literary criticism
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1985
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- In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own…
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A Choice of Kipling’s Verse
- £15.00
- Eliot's anthology on Kipling, including his essay about the poet.
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A Preface to Paradise Lost (‘revised and enlarged’ from lectures, not a previous publication)
- £140.00
- In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own work. Lewis a revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's masterpiece,…
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A Short Life of Shakespeare with the Sources
- £80.00
- "This book is an abridgment of William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, by Sir Edmund Chambers, published in 1930 in two volumes. It has been made for the convenience of those who cannot possess and perhaps do not find it easy to consult the major work, but have…
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Abinger Harvest
- £140.00
- This collection contains Forsters delightful and essays on subjects as diverse as Mickey Mouse, English liberty, life in India, writers such as Woolf, Conrad and Proust, and the two pageants he wrote for his Surrey village of Abinger.
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
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- Work of literary criticism
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
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- Work of literary criticism
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
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- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
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Ariel’s Gift: a Commentary on Birthday Letters (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
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- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
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- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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C. S. Lewis (Writers and their Work)
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- The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents…
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Charles Williams (Writers and Their Work No 63)
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- Written for the British Council and the National Book League, this series Writers and their Work was published monthly. Heath-Stubbs examines the wide interests of Charles Williams who was a poet, novelist and critic; his conclusion was that Williams was 'a major poet' was arrived at by a close analysis,…
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Chaucer (Chesterton’s Biographies)
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- Chesterton expounds the genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were more sane, more normal and more cheerful than writers that came after him' and the characters he portrayed have an immediate contemporary relevance.…
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Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Cupid and the Jacaranda
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- This is another book by Sacheverell Sitwell belonging to the series which began with his Dance of the Ouick and the Dead in 1936. It is, in fact, the fifth volume of this series Cupid and the Jacaranda, like its predecessors, ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly,…
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Dark Matter: A Thinking Fans Guide to Philip Pullman
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- "My books are about killing God." So declares Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Appealing to millions of children and adults alike, Pullman's books create a universe in which the church…
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Democracy and the Arts
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- Brooke's essay was first written in 1910 as an address to the Cambridge Fabian Society of which Brooke was president while up at King's. Only published posthumously in 1946.
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
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- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C S Lewis
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- A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book. C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology,…
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Elizabethan Essays
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- Rare anthology of Eliot's essays on Elizabethan dramatists (incl Marlowe, Johnson, Shakespeare et al.)
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Émile Zola
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- Hemmings was Professor of French Literature at Leicester and wrote a number of highly respected books about Zola, in particular, this profile of his life and writing.
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £75.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
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- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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Figures of Several Centuries
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- An anthology of essays by Arthur Symons (1865-1945), a noted poet, critic and magazine editor.
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From the Land of Shadows
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- His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best. '[T]he lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Ð Times Literary Supplement. Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early…
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
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- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
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- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
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- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
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I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
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Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
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- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
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Jane Austen (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)
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- This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu…
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John Betjeman (Writers and their Work)
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- Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit…
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John Keats (Writers and their Work)
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- This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to KeatsÕs major poems and letters, from a perspective which aims to counter the historical emphasis of recent critical work.
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John Masefield, O.M.: a Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute (SIGNED)
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- A Tribute to the Poet Laureate John Masefield with a bibliography for his 81st Birthday in 1960. A limited signed edition of 999 copies.
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Jonathan Swift (Writers and their Work)
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- The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rest including 'A Tale of Tub', 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Modest Proposal' and more. This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.
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Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
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- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
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Lewis Carroll
- £12.00
- de la Mare's brief appreciation of the great Victorian master of the absurd
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
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- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
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Light on C. S. Lewis
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- Written soon after Lewis's death in 1963, this book contains verious essays on his legacy. Owen Barfield, Austin Farrer, J. A. W. Bennett, Nevill Coghill, John Lawlor, Stella Gibbons, Kathleen Raine, Chad Walsh and Walter Hooper. Index. CONTENTS: Preface by Jocelyn Gibb, Introduction by Owen Barfield. 1. The Christian Apologist…
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Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
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- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing
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- In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ÔI have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.Õ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
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- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £60.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
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- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
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- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
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- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Paradox in Chesterton
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- The renowned Canadian literary scholar and critic, Hugh Kenner, would go on to publish many books after this one, his first. The introduction was by his friend and mentor, Marshall McLuhan.
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Poetry and Drama
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- Eliot's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard University given on Nov 21 1950.
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Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
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- Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and…
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Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
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- Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and…
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Pound Wise
- £25.00
- This superb collection of essays bears the strong stamp of Osbert Sitwell's (1892-1967) own character and outlook, as well as that of his genius. They are extremely idiosyncratic, elegant and eloquent; graceful and angry; sometimes prophetic; always generous-hearted, courageous, intensely civilized.The first-rate journalist within the radical aristocrat makes this book…
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Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks
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- Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical artÑresulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato,…
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Robert Smith Surtees: A Critical Study
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- R. S. Surtees was an English editor, novelist, and sporting writer and a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his character John Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.
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Rudyard Kipling – a new appreciation
- £12.00
- A wartime appreciation and biography of the Nobel-prize winning writer.
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Selected Essays 1917-1932
- £100.00
- In this magisterial volume, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of…
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Selected Poems (Edith Sitwell), with an essay on her own poetry
- £22.00
- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (1887–1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and…
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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
- £7.00
- From the cover: Though not, stricttly speaking, a book of travel, many of these essays take the reader to distant parts of the world which now he can reach by no other means [due to the 2nd World War]: Central America, the West indies, with glimpses of China and other…
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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
- £16.00
- From the cover: Though not, stricttly speaking, a book of travel, many of these essays take the reader to distant parts of the world which now he can reach by no other means [due to the 2nd World War]: Central America, the West indies, with glimpses of China and other…
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Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
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- Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995…
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Studies in Words (Second edition)
- £25.00
- LanguageÑin its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meaningsÑis a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and…
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T. S. Eliot (Lives & Legacies)
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- The winner of the Nobel Trize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet _ forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in this brilliant exploration of T.S. Eliot's work, prize-winning poet Craig…
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T. S. Eliot (Writers and Critics)
- £12.00
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was a Canadian literary scholar, considered by many to be the finest of his generation. His crtical introduction to Eliot was widely regarded.
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T.S. Eliot (Writers And Their Work: No. 8)
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- M. C. Bradbrook was a British literary scholar known for her work on Shakespeare who became Cambridge Professor of English.
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T.S. Eliot: A symposium
- £40.00
- A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of…
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T.S.Eliot: The Longer Poems
- £35.00
- Traversi was a British scholar of English literature who worked in Italy and USA.
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The Achievement of T. S. Eliot, an essay on the nature of poetry
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- The revised edition in 1947 (after original published in 1935) of a respected l iterary criticism of the poetical works of Eliot, which is also a study of the art of poetry.
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The Bible and its Rewritings
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- Piero Boitani discusses how some of the most fascinating scenes of Old and New Testament -- Genesis, Exodus, Job, the Susanna story, the Gospel of John -- are directly or indirectly rewritten in works ranging from the medieval period to the late twentieth-century: by Milton and Mann; by Chaucer, Dryden,…
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The Classics and the Man of Letters
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- Eliot's presidential address delivered in the Classical Association on 15 April 1942.
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The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal: for Nov 1814É Feb 1815 (vol XXIV)
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- Started on 10 October 1802 by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Brougham, and Francis Horner, it was published by Archibald Constable in quarterly issues until 1929. It began as a literary and political review.
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The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- In The End of the Poem, Paul Muldoon, the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War (The Times Literary Supplement), presents engaging, rigorous, and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems, from Yeatss All Souls Night to Stevie Smiths I Remember to Fernando Pessoas Autopsychography. Here…
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The English Poetic Mind
- £100.00
- ÔThe English Poetic MindÕ (1932) is WilliamsÕ discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English poets: Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth. The text is reflective of WilliamsÕ imaginative and critical approach to literature and his appreciation of poetry and verse. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was…
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The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes
- £25.00
- Reflections and engagements with the legacy of Ted Hughes. Contributors to this volume: A. Alvarez - Simon Armitage - Martin Booth - Melvyn Bragg - Charles Causley - Gillian Clarke - Barrie Cooke - Wendy Cope - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill - Ruth Fainlight - John Fowles - Terry Gifford -…
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The Gothick North (vol. I): The Visit Of The Gypsies
- £25.00
- The Gothick North: A Study Of Mediaeval Life, Art, And Thought, Vol. I. Sacheverell Siitwell (1897-1988), was best known as an art critic, music critic, and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings.
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The Lost Childhood and other essays
- £75.00
- Greene's collection of literary essays about authors such as Henry James, the Young Dickens, John Buchan, Ford Madox Ford and Beatrix Potter.
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The Manuscripts of A Passage to India (The Abinger Edition 6a)
- £200.00
- To accompany The Abinger Edition of A Passage to India, this volume relates page by page, line by line, to the novel in such. Way that the reader can follow the successive revisions - whether of a single word, sentence, paragraph or lenghty passage - that culminated in the published…
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The Originals: Who’s Really Who In Fiction
- £9.00
- William Amos has had the obvious (now that he's done it) but brilliant idea of compiling an A to Z of literary figures who had real life originals. An ingenious index gives us the subjects and their fictional counterparts... This is the best kind of reference book, the sort that…
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The Other Man: Conversations With Graham Greene
- £75.00
- For any fascinated by Graham Greene, this is a must-read. Renowned for personal reserve, even prickliness, it took a friend, Marie-Francoise Allain to do what no other journalist had been able to do: to draw out of Greene some of his inner-most thoughts and perceptions. This was in part because…
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The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (SIGNED Rowse)
- £100.00
- Of interest perhaps primarily because Emilia Lanier was possibly Shakespeare's mistress (the dark lady). The poems are emblematic of much of the verse of the time. The introduction by AL Rowse makes a strong case for Lanier as the famous Dark Lady.
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot (vols I & II) – the annotated text
- £100.00
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over…
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The Reader’s Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel
- £20.00
- A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year.
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The Sacred Wood, essays on poetry and criticism
- £12.00
- First published by Methuen in 1920 and compiled from various journals, this University Paperbacks edition was first published in 1960.
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The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
- £30.00
- Eliot's 1932-33 Norton Lectures at Harvard are among the best and most important of his critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition…
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
- £30.00
- The Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century…
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Tolkien and the Silmarils
- £25.00
- One of the earliest examples of Tolkien scholarship. Randel Helms' short but illuminating volume on "The Silmarillion" approaches the work from a literary & theological perspective, Helms reminds the reader of Tolkien's lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith, which informs every page of his work, as well as his deep…
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Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carr
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- John le Carr is one of the most significant political novelists in the English language. His early career in the secret service took him to West Germany at the height of the Cold War and subsequent novels prompted field trips all over the world, from Hong Kong to the Democratic…
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
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Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
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Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
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What is a Classic?
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- The transcript of Eliot's wartime lecture given to the Virgil Society on 16 October 1944 published the following January in London.
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Who Killed Cock Robin? Remarks on Poetry and Its criticism, and Including the Sad Story of Eunuch Arden
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- Sitwell offers characteristically erudite & amusing comments on poetry & its criticism in seven parts: I - The Public and the Mammon of Righteousness; II - Give them the Bird; III - An Inquest on the Body of Eunuch Arden; IV - From the Bathroom "Window; V - Concerning Simple…
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Who’s Who in D. H. Lawrence
- £12.00
- Writer and critic Graham Holderness has published over 40 books, many on Shakespeare, and hundreds of chapters and articles of criticism, theory and theology. He was one of the founders of British cultural materialism, and is acknowledged as a formative contributor to a number of branches of Shakespeare criticism and…
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
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1985
- £50.00
- In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own…
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A Choice of Kipling’s Verse
- £15.00
- Eliot's anthology on Kipling, including his essay about the poet.
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A Preface to Paradise Lost (‘revised and enlarged’ from lectures, not a previous publication)
- £140.00
- In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own work. Lewis a revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's masterpiece,…
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A Short Life of Shakespeare with the Sources
- £80.00
- "This book is an abridgment of William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, by Sir Edmund Chambers, published in 1930 in two volumes. It has been made for the convenience of those who cannot possess and perhaps do not find it easy to consult the major work, but have…
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Abinger Harvest
- £140.00
- This collection contains Forsters delightful and essays on subjects as diverse as Mickey Mouse, English liberty, life in India, writers such as Woolf, Conrad and Proust, and the two pageants he wrote for his Surrey village of Abinger.
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama
- £10.00
- Work of literary criticism
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Anthony Trollope (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particually at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media exploitation and the integration of the private and the public.…
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Ariel’s Gift: a Commentary on Birthday Letters (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Erica Wagner has set the poems of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Sylvia Plath with great delicacy . . . Her book is informed not only by Plath's journals and letters, but, more significantly, moonlit throughout by Plath's poetry.' Times Literary Supplement 'A commentary…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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C. S. Lewis (Writers and their Work)
- £10.00
- The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents…
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Charles Williams (Writers and Their Work No 63)
- £20.00
- Written for the British Council and the National Book League, this series Writers and their Work was published monthly. Heath-Stubbs examines the wide interests of Charles Williams who was a poet, novelist and critic; his conclusion was that Williams was 'a major poet' was arrived at by a close analysis,…
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Chaucer (Chesterton’s Biographies)
- £13.00
- Chesterton expounds the genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were more sane, more normal and more cheerful than writers that came after him' and the characters he portrayed have an immediate contemporary relevance.…
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Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Cupid and the Jacaranda
- £16.00
- This is another book by Sacheverell Sitwell belonging to the series which began with his Dance of the Ouick and the Dead in 1936. It is, in fact, the fifth volume of this series Cupid and the Jacaranda, like its predecessors, ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly,…
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Dark Matter: A Thinking Fans Guide to Philip Pullman
- £15.00
- "My books are about killing God." So declares Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Appealing to millions of children and adults alike, Pullman's books create a universe in which the church…
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Democracy and the Arts
- £20.00
- Brooke's essay was first written in 1910 as an address to the Cambridge Fabian Society of which Brooke was president while up at King's. Only published posthumously in 1946.
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C S Lewis
- £25.00
- A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book. C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology,…
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Elizabethan Essays
- £30.00
- Rare anthology of Eliot's essays on Elizabethan dramatists (incl Marlowe, Johnson, Shakespeare et al.)
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Émile Zola
- £25.00
- Hemmings was Professor of French Literature at Leicester and wrote a number of highly respected books about Zola, in particular, this profile of his life and writing.
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £75.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £100.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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Figures of Several Centuries
- £50.00
- An anthology of essays by Arthur Symons (1865-1945), a noted poet, critic and magazine editor.
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From the Land of Shadows
- £8.00
- His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best. '[T]he lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Ð Times Literary Supplement. Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early…
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £35.00
- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
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I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
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Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
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Jane Austen (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)
- £13.00
- This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu…
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John Betjeman (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit…
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John Keats (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to KeatsÕs major poems and letters, from a perspective which aims to counter the historical emphasis of recent critical work.
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John Masefield, O.M.: a Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Tribute to the Poet Laureate John Masefield with a bibliography for his 81st Birthday in 1960. A limited signed edition of 999 copies.
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Jonathan Swift (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rest including 'A Tale of Tub', 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Modest Proposal' and more. This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.
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Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
- £30.00
- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
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Lewis Carroll
- £12.00
- de la Mare's brief appreciation of the great Victorian master of the absurd
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Life as a Literary Device: a Writer’s Manual of Survival (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Vitali Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born author, poet and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. In this honest memoir, Vitaliev describes how on many occasions in his life, words have provided him with the means…
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Light on C. S. Lewis
- £50.00
- Written soon after Lewis's death in 1963, this book contains verious essays on his legacy. Owen Barfield, Austin Farrer, J. A. W. Bennett, Nevill Coghill, John Lawlor, Stella Gibbons, Kathleen Raine, Chad Walsh and Walter Hooper. Index. CONTENTS: Preface by Jocelyn Gibb, Introduction by Owen Barfield. 1. The Christian Apologist…
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Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing
- £40.00
- In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ÔI have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.Õ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £35.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £60.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
- £25.00
- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and Prospectus
- £25.00
- Divided into four sections, with wrappers and inserts included. Introduced with an article by Arthur Waugh on Dickens' Illustrators. A prospectus for a Nonesuch Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens.
