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Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History by Peter Viereck 9781138515086
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45A reviewer once called Peter Viereck's thought "not common sense but inspired, electric common sense." This volume of Viereck's selected essays on poetry and on history, written between 1938 through... -
William Carlos Williams by Crane Doyle 9780415159449
Booksplease Price: €129.02This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as... -
William Carlos Williams by Crane Doyle
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €29.37This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as... -
The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine by Don Share
Booksplease Price: €18.83To celebrate the centennial of Poetry, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed the magazine's vast archives to create a new kind of anthology, energized by a self-imposed limitation to one... -
The Unstill Ones: Poems by Miller Oberman 9780691176826
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €42.30An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into... -
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780060540425
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.88Almost all other poetry anthologies have been edited and annotated by a committee of scholars. This is entirely Bloom's selection with his own inimitable commentary. This comprehensive anthology... -
The Unstill Ones: Poems by Miller Oberman 9780691176833
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.90An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into... -
The Collected Poems of Lucio Piccolo by Lucio Piccolo 9780691619354
Booksplease Price: €39.19"In Piccolo's poems we meet a Sicily latent in the country of the tourist guides and the history books, but it was Piccolo far more than, say, his cousin Lampedusa, who was destined to draw out the... -
Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky by Robert Pinsky
Booksplease Price: €25.64From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky: CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the random Harpies--mood, circumstance, the laws Of biography, chance, physics-- ... -
The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present by David Lehman 9781416537465
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €15.78There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes... -
Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature by Jon Hegglund 9781498555401
Booksplease Price: €39.85Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane... -
Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman by Alvin Feinman 9780691170527
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €52.66According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine 9780691203478
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €111.60What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes... -
Angina Days: Selected Poems by Gunter Eich 9780691144979
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.56This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in... -
Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman by Alvin Feinman 9780691170534
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.55According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because... -
Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World by Gregory Orr 9780472066216
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €24.55The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers has emerged as one of the most well-respected writing programs in the country, producing a generation of first-rate poets who are also deeply... -
Eugenio Montale's Poetry: A Dream in Reason's Presence by Glauco Cambon 9780691613857
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59Glauco Cambon draws on twenty-five years of commitment to Montale's poetry and prose for this extended critical analysis. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Stevens, Williams, Crane and the Motive for Metaphor by Robert M. Rehder 9780333510698
Booksplease Price: €55.62Rehder's study examines the use of metaphor in three of America's greatest poets. Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane are looked at in turn, their views on metaphor discussed and... -
The New World: Infinitesimal Epics by Anthony Carelli 9780691218793
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.48From an "uncommonly fluent" and "rewarding" poet (The Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray?The New World, Anthony Carelli's new collection of poems,... -
Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture by Tara Stubbs
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30This study develops the important work carried out on American literature through the frameworks of transnational, transatlantic, and trans-local studies to ask what happens when these same aspects... -
The New World: Infinitesimal Epics by Anthony Carelli 9780691218809
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11From an "uncommonly fluent" and "rewarding" poet (The Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray?The New World, Anthony Carelli's new collection of poems,... -
Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions by Michael D. Snediker
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71Michael Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms... -
God and the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry and the Ineffable by Paul L. Mariani 9780820352381
RRP: €115.37Booksplease Price: €104.04Poet, critic, biographer and Catholic intellectual, Paul Mariani delivers huge armfuls of experience and knowledge in this wide-ranging collection of twenty-four essays. As a man of faith in a... -
Marianne Moore: The Poet's Advance by Laurence Stapleton 9780691634623
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €117.27This book provides a full-scale interpretation of Marianne Moore's poetry and prose, starting with her early experiments and exploring the range and variety of her artistic achievement. It portrays... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America by Jesse Zuba 9780691164472
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but... -
Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics by Andrew Welsh
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how... -
Dylan Thomas: The Country of the Spirit by Rushworth M. Kidder 9780691619033
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06Since the Bible appears so frequently in Dylan Thomas' work, some critics have decided that he must be a religious poet. Others, noting blasphemous statements and certain irreligious aspects of... -
Marianne Moore: The Poet's Advance by Laurence Stapleton 9780691605692
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33This book provides a full-scale interpretation of Marianne Moore's poetry and prose, starting with her early experiments and exploring the range and variety of her artistic achievement. It portrays... -
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry by Robert Pinsky 9780691122632
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic... -
Note Book Jeff Nunokawa 9780691166490
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €29.13"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known."--Note Book Every... -
Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination by Mary Trackett Reynolds 9780691602165
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €57.56Mary Reynolds studies the rhetorical and linguistic maneuvers by which Joyce related his work to Dante's and shows how Joyce created in his own fiction a Dantean allegory of art. Dr. Reynolds argues... -
Allen Tate: Orphan of the South by Thomas A. Underwood 9780691115689
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.68Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and... -
Emerson as Poet by Hyatt Howe Waggoner 9780691618210
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53Since Yvor Winters' famous denunciation of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his writings in the 1930s, major critics have been silent on the subject, and Emerson scholars have generally avoided critical... -
Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics by Andrew Welsh 9780691656946
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €141.57Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how... -
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley 9780691136790
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes,... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America Jesse Zuba 9780691271118
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense... -
May Swenson: Collected Poems (LOA #239) by May Swenson 9781598532104
Booksplease Price: €48.16Often compared to the works of E.E. Cummings and Elizabeth Bishop, these poems are a free-ranging exploration of outer and inner worlds, of nature and the human mind In celebration of the centenary... -
Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry by Gregory Woods 9780300047523
Booksplease Price: €36.64Arguing that homosexual poetry is part of the mainstream of poetic writing-not a distinct and differentiated category within it-Gregory Woods provides a fastidious study of homosexual poetry in the... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €57.20How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,...