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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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)
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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
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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
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- 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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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- 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.
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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…
- 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
-
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 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,…
- 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.
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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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- 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