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Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780199537372
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €6.22The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence... -
The White Goddess by Robert Graves
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €13.71This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology,... -
Kahlil Gibran: Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran 9789387779020
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387779020Author Kahlil GibranFormat HardbackPage Count 632Imprint -
A Century of Poetry: 100 Poems for Searching the Heart by Lord Rowan Williams
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €17.62'All serious lovers of poetry will want this book.' A. N. Wilson All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, and to hold up a... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.21**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140275360
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.34One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780141394619
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €17.79Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in... -
Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802 by William Wordsworth
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.51'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume... -
AQA Poetry Anthology Power and Conflict Revision Guide: Ideal for home learning, 2022 and 2023 exams (Collins GCSE Grade 9-1 SNAP Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.01Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2023 exams ... -
All Of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver 9781860463648
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €13.93Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I... -
Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith by William Blake
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' William Blake ... -
The Collected Poems by Robert Frost
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58A wonderful collection of Robert Frost's writingNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. Hailed as 'the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet' by T.S. Eliot, he... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780199537488
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €8.82The supreme Roman epic and the greatest poem in Latin, the Aeneid has inspired many of the great European poets including Dante and Milton. The Trojan hero Aeneas, after surviving the sack of Troy,... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.46A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.70Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics... -
Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156724005Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.98Showcasing the creative power of one of the most outstanding English Metaphysical Poets, the Penguin Classics edition of John Donne's Selected Poems includes an introduction and notes by Ilona Bell... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143105138
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.70Robert Fagles's latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780141393544
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great... -
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Helen Cooper
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.02'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told... -
Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War Catherine Reilly 9781844082254
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.02Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new... -
The Odyssey Homer 9781853260254
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to... -
The Fall of Icarus by Ovid
RRP: €4.76Booksplease Price: €4.13'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other... -
Collected Poems: Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas 9780753810668
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.76The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS AND ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP.Dylan Thomas wrote passionately about... -
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres 9781509881260
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.28'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more by M. L. West
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.63The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest... -
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.05With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth... -
AQA Unseen Poetry Anthology Revision Guide: Ideal for home learning, 2022 and 2023 exams (Collins GCSE Grade 9-1 SNAP Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.34Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2023 exams ... -
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou 9780860687573
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and... -
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26If you can speak and read English, you can write poetry.The trick is knowing where to start. Stephen Fry, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure,... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393655063
Booksplease Price: €17.84This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes and book-by-book summaries... -
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.31Although a very prolific poet-and arguably America's greatest-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Revised Prof Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408017975
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.96Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world, while debates still rage as to the identity of the Dark Lady and how autobiographical the sonnets really are. First... -
Selected Poems: with parallel German text by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.07'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German... -
Love & Relationships Poetry Anthology: New GCSE Grade 9-1 AQA English Literature (Collins GCSE 9-1 Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.34Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams ... -
And Still I Rise by Dr Maya Angelou
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I... -
The Poetry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9780241566237
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €14.55The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works.Discover poems in all their many guises, from the epics of... -
The Life Of Robert Burns by Catherine Carswell
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €11.76First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard work on its subject.Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns...