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Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A. R. Ammons by David Burak 9780393059991
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £36.14This intimate collection of essays addressed to the common reader pays tribute to one of the twentieth century's major poets. Encompassing every phase of A. R. Ammons's oeuvre, from his beginnings in... -
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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance by Kenneth S. Sacks 9780691099828
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost... -
Bloom's How to Write About Herman Melville by Laurie A. Sterling 9780791097441
Booksplease Price: £38.16Although he spent much of his career in obscurity, Herman Melville, the author of classics such as ""Moby-Dick"", ""Billy Budd"", and ""Bartleby, the Scrivener,"" has since become known as one of... -
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien by Tim O'Brien 9781604138733
Booksplease Price: £39.72This collection of stories from Tim O'Brien paints an often-brutal portrait of soldiers' lives during the Vietnam War. More than two decades after its initial publication, this new classic of... -
The Poetry of Hart Crane by Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37One of the leading critics of our time, R.W.B. Lewis, charts the career of Hart Crane's imagination-of his vision, his rhetoric, and his craft. Crane, who has heretofore been assigned a relatively... -
English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism by M. H. Abrams 9780195019469
Booksplease Price: £27.88This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan... -
Walt Whitman: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #4) by Walt Whitman 9781931082327
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.03American literature and culture are inconceivable without the towering presence of Walt Whitman. Expansive, ecstatic, original in ways that continue to startle and to elicit new discoveries,... -
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake 9780520256378
Booksplease Price: £32.38Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold... -
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, NEW ED by 9781604138115
Booksplease Price: £24.76This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces. Each title features: concise critical excerpts that provide a scholarly... -
John Clare: The Critical Heritage Mark Storey 9780415867344
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and... -
The Fourth Dimension of a Poem: and Other Essays by M. H. Abrams 9780393058307
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about... -
Edgar Allan Poe by 9780791085677
Booksplease Price: £37.86Edgar Allan Poe's eerie stories and poems continue to captivate readers to this day. He not only wrote such gothic classics as ""The Raven,"" ""The Tell-Tale Heart,"" and ""The Fall of the House of... -
The Stranger by 9781604135800
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.99Camus's landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. The Stranger presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man... -
Gospel Prism by Gerald Weaver 9780992994358
Booksplease Price: £20.70Alone in his jail cell, Christian receives a midnight visitation from a beautiful stranger. She is the messiah and tasks him with solving a series of spiritual mysteries in order to save his immortal... -
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo 9781350564138
Booksplease Price: £29.15The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory. Examining 75 key... -
John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography by John Stubbs 9780393333664
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £25.91From scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets. Following Donne from Plague-ridden streets to palaces, from taverns to the... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9780300106541
Booksplease Price: £6.89The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist "To be able to read Macbeth with the eye of one of our profession's top... -
Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading by Avrom Fleishman
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25"A scholarly and original contribution to the autobiographical impulse at the heart of (Woolf's) ...writings".--Harold Bloom, Yale University.About the AuthorAvrom Fleishman is a retired professor... -
The New Arcadia: Poems by J. Kinsella 9780393329070
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.62"Astonishingly fecund and inventive. The New Arcadia revitalizes pastoral traditions, but more in the mode of lamentation than celebration. Like Frost's New Hampshire and Vermont, Kinsella's Western... -
Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century by Kurt Spellmeyer 9780791456484
Booksplease Price: £27.36Argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century.Arts of Living presents a social history of the humanities and a proposal for... -
The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats by Peter M. Sacks
Booksplease Price: £30.55In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. "The English Elegy" is an... -
The Trickster by 9781604134452
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.99The trickster, a character that tests the taboos of a society, is rooted in the Native American literary tradition. However, writers the world over have used this knavish character to great effect in... -
The Invention of Influence by Peter Cole 9780811221726
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.08Peter Cole has been called "an inspired writer" (The Nation) and "one of the handful of authentic poets of his own American generation" (Harold Bloom). In this, his fourth book of poems, he presents... -
Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A. R. Ammons 9780393321920
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £22.14"It will seem increasingly to many attentive readers that this volume-the most distinguished book of American verse, in my judgment, since the publication of Wallace Stevens's Collected Poems in... -
Mothers and Other Clowns: The Stories of Alice Munro by Magdalene Redekop
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1992, this is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre... -
Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition by William Butler Yeats 9780393974973
Booksplease Price: £22.38"Criticism" includes twenty-four interpretive essays by T. S. Eliot, Daniel Albright, Douglas Archibald, Harold Bloom, George Bornstein, Elizabeth Cullingford, Paul de Man, Richard Ellman, R. F... -
The Third Millennium: Reflections on Faith and Reason by David Walsh 9780878407552
Booksplease Price: £54.52This provocative meditation on the turn of the millennium explores the significance that a celebration of Christ's birth can have beyond the Christian community. Writing from the perspective of... -
Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry by Steven Matthews 9780333711477
Booksplease Price: £46.28As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.B. Yeats has proved to be perhaps the most influential poet of the early twentieth-century. In this original study Steven Matthews traces, through close... -
Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown by James McIntosh 9780472030552
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14"The most subtly intelligent discussion of Dickinson's spirituality." --Harold Bloom, Genius" . . . a truly literary study in the largest, most humane, sense. Instead of subjecting poems to the... -
Uplands: New Poems by A R Ammons 9780393043303
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.84The critic Harold Bloom writes, "With the publication of his Selected Poems (1968), soon after turning forty, A. R. Ammons quietly demonstrated a unique and central position in recent American poetry... -
Barefoot by Kevin Hart 9780268103132
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.07Barefoot is Kevin Hart's eighth collection of poems; it is rich in elegies, meditations on lost love, and celebrations of new love. The title speaks of mourning, pilgrimage, and the direct sensuous... -
Deconstruction: Theory and Practice by Christopher Norris 9780415280105
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £29.99Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris... -
The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by Bentley Layton 9780334026259
Booksplease Price: £36.75Bentley Layton's The Gnostic Scriptures is the one indispensable book for the understanding of Gnosis and Gnosticism. No other translations are within light-years of Layton's in eloquence, pathos,... -
1920 Diary by Isaac Babel 9780300093131
Booksplease Price: £25.26This diary by the famed twentieth-century Russian writer recounts Babel's experiences with the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. The basis for Red Cavalry, Babel's best-known... -
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire Gore Vidal 9781902636382
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military... -
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare 9781804470947
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.62Long before Shakespeare's name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be published by the same quill that gave the world Macbeth,... -
Deconstruction without Derrida by Martin McQuillan 9781472534309
Booksplease Price: £37.81The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's texts into new spaces and creative readings. In Deconstruction without Derrida,... -
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William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" by Ann Thompson 9780746311417
Booksplease Price: £21.27One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date... -
The Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory by Susan A. Handelman 9780873955775
Booksplease Price: £26.07In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures of thought and patterns of organizing reality,... -
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire by Gore Vidal 9781902636382 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military...