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Selected Poems by Du Bellay 9780192847997
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'Live now and listen, do not wait in vain Until tomorrow; pluck life's rose today.' Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and leaders of the... -
Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard by Norman R. Shapiro 9780226750521
Booksplease Price: £24.80Renowned translator Norman R. Shapiro here presents fresh English versions of poems by three of Western literature's most gifted and prolific poets-the French Renaissance writers Clement Marot,... -
The Poet's Odyssey: Joachim Du Bellay and the Antiquitez de Rome by George Hugo Tucker 9780198158653
Booksplease Price: £93.34The Poet's Odyssey traces the artistic development of one of the major poets of the French Renaissance, Joachim Du Bellay (?1522-60), showing how he differed from his contemporaries (in particular... -
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature by Andrew Hui 9780823273355
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.20The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material... -
Textual Spaces: French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage by Richard E. Keatley 9780271081298
RRP: £82.99Booksplease Price: £79.45In Textual Spaces, Richard E. Keatley examines how French travelers experienced, consumed, and represented Italian space during the early modern period. This study digs beneath the facade of... -
Textual Spaces: French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage by Richard E. Keatley 9780271081304
Booksplease Price: £41.82In Textual Spaces, Richard E. Keatley examines how French travelers experienced, consumed, and represented Italian space during the early modern period. This study digs beneath the facade of... -
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature by Andrew Hui
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material... -
![Joachim du Bellay: "The Regrets," with "The Antiquities of Rome," Three Latin Elegies, and "The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language." A Bilingual Edition by Richard Helgerson 9780812239416](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2094109/2093566/9780812239416__26073.1708777483.jpg?c=1 "Joachim du Bellay: "The Regrets," with "The Antiquities of Rome," Three Latin Elegies, and "The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language." A Bilingual Edition by Richard Helgerson 9780812239416")
Joachim du Bellay: "The Regrets," with "The Antiquities of Rome," Three Latin Elegies, and "The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language." A Bilingual Edition by Richard Helgerson 9780812239416
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94To the Reader: This little book, reader, that we give you now has at once the taste of gall and honey mixed with salt. If it pleases your palate, come as a guest. This feast has been prepared for... -
Edmund Spenser: Essays on Culture and Allegory by Jennifer Klein Morrison
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent... -
Rabelais's Radical Farce: Late Medieval Comic Theater and Its Function in Rabelais E. Bruce Hayes 9781032928135
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the understanding of the theater of farce and its literary... -
Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History by Neil Kenny
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural HistoryAbout the AuthorNeil KennyBook InformationISBN 9780367603281Author Neil KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515-65 by Richard Cooper 9780367882204
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Making use of new and original material based on firsthand sources, this book interrogates the vogue for collecting, discussing, depicting, and putting to political and cultural use Roman antiquities... -
Figurations of France: Literary Nation Building in Times of Crisis (1550-1650) by Marcus Keller 9781644531365
Booksplease Price: £38.42In Figurations of France: Literary Nation-Building in Times of Crisis (1550-1650), Marcus Keller explores the often indirect and subtle ways in which key texts of early modern French literature, from... -
The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England by Hassan Melehy 9781032569901
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Examining both familiar and underappreciated texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that early modern French and English writers conceived with both their classical predecessors and... -
A History of Western Literature: From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry by John M. Cohen
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.67This book begins in a narrow territory, strictly Western, and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry, plays, novels, and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and... -
Renaissance Latin Verse: An Anthology by Alessandro Perosa 9780807897492
Booksplease Price: £77.83In a time when educated men spoke and wrote in Latin as easily as their native tongues, a huge volume of Latin verse was published, not only by scholars but by men in every walk of life. This... -
A Sonnet from Carthage: Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of Sixteenth-Century Europe by Richard Helgerson 9780812240047
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that "language has always been the companion of empire." Taking as his touchstone a wonderfully suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega... -
An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present Day by Geoffrey Brereton 9781032253015
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £30.96The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a series of studies of the work and personality of individual poets from Villon to the present day. Each chapter is primarily concerned... -
Character & Culture: Essays on East and West by Booker T. Washington 9781138520257
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.67Character and Culture by Irving Babbitt is the latest volume in the Library of Conservative Thought. Babbitt was the leader of the twentieth-century intellectual and cultural movement called American... -
Character & Culture: Essays on East and West by Irving Babbitt 9781560008064
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Character and Culture by Irving Babbitt is the latest volume in the Library of Conservative Thought. Babbitt was the leader of the twentieth-century intellectual and cultural movement called American... -
The Sonnet by John Fuller 9781138283251
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78First published in 1972, this book examines the sonnet, one of the most complex yet accessible of verse forms. It traces its history, concentrating primarily on its technical development, and fully... -
The Sonnet by John Fuller
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23First published in 1972, this book examines the sonnet, one of the most complex yet accessible of verse forms. It traces its history, concentrating primarily on its technical development, and fully... -
Spenser's International Style by David Scott Wilson-Okamura 9781107038202
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Why did Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Why did he affect the vocabulary of medieval poets such as Chaucer? Is there, as centuries... -
Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation by SarahGlendon Lyons
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to explore the possibilities of a secular model of enchantment and to complicate the... -
Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets J B Leishman 9780415612241
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37First published in 1961. This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers - Pindar,... -
Spenser's International Style by David Scott Wilson-Okamura 9781107559431
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Why did Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Why did he affect the vocabulary of medieval poets such as Chaucer? Is there, as centuries... -
Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation 1489-1556 by A. F. Pollard
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23Published in 1965: It has been maintained by an eminent scholar recently dead that the chief content of modern history is the emancipation of conscience from the control of authority. From that point... -
Translation/History/Culture: A Sourcebook Andre Lefevere 9781138006645
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The most important and productive statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s are collected in this book. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over... -
Reveries of Community: French Epic in the Age of Henri IV, 1572-1616 by Katherine Maynard 9780810135833
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Reveries of Community reconsiders the role of epic poetry during the French Wars of Religion, the series of wars between Catholics and Protestants that dominated France between 1562 and 1598. Critics... -
Poems of Rome Karl Kirchwey 9781841598116
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city -... -
The Gallo-Roman Muse: Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France by Dorothy Gabe Coleman 9780521158480
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35It is well known in a general way that sixteenth-century French literature looked for its models towards Greece and Rome, but the topic is usually left there. This 1979 book begins with a... -
Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy by Karen Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to... -
Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth-Century France: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Quainton by Elizabeth Vinestock
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61These essays written to celebrate the distinguished career of Renassiance scholar, Professor Malcolm Quainton, confirm the idea that the sixteenth-century in France was deeply marked by conflict, but... -
Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World by Sjoerd Levelt
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.27This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea - or... -
Mimesis by Matthew Potolsky 9780415700306
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95A topic that has become increasingly central to the study of art, performance and literature, the term mimesis has long been used to refer to the relationship between an image and its 'real' original... -
Walter Pater: The Critical Heritage by R. M. Seiler
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81The 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 Spenser Encyclopedia A.C. Hamilton 9780415755610
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.34'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers ElizabethainsEdmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia... -
Imagination: A Study in the History of Ideas John Cocking 9780415862080
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continues... -
Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body Joyce Kelley 9780367175771
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel... -
Mimesis by Matthew Potolsky
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.93A topic that has become increasingly central to the study of art, performance and literature, the term mimesis has long been used to refer to the relationship between an image and its 'real' original...