{"product_id":"secondhand-poetry-bargain-book-box-sp2859","title":"Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2859","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2859\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eTwenty poetry books spanning the First World War to Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, Clive James, Erica Jong, and John Betjeman — alongside the Metaphysical Poets, Browning, and two volumes from John Reid's beloved ABC Poet's Corner. A warm and wide-ranging collection from the serious to the celebratory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMen Who March Away: Poems of the First World War — ed. I.M. Parsons — Parsons's authoritative Great War anthology, gathering the full range of voices from Rupert Brooke's early idealism through to the bitter disillusionment of Owen, Sassoon, and Rosenberg.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins — ed. W.H. Gardner and N.H. MacKenzie (Fourth Edition, Oxford) — The standard scholarly edition of Hopkins's complete poems — the text from which every serious reader of Hopkins works.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePrize Winning Poetry: Battle of Britain Anniversary — compiled by C. John Taylor — An anthology assembled from the Battle of Britain Annual Poetry Collections, with the distinction of including Margaret Thatcher's stated favourite poem — a curio of its political moment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Lure of the Limerick — W.S. Baring-Gould — Baring-Gould's entertaining history and anthology of the limerick, tracing the form from its origins through to its twentieth-century flowering in barrooms and drawing rooms alike.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRestoration and Augustan Poets: Milton to Goldsmith — ed. W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson — Auden and Pearson's selection from the period between the Metaphysicals and the Romantics — Pope, Dryden, Swift, Gray, and their contemporaries in one authoritative portable volume.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSpoon River Anthology — Edgar Lee Masters — Masters's extraordinary 1915 collection of dramatic monologues spoken by the dead inhabitants of a Midwestern town, each revealing the secret truths of their lives — one of the most original American poetry collections of the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Rattle Bag — ed. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes — The landmark personal anthology compiled by two of the greatest poets of the century, arranged alphabetically and deliberately subverting every expectation of what an anthology should contain — one of the best poetry anthologies ever made.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Poetry of Robert Frost — ed. Edward Connery Lathem — The standard collected edition, from the early New Hampshire landscapes through to his late work — gathering one of the twentieth century's most deceptively complex voices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSelected Poetry of Browning — ed. Kenneth L. Knickerbocker (Modern Library College Editions) — A scholarly selection from the Victorian poet whose dramatic monologues — My Last Duchess, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto — remain among the most psychologically vivid poems in the language.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Metaphysical Poets — ed. Helen Gardner — Gardner's landmark Oxford anthology presenting Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell, and Vaughan alongside her critical framework for understanding what makes them distinctive — essential.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRobert Lowell: Selected Poems — Faber paper covered editions — A selection from one of the dominant voices in twentieth-century American poetry — the confessional intensity of Life Studies, the political engagement of For the Union Dead, the formal range of everything in between.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLove — A themed anthology gathering love poems across centuries and cultures, its vivid 1960s cover art matching the expansive emotional ambition of its contents.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCorgi Modern Poets in Focus 2 — A volume presenting work by Wilfred Owen, Thomas Blackburn, Seamus Heaney, William Meredith, and Douglas Dunn — an eclectic and stimulating mix of twentieth-century voices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Book of My Enemy: Collected Verse 1958-2003 — Clive James — Forty-five years of poems from a writer better known as a critic and broadcaster, revealing an entirely different dimension — witty, formally accomplished, and often unexpectedly moving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Best of John Reid's Poet's Corner: Volume Two — A second collection of poems, stories, and anecdotes from John Reid's beloved ABC radio program — the kind of book that reminds you what poetry meant to ordinary Australian listeners.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Best of John Reid's Poet's Corner — The first collection from Reid's 3LO radio show, illustrated by Peter Putzamer — an affectionate gathering of verse that carries the warmth of its original broadcast audience.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFavourite Poems We Learned in School — compiled by Thomas F. Walsh — The poems that stayed with people long after they left the classroom — a nostalgic and warmly useful anthology of the verses that formed generations of readers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Penguin Book of Australian Verse — ed. Harry Heseltine — Heseltine's comprehensive Penguin anthology — the essential introduction to a national poetic tradition that continues to surprise and reward.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSelected Poems II — Erica Jong — The second volume of selected poems from the author of Fear of Flying, revealing a serious and formally accomplished poet whose verse has often been overshadowed by her fame as a novelist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eJohn Betjeman's Collected Poems — The complete poems of Britain's much-loved Poet Laureate, whose topographical elegies and wry social observation made him the most popular British poet of the mid-twentieth century — a book to keep within reach.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48971060904155,"sku":"SP2859","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2859.jpg?v=1783937493","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-poetry-bargain-book-box-sp2859","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}