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Smyllie's Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times by Caleb Richardson 9780253041234
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $71.62As 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... -
Capital by Maureen Duffy 9781860468308
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51A lone Londoner maps the city, hearing beneath its surface the urgent whispers of the past. As he listens he grows convinced they are predicting London's future.Meepers, homeless and dishevelled, yet... -
Characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: Nine Studies by Stephen Harrison 9781443875332
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $32.59This 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: $118.68Booksplease Price: $97.41This 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
RRP: $112.23Booksplease Price: $85.42Epic 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'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: $19.35Booksplease Price: $13.93Bernard 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: $75.71Ernie 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
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $39.00Commonwealth 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: $94.38Commonwealth 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Zoom! 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: $135.45Booksplease Price: $102.56Seamus 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: $151.47Rediscovering 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Oxford 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... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393912517 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $3.39The 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... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393912524 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $4.14The 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...