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Severn and Somme by Ivor Gurney 9781857543483
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79This volume includes Gurney's early small volumes of verse, "Severn and Somme" (1917) and "War's Embers" (1919).Book InformationISBN 9781857543483Author Ivor GurneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156 -
Selected Poems: John Gay by John Gay 9781857547023
Booksplease Price: $12.34John Gay (1685-1732) was part of the "association of wits" that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. But though Gay's exposure of weakness and folly is no less acute than theirs, his wit is... -
Selected Poems: William Morris by William Morris 9780856359262
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17"If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry he had better shut up", says William Morris (1834-1896). He was a brilliant designer, a political thinker and one of the most popular... -
Halcyon by Gabriele D'Annunzio 9781857546934
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938), the most influential and controversial Italian poet of the 20th century, published his masterpiece "Halcyon" in 1903. It is a carefully organized sequence of 88... -
Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limning: Together with A More Compendious Discourse Concerning Ye Art of Limning by Edward Norgate 9780856359712
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99'To proceed & beginne wth ye Coullers, Whitt ffor its Virgin puritie is the most Excellent To proceed and begin with the colours: white for its virgin purity is the most excellent, viz. ceruse and... -
Collected Poems and Plays by Wyndham Lewis 9781857547153
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.66At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett. This volume... -
Selected Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.26Sir Thomas Wyatt, "the first great English lyric poet", remains one of the most popular writer's of Henry VIII's court, and the most romantic, given his entanglement with Anne Boleyn, which resulted... -
Selected Poems by Harriet Harvey Wood
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.26Hugh MacDiarmid hailed William Dunbar (1461?-1520?) as "in many ways the most modern, as he is the most varied, of Scottish poets". His verve, wit, metrical skill, malice and elegiac power made him... -
Laughing at the King: Selected Poems by Peter Pindar 9781857549379
Booksplease Price: $18.51Peter Pindar (1738-1819), the pen name of John Wolcot, dared to ridicule the foibles, corruptions and misdemeanours of King George III and those in power in his kingdom. His satire was merciless, but... -
Poems: Volume I by Yves Bonnefoy 9781784100759
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.07France's greatest poet of the last half century, Yves Bonnefoy wrote many books of poetry and poetic prose, as well as celebrated critical essays on literature and art (to which a second volume will... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9781847770721
Booksplease Price: $19.32Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, by the language of journalism and spam emails, Philip Terry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of... -
Selected Poems: Arthur Hugh Clough by Arthur Hugh Clough 9781857547184
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Asked what problems most perplexed "young men at present" Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) replied "a growing sense of discrepancy". His wry and wise poetry explores the tensions of a time of radical... -
John Newman: Selected Writings to 1845 John Henry Newman 9781857545456
Booksplease Price: $19.78This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the 19th century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure... -
Epigrams and the Forest by Ben Jonson 9781857547054
Booksplease Price: $19.26Ben Jonson is overshadowed as a dramatist by Shakespeare, his great contemporary. As a poet, however, he stands high. His polished urbanity, direct expression and classicism have been especially... -
Selected Poems: Ford Madox Ford by Ford Madox Ford 9781857547139
Booksplease Price: $19.48Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) published 13 volumes of poetry between 1893 and 1936 - crucial transitional years in the evolution of modern poetry. His early poems were written under the shadow of the... -
Hermetic Definition by H. D. 9781784105242
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89HD (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) wrote Hermetic Definition at the height of her poetic powers. With her celebrated War Trilogy ('The Walls Do Not Fall', 'Tribute to the Angels', and 'Flowering of the... -
Old English Poems and Riddles by Chris McCully
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Chris McCully brings Old English poetry to life with exhilarating immediacy. Here is the earliest surviving English poem, "Caedmon's Hymn", as well as one of the last poems to be written in the... -
Select Meditations by Thomas Traherne 9781847770714
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.50"Select Meditations" is among the earliest works of the poet and mystic Thomas Traherne (1637-74). Written shortly after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the manuscript was not discovered until... -
Border Ballads by James Reed 9781857547108
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89This collection of poems rooted in the wild and beautiful lands that lie between England and Scotland describes a traditionally lawless area whose inhabitants owed allegiance first to kin and laird... -
Collected Poems and Verse of the Austen Family by David Selwyn 9781857542639
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20This volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna... -
Selected Poems Robert Henryson 9780856353017
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99Robert Henryson is the greatest of the English fabulists. His master may have been Aesop, but the voice that speaks the 'Moral Fables'is distinctively that of his place - Scotland - and his chosen... -
Northborough Sonnets by John Clare 9781857541984
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17John Clare was a practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. The sonnets he produced in the last years before his institutionalization in 1837, first at High Beech and then... -
Metropolitan Writings by William Hazlitt 9781857547580
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86William Hazlitt (1778-1830), that most engaging of English essayists, is provocatively and congenially at home in this new collection of his city essays that spark with urbane wit and gossip... -
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Selected Poems: Christina G. Rossetti by Christina Rossetti 9780856355332 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $3.78Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her "Goblin Market and Other Poems" (1862) having been - as if by accident - the writing from that group which first caught... -
Selected Writings: William Tyndale by William Tyndale
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86William Tyndale (c.1494-1536) gave the English people their first printed New Testament which he translated from the orginal Greek, and half of the Old Testament, which he translated from the orginal... -
Liber Amoris by William Hazlitt 9781857548570
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86In 1822 William Hazlitt, forty-four years old and married, was both tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's nineteen-year-old daughter. "Liber Amoris" is the chronicle of that... -
Selected Poems: Thomas Chatterton by Thomas Chatterton 9781857546927
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with... -
Selected Poems: George Crabbe by George Crabbe 9780856356216
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780856356216Author George CrabbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
Centenary Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa 9781857547245
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $20.05'Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying ...mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is... -
Cottage Tales by John Clare 9781857540321
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54The first literary experiences of John Clare (1793-1864) included the tales handed down by word of mouth in his native village, and as a mature poet he reworked them in his narrative verse. This... -
Selected Poems by Charlotte Smith 9781857547252
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.36After years of literary neglect, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) is now being recognized as a major poet and modern figure whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience... -
Selected Poems by Henry Howard 9781857546996
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was known to his contemporaries as "the most accomplished gentleman of his age", noble, learned and elegant. A man of his time, at the centre of the dangerous power games... -
The Vampyre and Other Writings by John William Polidori 9781857547870
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.24'June 18. Began my ghost story after tea. Twelve o' clock, really began to talk ghostly. [Lord Byron] repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and... -
Collected Poems: Mervyn Peake by Mervyn Peake 9781857549713
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86It is forty years since the death of Mervyn Peake (1911-68), the author of the much-loved Gormenghast novels. To mark the anniversary this first comprehensive edition of Peake's poetry is published... -
Anatomy of Melancholy: A Selection by Robert Burton 9781857546507
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) has cast a long, shimmering shadow, on Milton (L'Allegro and Il Penseroso in particular), on the wits of Queen Anne's reign and the beginning of... -
Champion of the Poor: Political Poetry and Prose by John Clare 9781857544237
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.16A Champion for the Poor brings together for the first time John Clare's longest poem, The Parish - in a new and corrected text - and his forceful satires 'The Hue & Cry' and 'The Summons'. Some... -
Book of Repulsive Women by Djuna Barnes 9781857547078
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains... -
Poems - Alain Fournier by Anthony Costello 9781784103125
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Alain-Fournier's poems, while relatively few, are one of the small pearls washed up in the maelstrom of early twentieth-century France. Best known for his novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a posthumous... -
John Clare by Himself by John Clare 9781857542882
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $19.30This text gathers together all of John Clare's autobiographical writing. The book extends, corrects and replaces the "Autobiographical Writings of John Clare", edited by Eric Robinson (Oxford, 1983)... -
Collected Poems of Robert Southwell by Robert Southwell
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86This book is a complete edition of the authentic poems, English and Latin, of the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S. Robert Southwell, offering new texts based on the very manuscripts which were...