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Greek Lyric Poetry | |||
| A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces | Literature | |||
| GO Hutchinson | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2001 532 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0199265828 | ||||
| Published Price £43.00 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| Alcman, Stesichorus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides, Bacchylides, Pindar, Sophocles, Euripides. | ||||
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A Pilgrimage of Passion | |||
| The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | Literature | |||
| Elizabeth Longford | ||||
| Tauris Parke 2007 467 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1845113446 | ||||
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Nameless Flowers | |||
| Selected Poems of Gu Cheng | Literature | |||
| Aaron Crippen (Ed. Trans.) | ||||
| George Braziller 2005 167 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0807615498 | ||||
| Published Price $24.95 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Gu Cheng (1956-1993) is regarded as China's first contemporary poet. This selection traces his poetry from the early lyrics that made him a literary star to the late expressions of dark beauty that predicted his second exile and death. | ||||
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The Golden Age | |||
| Poems of the Spanish Renaissance | Literature | |||
| Don Quixote; Trans. Edith Grossman | ||||
| WW Norton 2006 201 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0393060381 | ||||
| Published Price £17.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| The Spanish Renaissance comes to life in Edith Grossman's new translations of forty great poems are presented with facing-page Spanish, an introduction and biographies of the poets. Including Jorge Manrique, Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de Leon, San Juan de la Cruz and Luis de Gongora. American-cut paper. | ||||
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The Complete Poetry of John Milton | |||
| Revised Edition | Literature | |||
| John T Shawcross | ||||
| Anchor 1971 654 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0385023510 | ||||
| Published Price $15.95 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| This is the first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. Collations of all known manuscripts have been made for each poem, and each work is arranged chronologically with the sequence explained. Included here are Milton's works in Latin, Greek, and Italian, along with new, literal translations by the editor. | ||||
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The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Quercus 2007 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1847241042 | ||||
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Karl Krolow and the Poetics of Amnesia in Postwar Germany | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Neil H Donahue | ||||
| Camden House 2002 285 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1571132511 | ||||
| Published Price £40.00 | Our Price £11.99 | |||
| Karl Krolow (1915-1999) was one of the most prominent German poets of the second half of the twentieth century. This study locates for the first time the hidden thread that runs through Krolow's work: his uneasy relationship to the recent German past, including Nazi regime, the war, and the Holocaust. No jacket. | ||||
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'Itching After Rhyme' | |||
| A Life of John Clare | Literature | |||
| Arnold Clay | ||||
| Parapress 2000 130 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1898594686 | ||||
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| A biography of the poet of English rural life John Clare (1793-1864), telling of his passion for rhyme against a background of poverty and illness, and the sense of isolation and despair that led to his alcoholism and mental breakdown. | ||||
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Hokusai: One Hundred Poets | |||
| One Hundred Poets | Literature | |||
| Peter Morse | ||||
| George Braziller 1989 222 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0807612138 250x346mm | ||||
| Published Price $95.00 | Our Price £30.00 | |||
| Begun in his 76th year, the last of Hokusai's great print series accompanies and interprets, with the artist's characteristic erudition and sensitivity, the great classical anthology of Japanese literature, One Hundred Poets. Only 27 prints were ever completed, but designs for another 64 subjects still exist. This beautifully produced volume presents the finished prints and the designs - 89 subjects altogether - with the poem (in transliteration and translation) and Morse's commentary on both poem and picture facing each full page reproduction. | ||||
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In Memory Of My Feelings | |||
| A Selection of Poems by Frank O'Hara | Literature | |||
| Bill Berkson (Edited by) | ||||
| Museum of Modern Art 2005 224 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0870705105 302x227mm | ||||
| Published Price $65.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| A tribute to poet Frank O'Hara published by New York's Museum of Modern Art for which he worked as associate curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, celebrating his status as a quintessential American poet and his contributions to the New York cultural scene. | ||||
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Chapters in a Mythology | |||
| The Poetry of Sylvia Plath | Literature | |||
| Judith Kroll | ||||
| Sutton 2007 308 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0750943459 | ||||
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| First published in 1976, Chapters in a Mythology was the first full-scale study of Plath's poetry and has become a classic of literary analysis; it focuses on the thematic meaning of her late work, challenging the image of a poet obsessed by death. In this latest reprinting the book appears with an updated foreword by Kroll that includes an account of her meetings with Ted Hughes. | ||||
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Poets and God | |||
| Chaucer, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake | Literature | |||
| David L Edwards | ||||
| Darton, Longman & Todd 2005 256 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0232525773 | ||||
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| Chaucer, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake... these seven poets are at the centre of the cultural heritage of the English-reading world, yet they have often become the object of study rather than of pleasure. In this scholarly, entertaining and often provocative book, David Edwards reveals their relevance to the current quest for an authentic spirituality in a mostly church-less society and shows how they can become 'enjoyable - indeed, even loved - escorts for life'. | ||||
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War and the Pity of War | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Neil Philip; Illus. Michael McCurdy (Edited by) | ||||
| Clarion 1998 96 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0395849829 255x188mm | ||||
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| This moving anthology presents war in all its horror and heroism as seen through the eyes of poets, from ancient China to modern America, and from ancient Sparta to Bosnia. Here, the conflicts that have scarred the 20th century are placed in the context of warfare through the ages - a relentless cycle of violence in which the concepts of honour, duty and glory are balanced against the experience of loss, grief and terror. Illustrated with scratchboard drawings by Michael McCurdy. | ||||
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Transports of Delight | |||
| An Aromatic Journey from East to West on the Wings of Perfume | Literature | |||
| David Pybus | ||||
| Global Oriental 2007 132 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1905246560 | ||||
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| For poet and aromancer David Pybus, aromas are 'able to mix and match our moods, enhance our emotions... tantalize our travels, bring us closer to our gods, promote our passions and revive our romances'. His anthology of poetry and prose celebrates this sensory world of smell that unites human experience - plum blossoms for the Japanese poet Kokinshu, ambergris for Herman Melville, the smell of Swinburne's lover's hair, and Ovid's Phoenix that 'lives on odours, and in odours dies. | ||||
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Rediscovering Basho | |||
| A 300th Anniversary Celebration | Literature | |||
| Stephen Henry Gill; C Andrew Gerstle (Edited by) | ||||
| Global Oriental 1999 168 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 190190315X | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| Three hundred years after his death, Basho is still considered Japan's greatest poet, a folk hero and master craftsman who wrote 'evergreen' haiku during pilgrimages throughout the country. In this celebratory volume, leading haiku specialists have contributed personal responses to Basho's work and essays on topics such as his influence in modern Japanese poetry and laughter in Japanese haiku. The book also includes 50 haiku read at the British Haiku Society's balloon-launching ceremony marking the 300th anniversary. | ||||
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