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
- £20.00
- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Paradox in Chesterton
- £50.00
- The renowned Canadian literary scholar and critic, Hugh Kenner, would go on to publish many books after this one, his first. The introduction was by his friend and mentor, Marshall McLuhan.
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Poetry and Drama
- £85.00
- Eliot's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard University given on Nov 21 1950.
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Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
- £15.00
- Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and…
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Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
- £10.00
- Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and…
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Pound Wise
- £25.00
- This superb collection of essays bears the strong stamp of Osbert Sitwell's (1892-1967) own character and outlook, as well as that of his genius. They are extremely idiosyncratic, elegant and eloquent; graceful and angry; sometimes prophetic; always generous-hearted, courageous, intensely civilized.The first-rate journalist within the radical aristocrat makes this book…
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Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks
- £23.00
- Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical artÑresulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato,…
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Robert Smith Surtees: A Critical Study
- £50.00
- R. S. Surtees was an English editor, novelist, and sporting writer and a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his character John Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.
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Rudyard Kipling – a new appreciation
- £12.00
- A wartime appreciation and biography of the Nobel-prize winning writer.
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Selected Essays 1917-1932
- £100.00
- In this magisterial volume, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of…
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Selected Poems (Edith Sitwell), with an essay on her own poetry
- £22.00
- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (1887–1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and…
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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
- £7.00
- From the cover: Though not, stricttly speaking, a book of travel, many of these essays take the reader to distant parts of the world which now he can reach by no other means [due to the 2nd World War]: Central America, the West indies, with glimpses of China and other…
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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
- £16.00
- From the cover: Though not, stricttly speaking, a book of travel, many of these essays take the reader to distant parts of the world which now he can reach by no other means [due to the 2nd World War]: Central America, the West indies, with glimpses of China and other…
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Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
- £50.00
- Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995…
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Studies in Words (Second edition)
- £25.00
- LanguageÑin its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meaningsÑis a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and…
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T. S. Eliot (Lives & Legacies)
- £9.00
- The winner of the Nobel Trize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet _ forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in this brilliant exploration of T.S. Eliot's work, prize-winning poet Craig…
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T. S. Eliot (Writers and Critics)
- £12.00
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was a Canadian literary scholar, considered by many to be the finest of his generation. His crtical introduction to Eliot was widely regarded.
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T.S. Eliot (Writers And Their Work: No. 8)
- £12.00
- M. C. Bradbrook was a British literary scholar known for her work on Shakespeare who became Cambridge Professor of English.
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T.S. Eliot: A symposium
- £40.00
- A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of…
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T.S.Eliot: The Longer Poems
- £35.00
- Traversi was a British scholar of English literature who worked in Italy and USA.
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The Achievement of T. S. Eliot, an essay on the nature of poetry
- £12.00
- The revised edition in 1947 (after original published in 1935) of a respected l iterary criticism of the poetical works of Eliot, which is also a study of the art of poetry.
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The Bible and its Rewritings
- £40.00
- Piero Boitani discusses how some of the most fascinating scenes of Old and New Testament -- Genesis, Exodus, Job, the Susanna story, the Gospel of John -- are directly or indirectly rewritten in works ranging from the medieval period to the late twentieth-century: by Milton and Mann; by Chaucer, Dryden,…
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The Classics and the Man of Letters
- £40.00
- Eliot's presidential address delivered in the Classical Association on 15 April 1942.
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The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal: for Nov 1814É Feb 1815 (vol XXIV)
- £50.00
- Started on 10 October 1802 by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Brougham, and Francis Horner, it was published by Archibald Constable in quarterly issues until 1929. It began as a literary and political review.
