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Twenty Questions by J. D. McClatchy
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.62In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays... -
Poems Of The Sea J D McClatchy 9781841597461
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids,... -
Division of Spoils by J. D. McClatchy 9781900072656
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'Division of Spoils', a selection of J.D.McClatchy's poems published over the past two decades, introduces British readers to the work of one of America's most distinguished poets.Book... -
Four Seasons by J. D. McClatchy 9781841597812
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.12Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson and Thoreau; from Keats, Blake and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes and Amy Clampitt. Here are... -
Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems by J. D. McClatchy 9780804168755
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168755Author J. D. McClatchyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher... -
Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation by J. D. McClatchy 9780393066098
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.73A landmark event in the world of music, Mozart's seven major librettos have finally been translated in verse with a sparkling poetic quality that matches the magnificence of the originals. Beginning... -
Sweet Theft: A Poet's Commonplace Book by J. D. McClatchy 9781619029088
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619029088Author J. D. McclatchyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets by J. D. McClatchy
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.68What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American... -
Poets of the Civil War: (American Poets Project #15) by J. D. McClatchy 9781931082761
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.88Writers on both sides of the American Civil War "brought to the crisis" (in editor J. D. McClatchys' words) "poetry's unique ability to stir the emotions, to freeze the moment, to sweep the scene... -
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems J D McClatchy 9781841597454
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude... -
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse by John Hollander
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty... -
Hurricane Lamp: Poems by Turner Cassity 9780226096155
Booksplease Price: £21.99"With my eyes closed, I might have guessed a collaboration between William Empson and Noel Coward. But of course no one could have made up Turner Cassity but himself. The man is a wizard. In... -
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace 9780691119816
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of... -
Happy Hour by Alan Shapiro 9780226750293
Booksplease Price: £21.99"Within his deliberately narrowed range Mr. Shapiro has cultivated a new generosity of detail and insight. This is especially important in the longer poems here, narratives of considerable power... -
Fairfield Porter: Selected Masterworks by John Wilmerding
Booksplease Price: £49.63A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expres- sionism, Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) painted himself, his family, and friends in New York City, in Southampton, Long Island, and on an... -
Between the Chains by Turner Cassity 9780226096162
Booksplease Price: £90.67"With my eyes closed, I might have guessed a collaboration between William Empson and Noel Coward," J. D. McClatchy has said of Turner Cassity's poems. Cassity's new collection turns an icy... -
The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal by Hugo von Hofmannsthal 9780691129099
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £38.05Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has... -
Ned Rorem Reader by Ned Rorem 9780300089844
Booksplease Price: £54.04Ned Rorem, composer and writer, is both a gifted memoirist and one of our most acerbic cultural commentators. This anthology of his musings on music, people, and life surveys the full range of his... -
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley 9780691136790
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes,... -
Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War by Andrew N. Rubin 9780691154152
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural... -
Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 by Eavan Boland 9780393308228
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.06"[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of... -
The Best American Poetry 1995 by David Lehman 9780684801513
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise,... -
Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings (LOA #224) by Thornton Wilder 9781598531466
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.68"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town... -
Counter-Amores by Jennifer Clarvoe
Booksplease Price: £24.80"Counter-Amores I.2". "Proof". Than brandished fire yet will I prove more strong - I burn unshaken, burn and die day-long. The hooked fish, torn, must learn to slip the bait Teasing the hook let go... -
Under Sleep by Daniel Hall 9780226313320
Booksplease Price: £26.10Then you looked up vaguely or you didn't - even the memory is dying. Then your whole body breathed out, and the argument ended. Heaven surfaced about you like a glass tabletop, hard and cold... -
A Map of the Night by David Wagoner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34David Wagoner's wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends... -
Century of the Death of the Rose: Selected Poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade by Jorge Carrera Andrade 9781603060233
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.60By the close of the twentieth century, the brilliant poets that had emerged from the Americas included Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro, and Octavio Paz. To this list must... -
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry by Wes Davis 9780674072220
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.37Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation... -
Why Poetry Matters by Jay Parini 9780300151466
Booksplease Price: £14.86A brief, passionate book about the nature of poetry and its use in the world Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a... -
Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (LOA #172) by Thornton Wilder
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £25.35Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilder's work for the stage ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career as a dramatist... -
Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928 - Expanded Paperback Edition by W. H. Auden
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90You know the terror that for poets lurks Beyond the ferry when to Minos brought. Poets must utter their Collected Works, Including Juvenilia...--from "Letter to Lord Byron" (1936) Regardless of how... -
On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell 9780674970823
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.79"This is a book for anyone," Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand...