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The Complete Poems by William Empson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman, his reputation... -
Milton's God by William Empson 9780313210211
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William Empson: The Critical Achievement by Christopher Norris 9780521118866
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Modern Heroism: Essays on D. H. Lawrence, William Empson, and J. R. R. Tolkien by Roger Sale 9780520356580
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The Use and Action of Stays and Corsets, on Disease and Developement of the Female Figure by William Hempson Denham 9780353557802
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780353557802Author William Hempson DenhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 38 -
Synge: Four Plays by Steven M. Studebaker 9780333423844
Booksplease Price: £35.46This collection of criticism is on four of the most-studied plays of J.M. Synge. Along with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory he created the Irish literary movement and the Abbey theatre. The playwright is... -
This Craft of Verse Jorge Luis Borges 9780674302457
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.26"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." -Steven Poole, The GuardianSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries... -
Shakespeare: Measure for Measure by C. K. Stead 9780333008799
Booksplease Price: £35.46This detailed volume presents a selection of early comments on the play, reviews of post-war productions and modern critical studies. It includes contributions from a wide range of critics, including... -
Conjurors: Poems Julian Orde 9781800174559
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60In Conjurors, a major poet is revealed for the first time. Julian Orde (1917–74) published only in magazines during her lifetime. She was a key figure in the Carcanet anthology of the mid-century,... -
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.11Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated... -
Purity of Diction in English Verse: AND Articulate Energy by Donald Davie
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Donald Davie's first two prose books (1952, 1955), available now in one volume with a new foreword, set the agenda for 'The Movement' and shaped the critical approach of two generations of readers... -
Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons 9781847771254
Booksplease Price: £17.85First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of criticism, and served to introduce the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. Symons' interest... -
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini
Booksplease Price: £24.99This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of... -
PN Review 271 Michael Schmidt 9781800173705
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The May-June 2023 issue During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries,... -
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACEWhat is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £10.95This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned...