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A.E. Housman: A Reassessment by A. Holden 9780333658031
Booksplease Price: £90.56This is a collection of essays which shows that academic interest in Housman is still strong. There are contributions from the UK, the USA and Israel focusing on close readings, historical and... -
A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar by Chris Stray 9781472533609
Booksplease Price: £35.83A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated... -
A Shropshire Lad (Collins Classics) by A.E. Housman 9780008619992
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.77HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? First published in 1896,... -
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which... -
A.E. Housman - Hero of the Hidden Life by Edgar Vincent 9781783272419
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.64A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was an English classical scholar and poet who had an enormous influence on many British poets and musicians. A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a celebrated poet and the... -
Angry Dust: the Poetry of A.E. Housman; a Critical Essay by Oliver Robinson 9780371633984
Booksplease Price: £16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371633984Author Oliver RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage Philip Gardner 9781032888163
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.79First published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin... -
Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle by Jason David Hall 9781349467624
Booksplease Price: £46.74Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied... -
Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle by Jason David Hall 9781137348289
Booksplease Price: £46.28Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied... -
Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies by Martin Gardner 9781573929257
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.81Whether you love poetry or just don't get it, you will love these often hilarious poetic parodies. Martin Gardner has assembled his favourites, many by famous authors in their own right (Robert... -
Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850-1900 Brian Reade 9780415790895
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66The years between 1850 and 1900 were the vintage years of a discreet homosexual culture in England. In this period, educational, personal and foreign influences all contributed to the establishment... -
A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage Philip Gardner 9781032888149
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.20First published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951... -
Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Professor Norman Page 9780333803998
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political,... -
A E Housman: A Single Life by Martin Blocksidge 9781845198442
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £35.12A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a professional poet, always making quite clear that his... -
A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the... -
A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography by Professor Norman Page 9780333656013
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £43.51A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the... -
Inseparable Siblings: A Portrait of Clemence and Laurence Housman by Elizabeth Oakley 9781858584409
Booksplease Price: £14.21Clemence was a younger sister of A.E. Housman, classicist and poet. When, aged 22, she left her comfortable Victorian middleclass Worcestershire home to go to London to look after her rebellious,... -
Roman Britain by Edward H. Jones 9781138021594
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Roman Britain, first published in 1972, gives the young reader a vivid impression of the British Isles immediately preceding, during and after the Roman occupation, which lasted for 400 years. Using... -
Roman Britain by Edward H. Jones 9781138021570
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Roman Britain, first published in 1972, gives the young reader a vivid impression of the British Isles immediately preceding, during and after the Roman occupation, which lasted for 400 years. Using... -
A History of Shropshire - Volume X - Wenlock, Upper Corvedale, and the Stretton Hills by G.C. Baugh
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £93.48The history from early times to the 1980s of the 27 ancient parishes that formed the extensive ancient borough of Wenlock (corresponding to the estates and liberty of Wenlock priory) and the... -
A House of Air by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007136438
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination. Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer... -
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the... -
Perspectives on World War I Poetry by Robert C. Evans 9781472510211
Booksplease Price: £102.21Introducing students to the full range of critical approachesto the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of... -
Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves by Richard Perceval Graves 9781805140566
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22When beautiful heiress Nicky Samuel (1951-2019) left school at the age of 16, she was caught up in the world of Sixties London. Her first job was with Yoko Ono, and she soon fell in love with the... -
Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry: Discussions of the Modern Poetic Tradition from the Perspective of a Practicing Writer by James Dickey 9781570035289
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95Widely known as the winner of the 1966 National Book Award and author of the best-selling novel ""Deliverance"", James Dickey devoted himself as much to the critique of the modern literary tradition... -
Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Professor Norman Page 9780333720226
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political,... -
Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Professor Norman Page 9780312211738
Booksplease Price: £46.74Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political,... -
A Grecian Lad: A. E. Housman and the Classics Jennifer Ingleheart 9781350574717
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £66.59The first book to bring together A.E. Housman's poetry and classical scholarship, revealing the deep connections between the two. A Grecian Lad offers a study of classical allusion in A Shropshire... -
Beer, in So Many Words: The Best Writing on the Greatest Drink by Adrian Tierney-Jones 9780993291111
Booksplease Price: £13.01These days beer could not be more popular. New craft breweries open by the week; most pubs routinely serve several draught real ales; supermarkets stock an astonishing range of the best beers from... -
Promises, Promises by Adam Phillips
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new... -
Selected Poems of James Henry by James Henry 9781843510116
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.75Born in Dublin in 1798 and educated at Trinity College, James Henry was a controversially humane doctor, a passionate scholar of Virgilian manuscripts, and a lifelong interrogator of Christianity... -
Wroxeter: Ashes under Uricon: A Cultural and Social History of the Roman City by Roger H. White
Booksplease Price: £27.60Wroxeter: Ashes under Uricon offers a perspective on how people over time have viewed the abandoned Roman city of Wroxeter in Shropshire. It responds to three main artistic outputs relating to the... -
Marginal Comment: A Memoir Revisited by Sir K. J. Dover
Booksplease Price: £29.91Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its... -
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Si e: Libidinal Lives by Jane Ford
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siecle. At... -
10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator 1828 - 2020 by David Butterfield 9781912690817
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.31There is no journal with a livelier and richer history than The Spectator. As well as being the world's oldest current affairs magazine, none has been closer to spheres of power and influence in... -
Midnight Feasts: Tasty poems chosen by A.F. Harrold by A.F. Harrold
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The perfect Christmas gift for any food or poetry lover, this scrumptious illustrated hardback contains over 50 poems about every type of food imaginable. Food is the one thing that unites us all...