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The Swan of the Well by Titia Brongersma by Eric Miller
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £71.30Acclaimed 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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: £45.99Booksplease Price: £30.04Clodia 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: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.29Helen 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... -
Hopelessness by Verity Spott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60"The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts... -
The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930 Sarah Parker (University of Stirling, UK) 9781138662186
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be... -
New Historical Anthology of Music by Women by James R. Briscoe
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.12"In this new edition of Historical Anthology of Music by Women, Briscoe offers an indispensable resource for our own moment. . . . He has commissioned new biographical and critical essays by leading... -
Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts by Jonathan Goldberg
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a... -
Mimnermus: Elegies Dimitrios Kanellakis 9781837642601
Booksplease Price: £104.10The seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called "the most accomplished and the most musical" of the early elegists, has not been as lucky as other poets of his era... -
Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology by Ian Plant 9781904768012
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £22.87There is a general perception that almost all writing in antiquity was done by men. However, some important literature written by women during this period has survived, and many other women writers... -
H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines by Eileen Gregory 9780521106764
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): a lifelong engagement with hellenic literature, mythology and art. H... -
Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy by Page DuBois 9781845119263
Booksplease Price: £111.35'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French... -
The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives by Jennifer Michael Hecht
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.15Religion once formed the rhythms and structures of society: marking time with calendars, carving out space for contemplation, creating connection, reinforcing legacy and morality. Now, for many,... -
Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy by Page DuBois 9781845119270
Booksplease Price: £21.94'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French... -
What Makes Us Human: An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions by Iain S Thomas
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.75Why are we here? What does it mean to love? How do we overcome suffering? Why do we feel so alone? Is happiness truly possible? For thousands of years, humanity has turned to the same sacred texts... -
Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts by Jonathan Goldberg 9781531501600
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a... -
Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy by P. J. Finglass 9781108817059
Booksplease Price: £32.12How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the... -
A Literary History of Greece by Robert Flaceliere
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.53There are several good histories of Greek literature of various shapes and sizes, but the purpose of this book is not simply to consider the literature of ancient Greece as an isolated subject,... -
Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy by P. J. Finglass
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £75.82How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the... -
Mimnermus: Elegies Dimitrios Kanellakis 9781835537657
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.75The seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called "the most accomplished and the most musical" of the early elegists, has not been as lucky as other poets of his era... -
Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology by Ian Plant 9781904768029
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.57There is a general perception that almost all writing in antiquity was done by men. However, some important literature written by women during this period has survived, and many other women writers... -
Memory Rehearsal by Eleni Sikelianos 9780872869448
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books for 2026A genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history, ancient theater,... -
Literature: Why It Matters Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781509532315
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one... -
The Oar of Odysseus by Richard M. Bank 9781592110889
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £10.64Penelope Bauer sips on a margarita, celebrating her acceptance into the graduate Classics program at Boston University, unaware that she will soon become the central player in a bold scheme to save... -
Rebecca Harding Davis: A Life Among Writers by Sharon M. Harris 9781949199185
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.002018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleRebecca Harding Davis is best known for her gritty short story ""Life in the Iron-Mills,"" set in her native Wheeling, West Virginia. Far less is known of her... -
Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists by Jonathan Goldberg
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various... -
Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle by Selena Chambers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Babes in Toyland was one of the most influential and underrated bands of the 1990s. They rode the wave of the Minneapolis grunge scene crafting a unique sound composed of self-taught instrumentation... -
Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts by Andrew L. Ford 9780199733293
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £59.58Aristotle is known as a philosopher and as a theorist of poetry, but he was also a composer of songs and verse. This is the first comprehensive study of Aristotle's poetic activity, interpreting his... -
Poems of Love and Hate Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781852246457
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. Charting the lives and loves of a group of smart young... -
Literature: Why It Matters Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781509532322
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one... -
The Sound of Writing by Christopher Cannon 9781421447247
RRP: £88.50Booksplease Price: £63.73An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers... -
Greek Lyric: v. 5: The New School of Poetry and Anonymous Songs and Hymns by David A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.Towards the end of the fifth century BC, Aristophanes and the other writers of comedy used contemporary poets and musicians as targets for their jokes, making fun of... -
The Sound of Writing by Christopher Cannon 9781421447254
Booksplease Price: £43.83An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers... -
Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists by Jonathan Goldberg 9780823282081
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various... -
The Paths of Survival by Josephine Balmer 9781848615298
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The Paths of Survival explores the fragility of the written word; the ways in which it is destroyed and the ways in which, by each fresh miracle, it endures against all the odds. Tracing the few... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin... -
Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece by Felix Budelmann 9780198805823
RRP: £107.50Booksplease Price: £103.52Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the... -
Chasing Catullus Josephine Balmer 9781852246464
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Josephine Balmer's 'Chasing Catullus' ventures into border territory, the no-man's-land between poetry and translation, juxtaposing new poems with fresh versions of ancient texts, brazenly... -
15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid: The War / The Desert / The Labyrinth by Ovid
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Ovid gave voice to a group of inspirational women - queens, sorcerers, pioneers, poets and politicians - in a series of fictional letters called The Heroines... -
Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.09'Brave and ambitious' Independent In a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso and Handel each set upon the same plan - to flee the city by train. Finding themselves fellow passengers, the poet, the...