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Literary Papyri Poetry: Selections: v. 3 by D. L. Page
Booksplease Price: €30.56Scraps of verse from the sands of Egypt.The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th-4th centuries BC fragments... -
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine by Kazim Ali 9780472072910
Booksplease Price: €97.58Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects-the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry... -
The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses by Alice Quinn 9780393609370
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.70It would have pleased Walt Whitman, that poet of urban motion, to envision his words coursing by electrified rail through a diverse, global city of 8 million souls. Since 1992, with the presentation... -
Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form Sarah Dowling 9780810147904
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.01A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder victim, the invalid, the layabout, the depressive: all are associated with lying... -
Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus by D. Gary Miller 9781614514930
RRP: €157.08Booksplease Price: €106.48Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent... -
The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction by Stephanie Lynn Budin 9780195379846
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €21.99This accessible introduction surveys the land and peoples who gave us the Labyrinth, the Acropolis, the Iliad and Odyssey, Herodotus and Thucydides, Sappho and Sophocles, Aphrodite and Aristotle, and... -
Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry of Eugenio de Andrade by Eugenio De Andrade 9780811215237
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.04Eugenio de Andrade is the author of twenty-nine volumes of poetry as well as numerous children's books, collections of prose writings, and translations into Portuguese of Sappho, Federico Garcia... -
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine by Kazim Ali 9780472052912
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €30.81Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects-the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry... -
Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Ewen Bowie 9781107692091
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €49.72In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its... -
Louis de Bernieres: The Essential Guide by Jonathan Noakes 9780099437574
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.56In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Louis de Bernieres. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Louis de... -
Gender and Sexual Fluidity in 20th Century Women Writers: Switching Desire and Identity Lesley Graydon 9780367502249
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74This book analyses twentieth-century writers who traffic in queer, non-normative, and/or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices, revealing how gender and sexually variant women... -
Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Booksplease Price: €101.90Anne Carson's works re-think genre in some of the most unusual and nuanced ways that few writers ever attempt, from her lyric essays, enigmatic poems, and novels in verse to further forays into video... -
Things We Leave Behind: Selected Poems Josephine Balmer 9781837380039
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.88The Things We Leave Behind gathers poems from all five of Josephine Balmer's acclaimed volumes, excavating a common ground between the distant past and our contemporary world. From the universal... -
The Zeebrugge Raid 1918: 'The Finest Feat of Arms' by Paul Kendall 9780752453323
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.49The Zeebrugge Raid was a daring mission to attempt to block the German submarines at Bruges. These submarines were responsible for sinking a third of all Allied merchant shipping during the First... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry by Linda K. Hughes
RRP: €79.73Booksplease Price: €76.52The Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women's poetry in its... -
The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €27.27This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The... -
Women's Poetry by Jo Gill 9780748623068
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.18This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily... -
Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell 9780190263539
RRP: €35.09Booksplease Price: €32.68Ancient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name... -
Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece Adrian Kelly 9781108840118
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €113.05Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the... -
Collected Poems by Robert Lowell
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.39The collected work of America's pre-eminent post-war poet.Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes successfully in the... -
Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves 9781324064459
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.20The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the US-Mexico border to... -
Water Lilies: An Anthology of Spanish Women Writers from the Fifteenth through the Nineteenth Century by Amy Kaminsky 9780816619467
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30Poetry and prose by Spanish women presented here in both English and Spanish.A dazzling sampler, Water Lilies brings to light a rich and until now largely invisible version of Spanish literary... -
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom by Norman Austin 9780801429552
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €48.85Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her... -
Women's Poetry by Jo Gill
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €102.57This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily... -
A Book of Love Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780195042320
RRP: €23.19Booksplease Price: €16.96From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson, more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love than about any other subject. Jon Stallworthy has here... -
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom by Norman Austin 9780801475054
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €24.86Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her... -
Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century by Amelia Worsley 9781501776274
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €42.26Singing by Herself reinterprets the rise of literary loneliness by foregrounding the female and feminized figures who have been overlooked in previous histories of solitude. Many of the earliest... -
Foucault's Strange Eros by Lynne Huffer
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €93.43What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault's writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault's erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She... -
Metamorphic Reflections: Essays Presented to Ben Hijmans at His 75th Birthday by Maaike Zimmerman 9789042915046
Booksplease Price: €99.35This "Festschrift" honours the Dutch Latinist Ben Hijmans. Besides his studies on Seneca "philosophus" and Ovid, Hijmans published numerous articles on Apuleius' works, both that author's... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry by Linda K. Hughes 9781316633571
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.63The Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women's poetry in its... -
Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy by Anne Pippin Burnett 9780520210967
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €66.27Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are... -
Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition by Madeleine M. Henry 9780195087123
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €66.93According to legend, Aspasia of Miletus was a courtesan, the teacher of Socrates, and the political adviser of her lover Pericles. Next to Sappho and Cleopatra, she is the best known woman of the... -
Ghost Passage by Josephine Balmer 9781848617940
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Ghost Passage explores the ways in which we write ourselves in to the landscape, leaving our own trace, making our mark. From inscribed ancient artefacts and recently excavated writing tablets of... -
Meditations Marcus Aurelius 9781324096399
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.81Acclaimed poet and translator Aaron Poochigian's vibrant new translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations captures and accentuates an aspect of the best-selling work of classical antiquity that other... -
Foucault's Strange Eros by Lynne Huffer 9780231197151
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault's writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault's erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She... -
The Swan of the Well by Titia Brongersma by Eric Miller
RRP: €108.29Booksplease Price: €84.85Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the... -
What You Want by Maureen N. McLane 9781802063141
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'McLane is a Romantic poet out of time' Ange Mlinko'Passionate, erudite, sensuous . . . McLane probes the minutest currents of human feeling' Sarah Howe'My favourite living poet . . . [her work]... -
Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister by Marilyn B. Skinner 9780195375015
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €35.75Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular... -
Helen of Troy and Other Poems by Sara Teasdale 9781513295930
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.30Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet's second collection, published several years before she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393655063
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €13.13This 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...