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Wordsworth's Fun by Matthew Bevis
Booksplease Price: £24.80"The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage.... He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote-like." These words from... -
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Bevis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that... -
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry by Matthew Bevis 9780199576463
RRP: £157.50Booksplease Price: £116.21'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read... -
Life Lessons from Byron by Matthew Bevis 9781447245742
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Born in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic... -
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry by Matthew Bevis 9780198713715
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £36.82'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read... -
Byron: Great Thinkers on Modern Life by Matthew Bevis 9781605988085
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605988085Author Matthew BevisFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus... -
The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce by Matthew Bevis 9780199593224
Booksplease Price: £56.67'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873). The... -
The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce by Matthew Bevis 9780199253999
Booksplease Price: £25.13'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873). The... -
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 3: George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson by their Contemporaries by Ralph Pite
Booksplease Price: £103.19Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense Anna Barton 9781399557382
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £31.05The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense is the first comprehensive treatment of its subject across historical periods, languages, cultures, and theoretical frameworks. Written by scholars in a range of... -
Edward Lear by James Williams 9780746312223
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.16Edward Lear wrote a well-known autobiographical poem that begins 'How pleasant to know Mr Lear!' But how well do we really know him? On the one hand he is, in John Ashbery's words, 'one of the most... -
Edward Lear by James Williams 9780746312216
Booksplease Price: £73.80Edward Lear wrote a well-known autobiographical poem that begins 'How pleasant to know Mr Lear!' But how well do we really know him? On the one hand he is, in John Ashbery's words, 'one of the most... -
Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock 9781107030725
Booksplease Price: £118.38Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of his... -
On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word by Angela Leighton 9780199551934
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £33.00What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but... -
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu 9780199549580
RRP: £47.49Booksplease Price: £47.08Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and... -
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock 9781107031869
Booksplease Price: £118.38Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of his... -
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography by Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Booksplease Price: £28.84This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to... -
Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum by Freya Johnston 9780199654345
Booksplease Price: £83.96Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In... -
Selected Letters of William Empson by John Haffenden 9780199286843
Booksplease Price: £60.51This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the... -
Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry by James Williams 9780198833796
Booksplease Price: £36.25Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved... -
The Revisionist & The Astropastorals by Douglas Crase
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations of the American landscape and Transcendental tradition. Out of print since 1987, The Revisionist has been enough in some opinions to... -
The Revisionist & The Astropastorals: Collected Poems by Douglas Crase 9781643620107
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.01MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book The Revisionist has still been enough in some... -
The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900 by Michael O'Neill 9780199653058
Booksplease Price: £52.79Drawn from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the title of this book suggests the cultural and literary persistence of the Romantic in the work of many British, American, and Irish poets since 1900... -
The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900 by Michael O'Neill 9780199299287
Booksplease Price: £115.15Drawn from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the title of this book suggests the cultural and literary persistence of the Romantic in the work of many British, American, and Irish poets since 1900... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.91In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886-1920 by Robert Frost 9780674057609
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.61One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his day. Although his poetry reached a wide audience, the private...