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Splendours and Miseries
- £40.00
- Sacherverell Sitwell's anthology of short stories and essays. Sitwell was an English writer and poet. He produced many works on art, music and architecture and over 50 volumes of poetry. He was best known as an art and music critic. This book was published in the context of the Second…
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Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960
- £15.00
- Third anthology of New Yorker short stories; includes writers such as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Roger La Farge, Roald Dahl, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Prawer Jhabvala, Nadine Gordimer, John Cheever
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T.S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962
- £35.00
- Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes. Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962…
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Tales of a Wayside Inn
- £40.00
- In his lifetime Longfellow was recognized as one of the America's great poets, though he became temporarily less fashionable after his death. A great admirer of the European tradition, he contributed greatly to the American intellectual life against the contemporary grain of isolationalism.
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Ten Poems about Sheep
- £8.00
- Just what it says on the tin! This is literally ten poems about sheep! As founding editor of Bloodaxe Books, Neil Astley writes: I do hope that these ten poems about sheep will give readers a greeater understanding and sympathy for a poorly understood and too often maligned animal.'
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Tenebrae
- £30.00
- Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the 'greatest living poet in the English language.' From 2010 to 2015 he held the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. He died in 2016
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Thank you, Fog
- £35.00
- Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W. H. Auden is a posthumous book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1974. The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who…
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The Automatic Oracle (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- With this new collection, Peter Porter shows his maturity as a poet and displays his ability to work in a variety of forms. The "oracle" of the title is the English language, with the poet acting as a "priest" bound to carry messages to the outside world. Porter's themes here…
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The Bedside Book of Birds: an avian miscellany
- £25.00
- Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers, birds have represented the soul in contrast…
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The Best of Betjeman
- £15.00
- John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an ever-expanding readership. From beneath his sparkling wit and deceptively simple nostalgia, Betjeman emerges as the authority on a…
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The Best Poems of 1940
- £15.00
- Contributions by John Hall Wheelock, Robert Frost, Humbert Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Engle, Louis Ginsberg, A.E. Housman, Conrad Aiken, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Auden, and many others.
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The Bird-Cage (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Andrew Young (1885-1971) was a Scottish poet and Presbyterian then Anglican clergyman. This is his 7th volume of poems to be published. Sometimes associated with the Georgian poets who were his contemporaries.
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The Bluebells and Other Verse
- £10.00
- Excerpt: To wrest such bounty out of sun and soil? What starved imagination ached to feed? What harassed heart implored for an assoil?
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The Bread of Truth, poems
- £40.00
- The 8th anthology of poems by the renowned Welsh Anglican priest.
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The Burning-Glass and other poems
- £15.00
- An anthology of de la Mare's poetry published towards the end of the 2nd World War. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was an acclaimed English writer best known for his works for children and for his poem 'The Listener'. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prixe in 1921 for…
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Splendours and Miseries
- £40.00
- Sacherverell Sitwell's anthology of short stories and essays. Sitwell was an English writer and poet. He produced many works on art, music and architecture and over 50 volumes of poetry. He was best known as an art and music critic. This book was published in the context of the Second…
- Add to basket
-
Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960
- £15.00
- Third anthology of New Yorker short stories; includes writers such as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Roger La Farge, Roald Dahl, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Prawer Jhabvala, Nadine Gordimer, John Cheever
- Add to basket
-
T.S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962
- £35.00
- Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes. Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962…
- Add to basket
-
Tales of a Wayside Inn
- £40.00
- In his lifetime Longfellow was recognized as one of the America's great poets, though he became temporarily less fashionable after his death. A great admirer of the European tradition, he contributed greatly to the American intellectual life against the contemporary grain of isolationalism.
- Add to basket
-
Ten Poems about Sheep
- £8.00
- Just what it says on the tin! This is literally ten poems about sheep! As founding editor of Bloodaxe Books, Neil Astley writes: I do hope that these ten poems about sheep will give readers a greeater understanding and sympathy for a poorly understood and too often maligned animal.'
- Add to basket
-
Tenebrae
- £30.00
- Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the 'greatest living poet in the English language.' From 2010 to 2015 he held the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. He died in 2016
- Add to basket
-
Thank you, Fog
- £35.00
- Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W. H. Auden is a posthumous book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1974. The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who…
- Add to basket
-
The Automatic Oracle (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- With this new collection, Peter Porter shows his maturity as a poet and displays his ability to work in a variety of forms. The "oracle" of the title is the English language, with the poet acting as a "priest" bound to carry messages to the outside world. Porter's themes here…
- Add to basket
-
The Bedside Book of Birds: an avian miscellany
- £25.00
- Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to Quetzalcoatl (the Aztec plumed serpent), and from Raven Man to Plato's description of the soul growing wings and feathers, birds have represented the soul in contrast…
- Add to basket
-
The Best of Betjeman
- £15.00
- John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an ever-expanding readership. From beneath his sparkling wit and deceptively simple nostalgia, Betjeman emerges as the authority on a…
- Add to basket
-
The Best Poems of 1940
- £15.00
- Contributions by John Hall Wheelock, Robert Frost, Humbert Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Engle, Louis Ginsberg, A.E. Housman, Conrad Aiken, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Auden, and many others.
- Add to basket
-
The Bird-Cage (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Andrew Young (1885-1971) was a Scottish poet and Presbyterian then Anglican clergyman. This is his 7th volume of poems to be published. Sometimes associated with the Georgian poets who were his contemporaries.
- Add to basket
-
The Bluebells and Other Verse
- £10.00
- Excerpt: To wrest such bounty out of sun and soil? What starved imagination ached to feed? What harassed heart implored for an assoil?
- Add to basket
-
The Bread of Truth, poems
- £40.00
- The 8th anthology of poems by the renowned Welsh Anglican priest.
- Add to basket
-
The Burning-Glass and other poems
- £15.00
- An anthology of de la Mare's poetry published towards the end of the 2nd World War. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was an acclaimed English writer best known for his works for children and for his poem 'The Listener'. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prixe in 1921 for…
- Add to basket