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John Donne: Life, Mind & Art
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Author: John CareyBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography offers a profound examination of John Donne, one of England's most...
John Donne And His World
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. Few poets have lived as turbulently and written as immortally as John...
John Donne: A Selection Of His Poetry
Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. Regarded by many as the greatest...
John Donne: Poems
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew voices in the English literary canon burn with as much intellectual fervor and passionate intensity as that of...
The Complete Poetry And Selected Prose Of John Donne
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in the English literary canon resonate with the same breathtaking intensity as John Donne's — a poet who...
John Donne in the Nineteenth Century
In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged 'metaphysical' poets. Years later,...
Selected Poems: Donne
A new selection of John Donne's endlessly innovative and fascinating verse, from the witty conceit of 'The Flea' to the instense spirituality of his divine poems. Regarded by many as...
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
Author: Katherine Rundell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford...
Selected Prose
Searing, haunting and timeless prose from one of England's greatest poets This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also...
Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions
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Author: John DonneBinding: HardbackPublished: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis profound work presents a series of meditations and prayers, meticulously crafted during a period...
A Study Of The Prose Works Of John Donne
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Author: Evelyn M. SimpsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1948Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsE. M. Simpson's...
The Complete English Poems
The complete collection of Donne's poems, including his famous Holy Sonnets, 'The Flea' and 'The Sun Rising' No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge...
The Lives Of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert & Robert Sanderson
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few works in the English biographical tradition carry the quiet authority and intimate grace of Izaak Walton's collected Lives....
Donne's Prebend Sermons
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Author: John Donne; Janel M. MuellerBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsPoet and churchman John Donne was born in London in 1572. He...
The Nation's Favourite Poems of Desire
Yearning, anticipation, excitement, passion fulfilled...'The Nation's Favourite Poems of Desire' brings together 100 poems exploring the nature of love and longing. Poets throughout history have sought to express the nature...
The Oxford Book Of Seventeenth Century Verse
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A landmark anthology of English poetry, The Oxford Book...
Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets
Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways...
Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets
In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the 'durability' of the sonnet is...
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)
Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659
A rich selection of poetry from the golden age of English poetry. The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed...
Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography
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The Absolutist
The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. September 1919- Twenty-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a...
Writes of Passage: Words To Read Before You Turn 13
A collection of 100 pieces of writing - poems, prose, letters, speeches, song lyrics, quotations, and more - from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman and from John Donne to Oliver Jeffers,...
Exit Through the Fireplace: Great Days of the Rep
A nostalgic and humorous evocation of the days of local rep through the memories of those who worked in it. Many of today's best known actors pay tribute to rep...
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
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Don Juan
Byron's exotic poem on the love life and adventures of Don Juan Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the...
The Don: A Biography
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The Don : a Biography Incorporating Exclusive Interviews with Sir Donald Bradman
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The Education of Young Donald Trilogy: Including Confessions of a New Boy and Portrait of an Optimist
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Sporting Literature
Sport has always played a large part in British social life. In this selection, ranging from John Donne to John Arlott, Vernon Scannell, himself a former boxer and lifelong devotee...
The Don
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Silverback: 'A dark unnerving tale' (John Boyne)
' Visceral and unpredictable, Silverback is doing what novels do best . . . Told with real intelligence, skill and compassion, this is a seriously impressive novel ' COLIN WALSH...
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then...
Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne
Almost two decades after his death, John Wayne is still America's favorite movie star. More than an actor, Wayne is a cultural icon whose stature seems to grow with the...
Don Juan In Context
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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...
Coryat's Crudities in Two Volumes
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I, Claudius: Popular Penguins
Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. Regarded as little more than...
An Untitled Story
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Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markings-
Ten Poems for a Wedding
A wedding isn't a wedding without a poem. The enduring quality of great poetry seems to promise that all will be well for a couple on the threshold of marriage....
The New Oxford Book Of English Verse
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few anthologies have achieved the canonical status of The New Oxford...
Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980
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Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980 Twenty-one books of poetry, drama, and literary reference — Ibsen, Shaw, Euripides, Sophocles, Lorca, Howard Barker, Edward Albee, Sheridan, Geoffrey Dutton,...