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T. S. Eliot: A Friendship by Frederick Tomlin 9781138122529
Booksplease Price: $139.47First published in 1988. Fredrick Tomlin and T. S. Eliot were friends for almost thirty-four years. What emerges from Fredrick Tomlin's memories and the many letters which passed between them is a... -
T. S. Eliot: A Friendship by Frederick Tomlin
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37First published in 1988. Fredrick Tomlin and T. S. Eliot were friends for almost thirty-four years. What emerges from Fredrick Tomlin's memories and the many letters which passed between them is a... -
The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration by Andrew D. Hottle
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $67.65The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the women's art movement. Conceived as a nonhierarchical, secular commemoration of female... -
James Joyce's 'Work in Progress': Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments by Dirk Van Hulle
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $60.36The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed... -
The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer by James Dempsey 9780813062358
Booksplease Price: $29.71Regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement, the influential literary magazine The Dial published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and... -
A Preface to Ezra Pound by Peter Wilson 9780582258679
Booksplease Price: $44.45Provides an introduction to the life and works of Ezra Pound, a major modernist poet, theorist and literary critic. Throughout his life Pound was regarded by many to be a contentious and... -
The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer by James Dempsey 9780813049267
Booksplease Price: $48.30Regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement, the influential literary magazine The Dial published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and... -
City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy and Film Mary Ann Caws 9782881244643
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97First Published in 1991. Knowing any real city, and still more so, knowing what it is to know a city, may be as much about passive as about active experience. What we read in the field-that field of... -
William Carlos Williams by Crane Doyle
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.84This 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 Difficulties of Modernism Leonard Diepeveen 9780415940696
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained... -
Feminist Theory Across Disciplines: Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry by Shira Wolosky 9781138547490
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.26Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women's writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American... -
Wallace Stevens by Charles Doyle 9780415850858
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.75This 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 Little Magazine Others and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry by Suzanne W. Churchill
Booksplease Price: $60.36Suzanne Churchill's well-researched and superbly crafted study is the first book-length treatment of Others, an important and neglected little magazine that served as a laboratory for modernist... -
William Carlos Williams by Crane Doyle 9780415159449
Booksplease Price: $139.86This 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: $20.41To 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... -
Modernism by Robin Walz 9781408264492
Booksplease Price: $54.95Robin Walz's updated Modernism, now part of the Seminar Studies series, has been updated to include significant primary source material and features to make it more accessible for students returning... -
Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology by Stephen Bygrave 9780415755108
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $72.03Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology is a lucid and accessible introduction to a major twentieth-century thinker those ideas have influenced fields as diverse as literary theory, philosophy,... -
Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse G. S. Fraser 9781138241930
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.62First published in 1970, this work outlines the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English verse. It illustrates the close... -
The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives Lawrence Besserman 9781138970076
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a... -
Modern Print Activism in the United States Rachel Schreiber 9781138248281
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $67.65The explosion of print culture that occurred in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century activated the widespread use of print media to promote social and political activism. Exploring... -
Do You Remember Being Born?: A Novel Sean Michaels 9781662602320
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.15Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's moving, innovative novel about an aging poet laureate who "sells out" by agreeing to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI. Do You Remember... -
Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939: Resisting Femininity by Jane Dowson
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $67.65Primarily a literary history, Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939 provides a timely discussion of individual women poets who have become, or are becoming, well-known as their works are... -
Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse by G. S. Fraser 9781138241923
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98First published in 1970, this work outlines the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English verse. It illustrates the close... -
How to Write Essays and Dissertations: A Guide for English Literature Students by Alan Durant 9780582784550
Booksplease Price: $54.95The first book that literature students should read, this guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions and methods of essay and dissertation writing.Taking students through the various... -
Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches Adam McKible 9781138276062
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $68.03Little magazines made modernism happen. These pioneering enterprises were typically founded by individuals or small groups intent on publishing the experimental works or radical opinions of untried,... -
Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse John Cullen Gruesser 9781648433030
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28In this companion volume to Animals in theAmerican Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, John Cullen Gruesser brings together leading experts who explore the integral role animals... -
Prose: The Centenary Edition by Elizabeth Bishop 9780701186272
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.14Although Elizabeth Bishop is perhaps better known as a masterful poet, she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as this centenary edition of her prose demonstrates. From her witty,... -
Paris, 7 A.M. by Liza Wieland
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $13.98"A marvel of lost innocence" (O, The Oprah Magazine) that reimagines three life-changing weeks poet Elizabeth Bishop spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II. June 1937. Elizabeth... -
Modernism Peter Childs 9781138931626
Booksplease Price: $33.66Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what... -
Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain by Magdalena Kay
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of... -
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside 9780691218861
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.09A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet... -
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White 9781250849106
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.49Heather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading,... -
Other Traditions John Ashbery 9780674302440
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $19.44"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.00An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.07A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens by Eleanor Cook
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.13In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams by Bram Dijkstra
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Previous studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look only for the literary echoes in his verse. According to Bram Dijkstra, the new movements in the visual arts during the 1920s affected... -
Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism by Marci Kwon 9780691181400
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $63.04The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903-1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed... -
Poetry 101: From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry by Susan Dalzell 9781507208397
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across...