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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Selected Writings of Sydney Smith
$35.00 AUD
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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 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...
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...
Classic Readings and Poems: a collection for weddings, christenings,
A beautiful collection of poems and readings to mark any occasion, including christenings, weddings and funerals those special occasions in life all need to be marked with words bigger and...
Memories
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century Oxford cut as distinctive a silhouette as Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra — classicist, wit, Warden of...
Lions And Shadows
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Christopher Isherwood became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, he was a...
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
A biography of a remarkable writer - a hero of the 1930s - a panoramic portrait of a troubled century. Seven years after Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the first...
Wow!: A Novel
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T. S. Eliot
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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. Few poets...
Less Than One: Selected Essays
An affecting book of essays from this Nobel Prize-winning author Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of...
Stephen Spender: A Portrait with Background
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Hugh David Format: Hardback...
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 Caucasian Chalk Circle
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context,...
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...
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
A journey around the archeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain by the award-winning author of It's All Greek to Me. Shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, the Thwaites...
Secondhand Biography & Literary History Bargain Book Box SP2539
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand Biography & Literary History Bargain Book Box This collection of seventeen volumes offers a profound look at the lives of individuals who shaped literature, art, and science across the...
Poetry of the Thirties
Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and...
Friends Of Promise: Cyril Connolly And The World Of Horizon
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minor wear to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. A richly detailed work...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...
Parade's End
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Benjamin Britten 1913-1976: Pictures From A Life
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century classical music cast as long a shadow as Benjamin Britten, and Benjamin Britten 1913–1976: Pictures from a Life stands as...
Shakespeare & Opera
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If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. As Gary Schmidgall shows in this illuminating...
The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know
In this sequel to the best-selling "The American Reader", Diane and Michael Ravitch have gathered together the best and most memorable poems, essays, songs, and orations in English history, capturing...
The Poets And Their Critics (3 Volume Set)
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Chipped and worn with some minor damage along spine and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on feps....
World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
Virtually from its first appearance in 1951, this book was considered one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 40s. In writing it...
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
Seven years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorised life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and...
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'...
Stephen Spender: A Literary Life
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: John Sutherland (University College...
Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music
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A House in St John's Wood: In Search of My Parents
An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender's extraordinary life written by his son, Matthew Spender, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and unpublished archives. Stephen Spender's life, with all its...
Larchfield: The moving, gripping and wonderful debut about finding
'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the...
Collected Poems 1925-1948
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets of the twentieth century captured the turbulent...
Duden Deutsches Universal Worterbuch
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