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The Poet's Tongue: An Anthology
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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...
Another Time
Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of...
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending...
Stop All the Clocks: Poems of Love and Loss
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . . W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and...
Forewords and Afterwords
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis collection features a selection of Auden's forewords and afterwords, offering insights into his thoughts on various literary works and...
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets of the twentieth century shaped the English language with such restless brilliance as W. H. Auden,...
The Aeneid
Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton,...
Haunting Adeline: Book 1 of 2: Cat & Mouse Duet
AN AMAZON TOP 5 BESTSELLER! AN AMAZON TOP 5 BESTSELLER! The Manipulator I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry,...
Penguin's Poems for Love
First paperback publication of Laura Barber's new selection Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply'...
W. H. Auden
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePart of the acclaimed Literature in Perspective series, this critical study presents a thorough and illuminating examination of...
For The Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War
By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire...
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Penguin Classics relaunch. Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Though he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is...
Selected Poems
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...
A Little History of Poetry
A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."-Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"- New York Times Book Review Poetry is language made special,...
The Unaccompanied
'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday Times After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh...
Literary Lives
John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...
Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics
Author: Simon Armitage Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In Simon Armitage's work, there has always been a territory he identifies as 'a twilight zone' where poetry and song lyric...
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-18 & The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-45
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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good, minor stain on boards. Two anthologies stand as...
The Aeneid
Penguin Classics relaunch. Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his...
The Aesthetes: A Sourcebook
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: inscription on fep. Usual shelf-wear. At the height of the Victorian era, a radical movement emerged that dared...
Three Poets of the First World War
An important new selection of First World War poetry, edited by Jon Stallworthy and Jane Potter This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and...
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry
Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes...
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time
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Against the background of major changes, in society, politics, education and literature the author charts the personal lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge and traces the growth of their ideas. It...
Poems
A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets Poems is Wilfred Owen's only volume of poetry, first published posthumously in 1920 and edited by...
A Poet's Guide to Britain
First paperback publication of Sheers's inspired selection of Britain's best verse Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in...
The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the gilded drawing rooms of Eton to the literary salons of 1930s Vienna and London, The Whispering Gallery is the first volume of...
The Complete Poems
The complete collection of the poetry of Walt Whitman, one of the most influential American voices In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as...
The Collected Poems Of W.B. Yeats
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew poets have shaped the landscape of the English-speaking literary world as profoundly as William Butler Yeats, and The...
The Selected Writings of Sydney Smith
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Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the First World War poets
Author: Rupert Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever...
The Viking Book Of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some minor wear at the edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover binding. A landmark anthology of...
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
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Author: Derek Walcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career He gives us more than himself or 'a world';...
Letters To His Son, W. B. Yeats, And Others
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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, foxed with some loss. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact. Few literary correspondences reveal the inner life of...
T. S. Eliot
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The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)
The culmination of a life, this collection of poetry is an examination of the self, and the growth of a man First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death,...
W. B. Yeats
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in the history of English-language poetry command the mystique and...
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
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A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career "He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in...
W.B. Yeats Selected Poetry
A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for...
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953
Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no...
The Sonnets
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Author: William BannermanBinding: HardbackPublished: Barrie and Jenkins, London, 1998Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor wear on back of external coverThis collection of lyrical poetry, The...
The Satires of Horace and Persius
Both works have had a powerful influence on later Western literature, inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost. The Satires of Horace...
Keats: Poetical Works
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of English Romantic literature, Keats: Poetical Works presents the complete...