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The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- In The End of the Poem, Paul Muldoon, the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War (The Times Literary Supplement), presents engaging, rigorous, and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems, from Yeatss All Souls Night to Stevie Smiths I Remember to Fernando Pessoas Autopsychography. Here…
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The English Poetic Mind
- £100.00
- ÔThe English Poetic MindÕ (1932) is WilliamsÕ discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English poets: Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth. The text is reflective of WilliamsÕ imaginative and critical approach to literature and his appreciation of poetry and verse. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was…
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The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes
- £25.00
- Reflections and engagements with the legacy of Ted Hughes. Contributors to this volume: A. Alvarez - Simon Armitage - Martin Booth - Melvyn Bragg - Charles Causley - Gillian Clarke - Barrie Cooke - Wendy Cope - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill - Ruth Fainlight - John Fowles - Terry Gifford -…
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The Gothick North (vol. I): The Visit Of The Gypsies
- £25.00
- The Gothick North: A Study Of Mediaeval Life, Art, And Thought, Vol. I. Sacheverell Siitwell (1897-1988), was best known as an art critic, music critic, and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings.
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The Lost Childhood and other essays
- £75.00
- Greene's collection of literary essays about authors such as Henry James, the Young Dickens, John Buchan, Ford Madox Ford and Beatrix Potter.
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The Manuscripts of A Passage to India (The Abinger Edition 6a)
- £200.00
- To accompany The Abinger Edition of A Passage to India, this volume relates page by page, line by line, to the novel in such. Way that the reader can follow the successive revisions - whether of a single word, sentence, paragraph or lenghty passage - that culminated in the published…
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The Originals: Who’s Really Who In Fiction
- £9.00
- William Amos has had the obvious (now that he's done it) but brilliant idea of compiling an A to Z of literary figures who had real life originals. An ingenious index gives us the subjects and their fictional counterparts... This is the best kind of reference book, the sort that…
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The Other Man: Conversations With Graham Greene
- £75.00
- For any fascinated by Graham Greene, this is a must-read. Renowned for personal reserve, even prickliness, it took a friend, Marie-Francoise Allain to do what no other journalist had been able to do: to draw out of Greene some of his inner-most thoughts and perceptions. This was in part because…
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The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (SIGNED Rowse)
- £100.00
- Of interest perhaps primarily because Emilia Lanier was possibly Shakespeare's mistress (the dark lady). The poems are emblematic of much of the verse of the time. The introduction by AL Rowse makes a strong case for Lanier as the famous Dark Lady.
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot (vols I & II) – the annotated text
- £100.00
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over…
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The Reader’s Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel
- £20.00
- A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year.
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The Sacred Wood, essays on poetry and criticism
- £12.00
- First published by Methuen in 1920 and compiled from various journals, this University Paperbacks edition was first published in 1960.
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The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
- £30.00
- Eliot's 1932-33 Norton Lectures at Harvard are among the best and most important of his critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition…
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
- £30.00
- The Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century…
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Tolkien and the Silmarils
- £25.00
- One of the earliest examples of Tolkien scholarship. Randel Helms' short but illuminating volume on "The Silmarillion" approaches the work from a literary & theological perspective, Helms reminds the reader of Tolkien's lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith, which informs every page of his work, as well as his deep…
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Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carr
- £30.00
- John le Carr is one of the most significant political novelists in the English language. His early career in the secret service took him to West Germany at the height of the Cold War and subsequent novels prompted field trips all over the world, from Hong Kong to the Democratic…
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
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Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators
- £20.00
- With over 80 illustrations, this book explores the influences and culture of Victorian fiction, tracing the roots of illustrators to Cruikshank, Hogarth and Gillray.
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Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
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What is a Classic?
- £50.00
- The transcript of Eliot's wartime lecture given to the Virgil Society on 16 October 1944 published the following January in London.
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Who Killed Cock Robin? Remarks on Poetry and Its criticism, and Including the Sad Story of Eunuch Arden
- £40.00
- Sitwell offers characteristically erudite & amusing comments on poetry & its criticism in seven parts: I - The Public and the Mammon of Righteousness; II - Give them the Bird; III - An Inquest on the Body of Eunuch Arden; IV - From the Bathroom "Window; V - Concerning Simple…
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Who’s Who in D. H. Lawrence
- £12.00
- Writer and critic Graham Holderness has published over 40 books, many on Shakespeare, and hundreds of chapters and articles of criticism, theory and theology. He was one of the founders of British cultural materialism, and is acknowledged as a formative contributor to a number of branches of Shakespeare criticism and…
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
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- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
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