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War Poet by Jon Stallworthy 9781847772442
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during schooldays shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school, too, he was introduced to the... -
The Great War in Irish Poetry: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley by Fran Brearton 9780199261383
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £54.03The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish... -
Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 by Ian Whittington 9781474413596
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire'Writing the Radio War' positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in... -
Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 by Stephen Regan 9780199549825
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of... -
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.25W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an... -
The Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780393303858
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.39Of all the work bequeathed by to us by that generation of young men who fought in the trenches, Owen's is the most remarkable for its breadth of sympathy and its understanding of human suffering and... -
Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill by Peter McDonald 9780199235803
Booksplease Price: £42.59Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk about? The history of poetry in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland is one which ends with the assimilation of successful poets... -
The House of Clay by Peter McDonald 9781857548716
Booksplease Price: £14.19"The House of Clay" is Peter McDonald's fourth book of poems, containing lyrics which combine intense resonance of narrative and imagery with powerful formal concentration. Autobiographical material,... -
Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual by Richard English 9780198205951
Booksplease Price: £83.98Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of modern Irish republicans. An important IRA leader in the 1916-1923 Irish Revolution, this bookish gunman subsequently became a... -
Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations by Peter Robinson 9780199273256
Booksplease Price: £82.82Peter Robinson's third book of literary criticism presents a sequence of chapters exploring ways that selves and situations interact and become imaginatively identified with each other in poems... -
London in Poetry and Prose by Anna Adams 9781900564038
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £7.86This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: 'Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive,... -
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.In this personal anthology,... -
Look, Stranger! by W. H. Auden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Robert Lowell and Irish Poetry by Philip Coleman 9781788745093
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.50This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell's engagements with Irish poetry. Including original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the... -
Homeric Hymns by Peter McDonald 9781784101763
Booksplease Price: £17.95The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonald's new verse translations offer the major modern account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry... -
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry by Peter MacKay
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £54.56The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of... -
The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin) 9780631228516
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £41.67W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts... -
The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin) 9780631182986
RRP: £88.95Booksplease Price: £81.61W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts... -
Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture by Leo Mellor
Booksplease Price: £32.12From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British... -
Solitary and Wild by David Fitzpatrick 9781843511946
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.85For lovers of the often dark and troubled poetry of Louis MacNeice, his father is a reassuring presence: solid, sober, pious yet tolerant, a Church of Ireland clergyman who was not afraid to reject... -
Teaching Modern Irish Poetry Anna Teekell Hays 9781603297349
Booksplease Price: £33.50Modern Irish poetry beyond Yeats and HeaneyInterpreting modern Irish poetry within a network of national and cultural identities and in the context of economic and demographic changes of the past... -
Making Scenes 3: Short Plays for Young Actors: Indian Summer; Almost Grown; The Ice Palace; The Dark Tower by Harwant S. Bains 9780413698605
Booksplease Price: £26.64Four short plays for young actors Making Scenes 3 is an exciting selection of plays commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections festival for young actors in 1995... -
Being Human Neil Astley 9781852248093
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive series of anthologies. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is... -
The Dyer's Hand by W. H. Auden
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38In the early 1950s Auden began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with newly-written notes and aphorisms. In 1956 he... -
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.00A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. ... -
Collected Poems: Collected Poems by Henry Reed 9781857549430
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60Perhaps best known for his much anthologized World War II poem, "Naming of Parts", and a number of radio plays and translations from the Italian, Henry Reed published only one volume of verse during... -
From Landscapes to Cityscapes: Towards a Poetics of Dwelling in Modern Irish Verse by Marjan Shokouhi 9781800798700
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45«Marjan Shokouhi’s new book attests to the ways in which Irish ecocritical scholarship has developed into more than a simple ‘subfield’ of Irish Studies. Shokouhi takes readers on a fascinating... -
Herne the Hunter by Peter McDonald 9781784101725
Booksplease Price: £11.93Herne the Hunter is the sixth collection from one of Ireland's most accomplished lyric poets. In this new body of work, Peter McDonald deepens his interest in myth and storytelling through the legend... -
THE BALLAD OF BLOODY SUNDAY, DERRY, 30 JANUARY 1972: 2021 by Ernest M. Keeling 9791220110402
Booksplease Price: £16.96It is an inalienable instinct as old as the stars that a people have right to their land ... Ireland holds the dubious distinction of being Britain's oldest colony. 'The Ballad' is a narrative... -
Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland by Peter McDonald 9780198184225
RRP: £142.50Booksplease Price: £117.40Does Northern Ireland need `identity'? Does it make sense to discuss politics and literature in such terms? And what does it mean to make a connection between poetry and violence? In this... -
The Poems of W.B. Yeats: Volume One: 1882-1889 by Peter McDonald 9780367528928
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £43.04In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the... -
The British Council and Anglo-Greek Literary Interactions, 1945-1955 by Peter Mackridge 9780367591199
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and with British political influence over Greece soon to be ceded to the United States, there was a considerable degree of cultural interaction... -
The Poems of W. B. Yeats: Volume Two: 1890-1898 by Peter McDonald 9780367529314
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.74In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the... -
A Grain of Faith: Religion in Mid-Century British Literature by Allan Hepburn 9780198828570
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £66.22During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain. Not only were leading international thinkers of the day theologians--Ronald Niebuhr, Paul Tillich,... -
Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing Guy Woodward 9780198973423
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £89.54During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a... -
W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930. The many volumes he published thereafter included poetry,... -
The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 by Emily C. Bloom 9780198749615
Booksplease Price: £99.93The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second... -
Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 10: 1942–1944 T. S. Eliot 9780571396498
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £40.76'What is accomplished by this sort of cultural warfare is impossible to say: but it [is] a part of total warfare which one must, as an individual, accept one's part in.'At the height of the Second... -
Smyllie's Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times by Caleb Richardson
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early 20th century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to... -
Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7: 1934-1935, The by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.10T. S. Eliot's career as a successful stage dramatist gathers pace throughout the fascinating letters of this volume. Following his early experimentation with the dark comedy Sweeney Agonistes (1932),...