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The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason 9780099547075
Booksplease Price: £13.16After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time... -
Characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: Nine Studies by Stephen Harrison 9781443875332
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £25.26This is the first volume dedicated to the topic of characterisation in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the Latin novel from the second century CE. The subject has not been ignored in recent scholarship on... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume 1: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse: 1926-1938 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.51This book contains all the essays and reviews that W. H. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books,... -
Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism by C. D. Blanton 9780199844715
Booksplease Price: £94.90Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated... -
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9781784874407
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent "down some profound dull tunnel" in... -
Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose Bernard Spencer 9781852248918
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Bernard Spencer (1909-63) was a distinctive voice in 20th-century English poetry, and a central figure in the Personal Landscape group of wartime Cairo writers. He spent much of his life working for... -
Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual by Richard English 9780198208075
Booksplease Price: £58.69Ernie 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... -
Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics by Peter J. Kalliney 9780190455927
Booksplease Price: £45.60Commonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential... -
Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics by Peter J. Kalliney 9780199977970
Booksplease Price: £100.23Commonwealth of Letters complicates the traditional understanding of the relationship between elite, aging modernists like T.S. Eliot and the generation of colonial poets and novelists from Africa... -
Zoom! by Simon Armitage
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage's meteoric rise to poetic stardom. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1989 and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. The e-book... -
Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses by Stephen Harrison
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £100.10Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly... -
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal by Christopher Stray 9780198777366
Booksplease Price: £117.42Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary... -
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars Daisy Dunn 9781474615587
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dream world - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with... -
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RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £2.57The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by... -
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393912524 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £3.21The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by...