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Tony Harrison Plays 6: Hecuba; Fram; Iphigenia in Crimea by Tony Harrison
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.32Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. The book contains Harrison's translation of Euripides's Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the... -
v. Tony Harrison 9780906427972
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.72Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he... -
The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics,... -
Tony Harrison Plays 1: The Mysteries: v.1: The Mystery Plays by Tony Harrison 9780571197071
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This first collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage is made up of his masterly adaptations of the medieval cycle of The Mystery Plays.Includes The Nativity , The Passion and Doomsday , with... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241974353
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness... -
Selected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241964842
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of... -
Collected Film Poetry by Tony Harrison
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Containing: Arctic Paradise (previously unpublished), Loving Memory (The Muffled Bells, Mimmo Perrella Non e Piu, Cheating the Void, Letters in the Rock), The Blasphemers' Banquet, The Gaze of the... -
Snake Catcher by Tony Harrison 9781922129406
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922129406Author Tony HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Melbourne BooksPublisher... -
Tony Harrison and the Holocaust by Antony Rowland 9780853235163
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.12This book argues that Tony Harrison's poetry is barbaric. It revisits one of the most misquoted passages of twentieth-century philosophy: Theodor Adorno's apparent dismissal of post-Holocaust poetry... -
Tony Harrison and the Classics by Sandie Byrne 9780198861072
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £93.71Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance of Tony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his... -
Tony Harrison: Loiner by Sandie Byrne 9780198184300
Booksplease Price: £104.57Tony Harrison: Loiner is published to celebrate the poet and playwright Tony Harrison's sixtieth birthday through an exploration of his work, including his best-known poem v.. Harrison (1937- ) has... -
New Light on Tony Harrison by Edith Hall 9780197266519
Booksplease Price: £47.30New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in... -
Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism by Edith Hall 9781350194588
Booksplease Price: £33.84This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical... -
Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism by Edith Hall 9781474299336
Booksplease Price: £90.57Longlisted for the 2022 Runciman AwardThis is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his... -
Men's Health: An Introduction for Nurses and Health Professionals by Tony Harrison 9780443059193
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Rimbaud of Leeds: The Political Character of Tony Harrison's Poetry by Christine Regan 9781604979275
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £79.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604979275Author Christine ReganFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria... -
Constructing Identity: Continuity, Otherness and Revolt in the Poetry of Tony Harrison by Agata Handley 9783631658819
RRP: £43.85Booksplease Price: £39.77The author analyzes the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison's work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the... -
Constructing Identity in the Poetry of Tony Harrison: Revised and Expanded Edition by Agata Handley 9783631837450
RRP: £51.20Booksplease Price: £46.10When, in 1948, Tony Harrison entered Leeds Grammar School as a scholarship boy, he found himself, as Richard Hoggart saw, "at the friction point of two cultures". His schooling introduced... -
I Want to Be Free by Tonia Harrison 9781634178396
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634178396Author Tonia HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher... -
The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold by Antony Harrison
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural... -
Christina Rossetti in Context by Antony Harrison 9780807842119
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These... -
The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold by Antony Harrison 9780821418994
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Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology by Antony Harrison 9780813928401
Booksplease Price: £26.12Antony Harrison's approach is quite special within the field of Victorian poetry. He resists treating poems as purely aesthetic objects; instead, he sees them as cultural artifacts and, as such, as... -
Victorian Women Poets by Tess Cosslett 9780582276499
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £55.61Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina... -
A Sociological Approach to Poetry Translation: Modern European Poet-Translators by Jacob S. D. Blakesley 9780367732707
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume provides an in-depth comparative study of translation practices and the role of the poet-translator across different countries and in so doing, demonstrates the need for poetry... -
No Dialect Please, You're a Poet: English Dialect in Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries Claire Helie 9781032240756
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is... -
Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Graham MacPhee
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.41Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identity Graham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other... -
The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott by M. Thurston 9780230620469
Booksplease Price: £46.74The hero s descent into the Underworld is not only one of the oldest stories in western literature; it is also one of the most often retold. Why do so many modern poets - British and American, black... -
Poems as Friends: The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology by Fiona Bennett 9781529432459
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Poetry Exchange is an award-winning podcast and project that celebrates the role poetry plays in people's lives. In their first anthology, Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer draw on ten years of... -
The Action by Roger Garfitt 9781784107710
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Elegy turns into affirmation, `binding the pulse / back into the body', in this new collection by Eric Gregory Award-winning poet Roger Garfitt. Roger Garfitt has published sparingly but always to... -
Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English by S. J. Harrison 9780199233731
Booksplease Price: £81.22This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony... -
Intimate Exposure by 9780786442218
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19The ever-shifting boundaries of the public and private spheres have exerted strong, though often subtle, pressures on modern life. This collection of 14 critical essays analyzes how British poetry... -
The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton by William Fogarty 9783031078880
Booksplease Price: £112.12The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the... -
The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton by William Fogarty 9783031078910
Booksplease Price: £112.12The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the... -
Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11From ancient Greece and Rome (Sappho, Marcellus Empiricus) to the current Covid 19 crisis (Eavan Boland's 'Quarantine'), poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human... -
Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015: Art, Modernity and the National Stage by Irene Morra 9781472580139
Booksplease Price: £29.88Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 provides a critical and historical exploration of a tradition of modern dramatic creativity that has received very little scholarly attention. Exploring the... -
Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015: Art, Modernity and the National Stage by Irene Morra 9781472580146
Booksplease Price: £103.11Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 provides a critical and historical exploration of a tradition of modern dramatic creativity that has received very little scholarly attention. Exploring the... -
The Sound Sense of Poetry by Peter Robinson 9781108422963
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.26What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Acclaimed poet Peter Robinson brings his... -
The Sonnet by Stephen Regan 9780192893079
Booksplease Price: £78.40The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, and still used today by poets such as Seamus... -
The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-century Literature by Damian Walford Davies 9780814330586
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.37The authors in this collection join an animated debate on the persistence of Romanticism. Even as dominant twentieth-century cultural movements have contested Romantic ""myths"" of redemptive Nature,...