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Rudyard Kipling – a new appreciation
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- A wartime appreciation and biography of the Nobel-prize winning writer.
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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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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)
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- 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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Ten Novels And Their Authors
- £40.00
- Series of essays about ten novels, with backgrounds of the authors: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Herman Melville, Emily Brontë, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
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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 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 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 Fine Art of Reading and other literary studies
- £12.00
- Lord David Cecil was an Oxford don and sometime member of the Inklings. This book of literary criticism with chapters on reading, Shakespearean Comedy, John Ford, English Fiction, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Scenery, Joseph Conrad, The Prose Tales of Walter de la Mare, Female Letter-writers, Hazlitt's Essays & Walter…
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Rudyard Kipling – a new appreciation
- £12.00
- A wartime appreciation and biography of the Nobel-prize winning writer.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
T.S.Eliot: The Longer Poems
- £35.00
- Traversi was a British scholar of English literature who worked in Italy and USA.
- Add to basket
-
Ten Novels And Their Authors
- £40.00
- Series of essays about ten novels, with backgrounds of the authors: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Herman Melville, Emily Brontë, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
The Classics and the Man of Letters
- £40.00
- Eliot's presidential address delivered in the Classical Association on 15 April 1942.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
The Fine Art of Reading and other literary studies
- £12.00
- Lord David Cecil was an Oxford don and sometime member of the Inklings. This book of literary criticism with chapters on reading, Shakespearean Comedy, John Ford, English Fiction, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Scenery, Joseph Conrad, The Prose Tales of Walter de la Mare, Female Letter-writers, Hazlitt's Essays & Walter…
- Add to basket
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