{"product_id":"secondhand-poetry-literary-criticism-bargain-book-box-sp2981","title":"Secondhand Poetry \u0026 Literary Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2981","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Poetry \u0026amp; Literary Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2981\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen books of poetry, criticism, and biography — Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Wordsworth, Samuel Beckett, the Penguin Book of Australian Verse, and more. A serious collection for readers who want poetry to think with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish Poetry: A Critical Introduction — F.W. Bateson — Bateson's foundational guide to reading English poetry historically and critically. A standard reference for students of literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishapur — FitzGerald's Victorian translation of the Persian poet: the verses on wine, roses, and the brevity of life that became one of the most quoted poems in English.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStratford-upon-Avon Studies II: Metaphysical Poetry — Essays on Donne, Herbert, and Marvell from the leading Shakespeare Institute conference series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSamuel Beckett: A Critical Study — Hugh Kenner — Kenner's piercing examination of Beckett's plays and novels: the radical stripping away of language that made him one of the defining writers of the century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristopher Smart — selected by Marcus Walsh — Poems from the eighteenth-century visionary best known for the ecstatic \"Jubilate Agno\" and the celebration of his cat Jeoffry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmily Dickinson — Laurel Poetry Series — Selected poems from the poet who wrote nearly 1,800 poems in private and changed American literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eW.B. Yeats — Joseph Hone (Pelican Biography) — The authoritative biography: his occultism, his politics, his loves, and the long development of one of the greatest bodies of poetry in the language.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Wordsworth: The Prelude — Wordsworth's autobiographical poem: the growth of a poet's mind, from childhood on the Cumbrian fells to his experience of the French Revolution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCotton — selected by Geoffrey Grigson (Poet to Poet series) — Grigson's selection from the seventeenth-century poet Charles Cotton, best known for his continuation of Walton's Compleat Angler.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eW.H. Auden — selected by the author (Penguin Poets) — Auden's own selection of his poems: \"Musée des Beaux Arts,\" \"In Memory of W.B. Yeats,\" \"The Unknown Citizen,\" and others.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Frost: Selected Poems — edited by Ian Hamilton — \"The Road Not Taken,\" \"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,\" \"Mending Wall,\" and the rest of Frost's essential work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCambridge Book of English Verse 1900–1939 — ed. Allen Freer \u0026amp; John Andrew — A survey of English poetry in the first four decades of the twentieth century: Hardy, Housman, Owen, Eliot, and their contemporaries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClassical Epigrams: Love and Wit — Studio Vista Pocket Poets — Greek and Latin epigrams in translation: the compressed wit of Martial, Catullus, and the Palatine Anthology.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSamuel Beckett: The Expelled and Other Novellas — Penguin Modern Classics edition of four Beckett novellas: \"The Expelled,\" \"The Calmative,\" \"The End,\" and \"First Love.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLonger Contemporary Poems — Penguin anthology featuring Auden, Patrick Kavanagh, Hugh MacDiarmid, W.S. Graham, George Barker, Peter Levi, Andrew Young, Vernon Watkins, and others.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Penguin Book of Australian Verse — ed. Harry Heseltine — The standard anthology of Australian poetry from colonial ballads to the mid-twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Penguin Book of Eighteenth-Century English Verse — ed. Dennis Davison — Poetry in the age of Pope, Swift, Gray, Cowper, Blake, and Burns.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Poems — John Gay (Grey Walls Press) — Selected poems from the author of The Beggar's Opera: the Fables, the town eclogues, and the social wit of early eighteenth-century London.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203487506651,"sku":"SP2981","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2981.jpg?v=1788150766","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-poetry-literary-criticism-bargain-book-box-sp2981","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}