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Old English Poems and Riddles by Chris McCully
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Chris 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... -
Selected Poems: Thomas Chatterton by Thomas Chatterton 9781857546927
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Wordsworth'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... -
The Vampyre and Other Writings John William Polidori 9781857547870
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.12'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... -
Metropolitan Writings by William Hazlitt 9781857547580
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60William 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... -
Border Ballads by James Reed 9781857547108
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62This 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61This 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... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9781847770721
Booksplease Price: £14.42Inspired 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 by Sir Thomas Wyatt
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.91Sir 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: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.91Hugh 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: £13.81Peter 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... -
Selected Poems: John Gay by John Gay 9781857547023
Booksplease Price: £9.21John 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... -
Poems: Volume I by Yves Bonnefoy 9781784100759
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98France'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... -
Selected Poems: William Morris by William Morris 9780856359262
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"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... -
Selected Writings: William Tyndale by William Tyndale
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60William 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: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60In 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: George Crabbe by George Crabbe 9780856356216
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780856356216Author George CrabbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
Tribute to Freud by H. D. 9780856355998
Booksplease Price: £11.60Bringing together "Writing on the Wall," composed some ten years after H.D's stay in Vienna, and "Advent," a journal she kept at the time of her analysis there, Tribute to Freud offers a rare glimpse... -
Centenary Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa 9781857547245
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.96'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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60The 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... -
Northborough Sonnets by John Clare 9781857541984
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59John 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... -
Hell and After: Four early English-language poets of Australia by Francis MacNamara 9781857547856
Booksplease Price: £21.57The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who... -
New Collected Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner 9781857549478
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.61The first "Collected Poems" of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was published by Carcanet in 1982. Since then, more of her work has come to light, including some of the most moving and personal... -
Hermetic Definition by H. D. 9781784105242
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62HD (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... -
Selected Poems by Henry Howard 9781857546996
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Henry 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... -
Severn and Somme by Ivor Gurney 9781857543483
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78This 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 -
Satyrica by Petronius Arbiter 9781857547832
Booksplease Price: £17.68Petronius lived during the reign of the notorious emperor Nero, a writer in a decadent empire, and in Frederic Raphael he finds a translator who brings his words vividly alive. Petronius' Rome is not... -
Selected Poems Robert Henryson 9780856353017
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Robert 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... -
Carmina Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781847772596
Booksplease Price: £27.63Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. Carmina captures in English both the... -
Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limning: Together with A More Compendious Discourse Concerning Ye Art of Limning by Edward Norgate 9780856359712
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'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... -
Selected Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid 9781857547566
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57This selection explores the diversity of Hugh MacDiarmid's work, from delicate lyrics derived from the Scots ballad tradition to fierce polemic. "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle" and "On a Raised... -
Collected Poems and Plays by Wyndham Lewis 9781857547153
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.67At 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... -
John Newman: Selected Writings to 1845 John Henry Newman 9781857545456
Booksplease Price: £14.76This 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... -
Midsummer Cushion by John Clare 9780856359408
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.61Clare records that it was 'a very old custom among villagers in summer time to stick a piece of greensward full of field flowers and place it as an ornament in their cottages which ornaments are... -
Epigrams and the Forest by Ben Jonson 9781857547054
Booksplease Price: £14.37Ben 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: £14.54Ford 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... -
Selected Poems by Charlotte Smith 9781857547252
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.24After 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... -
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Selected Poems: Christina G. Rossetti by Christina Rossetti 9780856355332 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £2.61Christina 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... -
Select Meditations by Thomas Traherne 9781847770714
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57"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... -
Anatomy of Melancholy: A Selection by Robert Burton 9781857546507
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60Robert 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... -
Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees by Hope Mirrlees 9781847770752
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris (1920), a journey through a day in post First World War Paris, was considered by Virginia...