanushka is one such treasure....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingEdmund Wilson, one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds, steps beyond his celebrated role as critic and chronicler to present...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.First published in 1807, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few works have made the genius of William Shakespeare as universally...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew poets have lived as ferociously and as brilliantly as Dylan Thomas, the Welsh wordsmith whose voice, verse, and vices made him one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew regions on Earth inspire such raw, mythic storytelling as the vast and unforgiving landscape of Western Australia,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew voices in American theatre have cut as deeply into the nation's conscience as Arthur Miller's, and Collected Plays...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Pages: tanning and foxing. Internally sound. At the crossroads of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works in the English literary canon possess the luminous duality of William Blake's Songs of...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the fall of Troy, one man is chosen by fate to carry the legacy of a dying civilization across storm-tossed seas and...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA landmark in twentieth-century literary curation, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse stands as one of the most celebrated and debated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the heart of early twentieth-century Australia comes a voice of fierce compassion and lyrical power — The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of theatrical innovation and social upheaval, Mid-Century Drama stands as an authoritative and incisive survey...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom behind a microphone stand, a defiant voice rose against the iron grip of East German authoritarianism —...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works of world literature have endured with the haunting resonance of The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHenrik Ibsen, the father of modern drama, unleashed a storm of controversy upon the Victorian world with Ghosts,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices in the English literary canon cut as sharply or as wittily as that of Jonathan Swift, and the Collected Poems of Jonathan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew poets have shaped the English literary tradition as profoundly as John Milton, and The Poetical Works of John Milton...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: fep clipped. Few figures in twentieth-century literature cast as long a shadow as T.S. Eliot, and poet and critic Stephen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhere science meets the sublime, Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef unites the lyrical vision of poet Mark O'Connor with the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIan Mudie's Look, the Kingfisher! is a vibrant collection of poetry rooted in the Australian landscape, capturing the raw beauty and spirit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWith the quiet precision of a beachcomber cataloguing rare finds, Blue Glass and Turtle's Eggs by Marilla North presents a delicate and luminous collection...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA haunting meditation on survival, conflict, and the fragile relationship between humanity and the land it inhabits, Wherever We Step the Land...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew dramatists captured the glittering hypocrisy of Georgian society with the razor-sharp wit of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and this authoritative collection brings...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a figure of towering eccentricity and volcanic talent — a poet who declared war on mediocrity and made herself into a living...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a vivid...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsBehind the glittering curtain of Moscow's theatrical world lies a labyrinth of vanity, bureaucracy, and creative...