literary criticism
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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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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 -…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket