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Love Poems by Peter Washington
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the... -
Harbinger: Poems by Shelley Puhak 9780063233966
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233966Author Shelley PuhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry by Andrew D. Morrison 9780521201056
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.64This text re-examines the relationship of Hellenistic poetry to Archaic poetry. It demonstrates how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius develop their primary narrators or main narrative voices - a... -
Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection by Thea S. Thorsen 9783110630596
RRP: £114.50Booksplease Price: £105.68It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed 'romantic' or 'true' did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this... -
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century by Robert Aldrich
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the... -
The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness by Catherine Maxwell 9780719080845
Booksplease Price: £23.54This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness... -
Heroides by Ovid
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers... -
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted... -
Pythagoras: A Life Peter Gorman 9781041107880
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04First published in 1979, Pythagoras aims to make available to a wide range of readers the events of Pythagoras's life and his theories, and to present him not primarily as a mathematician and... -
Literature and Gender by Lizbeth Goodman
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.82Literature and Gender combines an introduction to and an anthology of literary texts which powerfully demonstrate the relevance of gender issues to the study of literature. The volume covers all... -
H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines by Eileen Gregory 9780521430258
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.84H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): a lifelong engagement with hellenic literature, mythology and art. H... -
Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good by Leonidas K. Cheliotis 9780230210394
Booksplease Price: £46.28Which practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is it truly progressive? In addressing these questions, this book brings... -
Else Lasker-Schuler: The Broken World by Hans W. Cohn 9780521168366
Booksplease Price: £32.12Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945) was a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment of her poetry in English. The aim of the author, a... -
The Infinite Moment: Greek Poetry by Sam Hamill 9780811211994
Booksplease Price: £9.78The Infinite Moment is a personal selection made by a poet known for his elegant translations from several languages, Chinese, Japanese, Estonian, Latin, and now ancient Greek. Drawing from the... -
A Heritage of Her Own?: Allusion and Tradition in Female-Authored Poetry of the Hellenistic Age by Amy Martin 9781800799080
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.67This book presents a renewed consideration of women’s poetry in ancient Greek literature by offering a detailed analysis of the works attributed to female poets from the Hellenistic era. These scarce... -
Jason and the Argonauts by Apollonius of Rhodes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Now in a riveting new verse translation Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica), is the only surviving full account of Jason's voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided... -
The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry by Ellen Greene
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A groundbreaking examination of power relations in Roman elegyIn recent decades, scholars in the field of classics have paid increasing attention to gender and sexual politics in Latin elegiac poetry... -
Garden of Dreams by Sarah Quartel 9780193568242
Booksplease Price: £4.12for SSAA unaccompanied Garden of Dreams sets of fragments of text by Sappho, translated by Arthur Sanders Way and A. S. Kline. Sarah Quartel has used cross-rhythms, syncopation, and flowing melodic... -
Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82From ancient Greece and Rome (Sappho, Marcellus Empiricus) to the current Covid 19 crisis (Eavan Boland's 'Quarantine'), poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human... -
Rhododendrons by Lin Hawthorne 9781780193649
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 135 beautiful photographs. It is a handy, practical guide to growing and caring for... -
Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer's Classical Plays: Figuring the Female by Alicia E. Ellis 9781793631718
Booksplease Price: £86.43In this provocative work, Alicia E. Ellis provides readings of Franz Grillparzer's dramas as proto-feminist formulations of female figures who refuse the gendered constraints of the ancient world... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation by Sherod Santos 9780393329155
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £15.56Sherod Santos's new translation of classical poems answers Rosetti's mandate that "the only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation...with one more... -
Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection by Thea S. Thorsen 9783111255798
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.32It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed 'romantic' or 'true' did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this... -
Greek Mythologies - Antiquity and Surrealism by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis 9780983532217
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £45.30The hegemonization of European thought by Greek antiquity was famously questioned by major representatives of the avant-garde. However, this is only one ideological dimension of the extraordinarily... -
A Letter to a Young Poet Virginia Woolf 9781804471203
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.62'So long as you and you and you, venerable and ancient representatives of Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley, are aged precisely twenty-three and propose... to spend the next fifty years of your lives... -
The Story of Sapho by Madeleine de Scudery
Booksplease Price: £24.80Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701) has not been treated kindly by the literary establishment. Yet her multivolume... -
The Country Gambler by Erica McAlpine 9781848614819
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"It's rare to open a first book that combines beauty and authority: Erica McAlpine's The Country Gambler is such a book. McAlpine is a dazzlingly accomplished formalist...A powerful intelligence... -
Slaves and Other Objects Page duBois 9780226167893
Booksplease Price: £28.55Page duBois, a classicist known for her daring and originality, turns in this book to one of the most troubling subjects in the study of antiquity: the indispensability of slaves in ancient Greece... -
Slaves and Other Objects by Page DuBois 9780226167879
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Page duBois, a classicist known for her daring and originality, turns in this book to one of the most troubling subjects in the study of antiquity: the indispensability of slaves in ancient Greece... -
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture by Marilyn B. Skinner 9781444349863
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £39.11This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual... -
Women and Humor in Classical Greece by Laurie O'Higgins 9780521822534
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Women and Humor in Classical Greece examines the role of women as producers of joking speech, especially within cults of Demeter. This speech, sometimes known as aischrologia, had considerable weight... -
Little Black Classics Box Set by 9780141398877
RRP: £180.00Booksplease Price: £84.74GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015The irresistibly collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classics In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the 80 books in the Little Black... -
Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers by Lori Marso
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key... -
A Pocketful of Poems by Nikki Grimes 9781328497963
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328497963Author Nikki GrimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Clarion BooksPublisher... -
The Greeks: Lost Civilizations by Philip Matyszak 9781780239002
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24This is ancient Greece - but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East, and that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the... -
A Boat to Lesbos: and other poems Nouri Al-Jarrah 9780995636941
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A Boat to Lesbos is a powerful and compelling epic poem, written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island... -
Women and Humor in Classical Greece by Laurie O'Higgins 9780521037907
Booksplease Price: £32.12Women and Humor in Classical Greece examines the role of women as producers of joking speech, especially within cults of Demeter. This speech, sometimes known as aischrologia, had considerable weight... -
Selected Poems by Mary Robinson 9781848619180
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62The range of Robinson's poetic work is astonishing: from impassioned lyrics to 'Lyrical Tales', from sonnets to odes, from political poetry, reacting both for and against the French Revolution, to... -
Homer’s Iliad: In a Classical Translation Jeffrey M. Duban 9781912992652
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £16.96The Iliad presents superhuman heroes and superhuman rage, brutal death, unbounded sorrow, the craving for revenge, the shortness of life, the glory quest, and, ultimately, reconciliation and... -
Blue Hour: Poems by Carolyn Forche 9780060099138
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060099138Author Carolyn ForcheFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins...