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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
- £22.00
- Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, at teachers and at graduate students. It will be useful as well to ministers and other professionals within the church. Its eighteen…
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The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi
- £26.00
- Francis of Assisi (1181/82Ð1226) was one of the most vibrant and colourful personalities in the Middle Ages. The life of this remarkable reformer of the medieval Church was celebrated in art, drama, poetry, music, the new vernacular literature and architecture. His ideal was to enter into a restorative and enriching…
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The Chair of Babel (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This is a collection of 50 new poems, on a great mixture of autobiographical and more general subjects; on dreams, states of mind, and above all on the divisiveness of language, used in Porter's various `Babel' of forms. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of…
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The Chappo Collection: Life, Laughter, Leadership, Love
- £18.00
- Introducing a new book on the much loved and respected Bible teacher and evangelist, John Chapman. This book by David Mansfield is a collection of stories by and about John Chapman. It gives an insight into a man who loved and proclaimed the gospel throughout his life, and whose ministry…
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The Collected Poems Of Edith Sitwell.
- £50.00
- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Edith was the oldest child and only daughter of her wildly eccentric and unloving parents. Her father, believing she had a spinal deformation, imposed upon her a ÔcureÕ which involved locking…
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The Collected Poems of John Masefield (New and Enlarged Edition) – signed
- £200.00
- The new and enlarged edition of Masefield's original 1923 collection, including incidental poems from Sard Harker, Odraa, and The 'Wanderer', together with the poetic volume Midsummer Night. (166pp of additional matter).
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
- £25.00
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens is the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called "the best and most representative American poet." Originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens's seventy-fifth birthday, the book was rushed into print for the occasion and contained scores of errors. Now corrected this…
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The Collected Poems: 1959-2024 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy. For sixty years, Roger McGough has thrilled and delighted generations of readers with his irreverent, intimate and ever-original poetry. The Collected Poems presents the definitive selection of his very best work, from the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential Sixties start, through to…
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The Colour of Saying – an anthology of verse spoken by Dylan Thomas
- £25.00
- An anthology of English Poetry that at some stage had been broadcast or performed by Dylan Thomas, and which had evidently been selected by Thomas himself. Amongst them are a number from the Anglo Welsh poets as well as many of the great English Poets of the last century.
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The Complete Poems and Songs
- £20.00
- An excellent collection of Robert Burns' poetry and songs with an index of first lines, and the poems. Burns was born in 1759 in the village of Alloway near Ayr. Famously considered Scotland's national bard, his birthday is celebrated across Scotland on that very day. Born into a family of…
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (2nd ed)
- £25.00
- This complete critical edition of Chaucer's poetry and prose has, as the Cambridge Review prophesied when it first appeared, become the standard edition of Chaucer for all who are seriously interested in his writings.
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The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Though only a few of the poems in this collection (Porter's seventh) are directly autobiographical, the whole book is haunted by one event--the death of his wife at the end of 1974. 'The cost of seriousness will be death' says the title poem. Porter was made a Companion of Literature…
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The Customs House (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to…
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The Ebony Tower
- £50.00
- An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace. Written…
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The Englishman in Greece (an anthology)
- £20.00
- 1st edition of this Oxford anthology of English poets writing in and about Greece, reflecting the British obsession with the Classical world over many generations.
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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
- £22.00
- Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, at teachers and at graduate students. It will be useful as well to ministers and other professionals within the church. Its eighteen…
- Add to basket
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The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi
- £26.00
- Francis of Assisi (1181/82Ð1226) was one of the most vibrant and colourful personalities in the Middle Ages. The life of this remarkable reformer of the medieval Church was celebrated in art, drama, poetry, music, the new vernacular literature and architecture. His ideal was to enter into a restorative and enriching…
- Add to basket
-
The Chair of Babel (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This is a collection of 50 new poems, on a great mixture of autobiographical and more general subjects; on dreams, states of mind, and above all on the divisiveness of language, used in Porter's various `Babel' of forms. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of…
- Add to basket
-
The Chappo Collection: Life, Laughter, Leadership, Love
- £18.00
- Introducing a new book on the much loved and respected Bible teacher and evangelist, John Chapman. This book by David Mansfield is a collection of stories by and about John Chapman. It gives an insight into a man who loved and proclaimed the gospel throughout his life, and whose ministry…
- Add to basket
-
The Collected Poems Of Edith Sitwell.
- £50.00
- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Edith was the oldest child and only daughter of her wildly eccentric and unloving parents. Her father, believing she had a spinal deformation, imposed upon her a ÔcureÕ which involved locking…
- Add to basket
-
The Collected Poems of John Masefield (New and Enlarged Edition) – signed
- £200.00
- The new and enlarged edition of Masefield's original 1923 collection, including incidental poems from Sard Harker, Odraa, and The 'Wanderer', together with the poetic volume Midsummer Night. (166pp of additional matter).
- Add to basket
-
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
- £25.00
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens is the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called "the best and most representative American poet." Originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens's seventy-fifth birthday, the book was rushed into print for the occasion and contained scores of errors. Now corrected this…
- Add to basket
-
The Collected Poems: 1959-2024 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy. For sixty years, Roger McGough has thrilled and delighted generations of readers with his irreverent, intimate and ever-original poetry. The Collected Poems presents the definitive selection of his very best work, from the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential Sixties start, through to…
- Add to basket
-
The Colour of Saying – an anthology of verse spoken by Dylan Thomas
- £25.00
- An anthology of English Poetry that at some stage had been broadcast or performed by Dylan Thomas, and which had evidently been selected by Thomas himself. Amongst them are a number from the Anglo Welsh poets as well as many of the great English Poets of the last century.
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Poems and Songs
- £20.00
- An excellent collection of Robert Burns' poetry and songs with an index of first lines, and the poems. Burns was born in 1759 in the village of Alloway near Ayr. Famously considered Scotland's national bard, his birthday is celebrated across Scotland on that very day. Born into a family of…
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (2nd ed)
- £25.00
- This complete critical edition of Chaucer's poetry and prose has, as the Cambridge Review prophesied when it first appeared, become the standard edition of Chaucer for all who are seriously interested in his writings.
- Add to basket
-
The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Though only a few of the poems in this collection (Porter's seventh) are directly autobiographical, the whole book is haunted by one event--the death of his wife at the end of 1974. 'The cost of seriousness will be death' says the title poem. Porter was made a Companion of Literature…
- Add to basket
-
The Customs House (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to…
- Add to basket
-
The Ebony Tower
- £50.00
- An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace. Written…
- Add to basket
-
The Englishman in Greece (an anthology)
- £20.00
- 1st edition of this Oxford anthology of English poets writing in and about Greece, reflecting the British obsession with the Classical world over many generations.
- Add to basket
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