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The book titled Occasional Poets: An Anthology by the author Richard Adams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Smith, A. J. M.Binding: HardbackPublished: Alelard, New York, 1951Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis anthology compiles a variety of serious light verse, showcasing the wit and...

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the...

Author: Elizabeth Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 You Know How a Cat Will Bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning...

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The wonder of birds has charmed and inspired poets down the centuries and across the globe. From Shakespeare's 'feathr'd king' to Ted Hughes 'butterfly lightness', of swifts, this is a...

Author: Jane McMorland HunterFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 185mm, 159g, 160 pagesPublished: Batsford, United Kingdom, 2024We can all benefit from a little nugget of happiness to soothe our weary souls in...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Chris Wallace-Crabbe...

Author: John WainBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsProfessing Poetry presents a compelling collection of essays that scrutinize the art and craft of verse. John Wain,...

'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' William Blake 'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak...

Two beloved and esteemed poets have collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art. Intended for all those who love...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew anthologies have stood the test of time as triumphantly as Library of World Poetry, a sweeping collection that gathers the finest verse from across centuries...

A unique collection of the finest poems and songs from the Scottish Bard This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA treasury of the English-speaking world's finest verse, The Poets' World: An Anthology of English Poetry is a landmark collection that chronicles the rich...

The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself,...

Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 358 Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsImitations is a collection of poems by Robert Lowell that reflects his admiration for various poets and literary figures. The...

This edition contains the original poems in French, with elegant prose translations by William Rees This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry -...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Poet's Tongue stands as one of the most...

Author: A. D. HopeBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA. D. Hope's A Late Picking: Poems 1965 ~ 1974...

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...

The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen...

'his voice attains a kind of living flexibility that seems both spontaneous and controlled' Daily Telegraph The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise...

Poems organised according to genre, to demonstrate the progress and variety Coleridge achieved Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry...

This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in Penguin Classics This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces...

Author: VariousBinding: HardbackPublished: Currey O'Neil, 1982Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Fading on tips of spine. Colour fade on dustjacket.This poetry anthology, "A...

Author: Fred SullivanBinding: PaperbackPublished: High Country Publishing., 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThe Most Poetic presents a profound examination of the art of verse, meticulously detailing the...

Author: VariousBinding: SoftbackPublished: The Masterpiece Library Review of Reviews, London, 1895Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markings20 Volumes from the Penny Poets Series - 2: Marmion:...

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A light revision of our definitive collection, translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The cliches...

One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of...

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...

The idea for Ian Hamilton's unorthodox new book was sparked by a rereading of Samuel Johnson's classic "Lives of the English Poets". Johnson included appraisals of 52 poets, but of...

A selection of Baudelaire's explicit and unsettling poems The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary...

Published for the centenary of his birth, a gathering of lucid, intensely lyrical poetry from one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be...

W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats...

Part of a series of new editions of Lawrence's works From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts...

A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded...

As the success of such promotions as 'Poems on the Underground' and the BBC's 'The Nation's Favourite Poems' has proved, poetry is never far from the hearts and minds of...

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...

Edition: 11th pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Some tanning noted on pages. Markings: inscription on fep. Binding condition: Binding intact,...