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Letters of Louis MacNeice by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $49.57Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek Mahon,... -
Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice by Louis MacNeice 9780198112457
Booksplease Price: $164.35Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightly regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century, but he was also a distinctive, gifted, and popular playwright. This unique selection of eight of... -
Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice by Louis MacNeice 9780198185253
Booksplease Price: $216.96This is the second of two collections of MacNeice's prose writings, prepared by Alan Heuser. The first, concentrating on his literary criticism, came out in 1987 (still available from OUP). The... -
Louis MacNeice: Poems Selected by Michael Longley by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25In 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... -
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $43.62In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain,... -
Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice 9780571234387
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record of the... -
Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice 9780571233816
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively... -
Louis MacNeice: In a Between World by Christopher Fauske 9781911024101
Booksplease Price: $141.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911024101Author Christopher FauskeFormat HardbackPage Count 175Imprint Irish Academic Press... -
The Cave of Making: The Poetry of Louis MacNeice by Robyn Marsack 9780198117322
Booksplease Price: $77.14The Cave of Making The Poetry of Louis MacNeiceReviewsHelps further establish the reputation of one of the best poets of the century. * Anthony Thwaite in Times Literary Supplement *Book... -
Spring Journal: after Louis MacNeice by Jonathan Gibbs 9781909585379
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585379Author Jonathan GibbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions -
The Untouchable by John Banville 9781035076802
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Inspired by the true story of Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five spy ring, The Untouchable is a beautifully crafted novel by John Banville, author of the Booker Prize-winning The Sea.Victor Maskell... -
Iceland Summer: Iceland Summer: Travels along the Ring Road by Kurt Caswell 9781595342690
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.30An island is a world out of time and place, separated by literal and figurative oceans, where the confines of reality are tenuous and magic may be possible. Iceland-with its relative isolation,... -
The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion by Tara Guissin-Stubbs 9783030532413
Booksplease Price: $176.59The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara... -
Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War by Anna Teekell 9780810137257
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, "the Emergency," Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for... -
W.H. Auden by John Haffenden 9780415852685
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as... -
British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond Beatriz Lopez 9781350412170
Booksplease Price: $59.55This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of... -
Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War by Anna Teekell
Booksplease Price: $167.52Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, "the Emergency," Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for... -
British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond Beatriz Lopez 9781350412132
Booksplease Price: $176.61This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of... -
Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1995 by Anthony Thwaite 9780582215115
Booksplease Price: $170.82This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that first... -
W.H. Auden by Tony Sharpe 9780415327367
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is not only widely studied and read, but has been... -
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780826407252
Booksplease Price: $67.94Goethe's masterpiece translated by the eminent English poet and translator Louis MacNeice.Book InformationISBN 9780826407252Author Victor LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Continuum... -
Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international... -
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 by W. H. Auden 9780691609317
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $188.82This volume contains Auden and Christopher Isherwood's dramatic extravaganzas The Dog Beneath the Skin, the Ascent of F 6, and On the Frontier. It also includes the two versions of Paid on Both... -
After Callimachus: Poems by Stephanie Burt 9780691180199
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and... -
After Callimachus: Poems by Stephanie Burt
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.30Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and... -
Auden's Apologies for Poetry by Lucy McDiarmid 9780691603797
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.59Common wisdom has it that when Auden left England for New York in January 1939, he had already written his best poems. He left behind (most critics believe) all the idealisms of the 1930s and all... -
Northern Irish Poetry: The American Connection by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews 9781349460960
Booksplease Price: $90.25Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study... -
Northern Irish Poetry: The American Connection by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews 9781137330383
Booksplease Price: $90.25Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study... -
Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale by Kenneth Muir 9780333088135
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $54.58This volume includes a helpful selection of early criticism as well as modern contributions on The Winter's Tale from Donald Stauffer, E.M.W. Tillyard, Ernest Schanzer, Inga-Stina Ewbank, S.L... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691144733
Booksplease Price: $39.80When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691234533
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.21Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life-and how he might guide yours, tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $147.24This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume V: Prose: 1963-1968 by W. H. Auden 9780691151717
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $146.27This fifth volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains his most personally revealing... -
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley 9780691136790
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91W. 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,... -
What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern Jed Rasula 9780691225791
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25A rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpieceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the... -
Robert Lowell: Life and Art by Steven Gould Axelrod
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected. Steven... -
What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern by Jed Rasula
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.00On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influenceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste... -
The Terrible Rain: The War Poets, 1939-45 by Brian Gardner 9780413150103
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.68THE TERRIBLE RAIN, a companion volume to Brian Gardner's anthology of the poetry of the First World War, UP THE LINE TO DEATH (978 0 413 59570 6), has established itself as a classic collection of... -
New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender by Stephen Spender
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.04Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fear and paranoia of a continent heading towards war...