Poet Laureate
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A Book of Prose Selections
- £12.00
- John Masefield the then Poet Laureate makes his final selection of what he considers is the best of his work in prose. He has, as he admits, made a similar selection before, but it was done many years ago and his likes and dislikes, the general trend of his taste…
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A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- £25.00
- An anthology of poetry grouped under the headings - medium, light and gloom -with a variety of subject and mood including poems entitled 'Christmas', 'Business Girls' 'The Olympic Girl' and 'How To Get On In Society'
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A Generation Risen
- £15.00
- 24 poems by Masefield and 43 of Edward Seago's atmospheric b/w paintings and drawings of the people and places at the sharp end of World War II - soldiers, sailors, and airmen, land-girls and technicians, drawn at work or rest.
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A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
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A Tangled Web
- £35.00
- Hugo Chesterman is on trial for murdering a policeman. Why did he do it? Or could he be innocent? Daisy Bland is young, beautiful and naive, and her testimony threatens to send her husband to the gallows. For Daisy, it all started when she literally bumped into Hugo and fell…
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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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Ballads and Poems
- £30.00
- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
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Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
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Birthday Letters
- £15.00
- Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his…
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Bitter Fame: a life of Sylvia Plath
- £30.00
- "A vivid and, to me, moving portrait of a young woman who, carrying the full mixed cultural load of Americans born in 1932, as well as personal distresses and limitations peculiar to herself, (became) in ten driven years . . . the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation."--John Updike.
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Blossomise
- £15.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Blossomise (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
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Captain Margaret, a romance
- £35.00
- For most of the book the five main characters are shut together in the confined space of the cabin quarters on a 500 ton ship, The Broken Heart, sailing from Salcombe to Virginia and then on to the Spanish Main. They are Captain Margaret, a practical idealist with a commission…
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Church Poems
- £25.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
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Church Poems
- £45.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
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Collected Poems 1954 (Day Lewis)
- £12.00
- C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He was also the father of celebrated actor Sir Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Crow Steered Bergs Appeared: a memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Ted Hughes and Lucas Myers met at Cambridge University in January 1955. They maintained a close friendship until Hughes' death on 22 October 1988. Myers was also a friend of Sylvia Plath and various other family members. His memoir draws on his forty-year correspondence with Hughes and discusses Birthday Letters,…
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Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow
- £50.00
- Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge…
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Demeter and other poems
- £200.00
- 1st edition of Tennyson's poem Demeter and others including a celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1887.
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Difficulties of a Bridegroom
- £25.00
- A collection of stories by the the great poet including others the fable "O'Kelly's Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II. Why it has to say 'Poet Laureate of England' (rather than UK) on the cover, though,…
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Dwell (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history and mystery coexist. The reawakened landscape with…
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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
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Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
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Grace before Ploughing: Fragments of Autobiography
- £15.00
- Written the year before his death and subtitled 'Fragments of Autobiography', the book contains memories of Masefield's early years in Herefordshire, as well as some other key moments of his life.
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How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
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I Want! I Want!
- £15.00
- The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.
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Jim Davis
- £8.00
- Masefield's novel for children
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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…
- Add to basket
-
A Book of Prose Selections
- £12.00
- John Masefield the then Poet Laureate makes his final selection of what he considers is the best of his work in prose. He has, as he admits, made a similar selection before, but it was done many years ago and his likes and dislikes, the general trend of his taste…
- Add to basket
-
A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- £25.00
- An anthology of poetry grouped under the headings - medium, light and gloom -with a variety of subject and mood including poems entitled 'Christmas', 'Business Girls' 'The Olympic Girl' and 'How To Get On In Society'
- Add to basket
-
A Generation Risen
- £15.00
- 24 poems by Masefield and 43 of Edward Seago's atmospheric b/w paintings and drawings of the people and places at the sharp end of World War II - soldiers, sailors, and airmen, land-girls and technicians, drawn at work or rest.
- Add to basket
-
A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
- Add to basket
-
A Tangled Web
- £35.00
- Hugo Chesterman is on trial for murdering a policeman. Why did he do it? Or could he be innocent? Daisy Bland is young, beautiful and naive, and her testimony threatens to send her husband to the gallows. For Daisy, it all started when she literally bumped into Hugo and fell…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Ballads and Poems
- £30.00
- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
- Add to basket
-
Birthday Letters
- £15.00
- Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his…
- Add to basket
-
Bitter Fame: a life of Sylvia Plath
- £30.00
- "A vivid and, to me, moving portrait of a young woman who, carrying the full mixed cultural load of Americans born in 1932, as well as personal distresses and limitations peculiar to herself, (became) in ten driven years . . . the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation."--John Updike.
- Add to basket
-
Blossomise
- £15.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
- Add to basket
-
Blossomise (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese…
- Add to basket
-
Captain Margaret, a romance
- £35.00
- For most of the book the five main characters are shut together in the confined space of the cabin quarters on a 500 ton ship, The Broken Heart, sailing from Salcombe to Virginia and then on to the Spanish Main. They are Captain Margaret, a practical idealist with a commission…
- Add to basket
-
Church Poems
- £25.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
- Add to basket
-
Church Poems
- £45.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
- Add to basket
-
Collected Poems 1954 (Day Lewis)
- £12.00
- C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He was also the father of celebrated actor Sir Daniel Day-Lewis.
- Add to basket
-
Crow Steered Bergs Appeared: a memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Ted Hughes and Lucas Myers met at Cambridge University in January 1955. They maintained a close friendship until Hughes' death on 22 October 1988. Myers was also a friend of Sylvia Plath and various other family members. His memoir draws on his forty-year correspondence with Hughes and discusses Birthday Letters,…
- Add to basket
-
Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow
- £50.00
- Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge…
- Add to basket
-
Demeter and other poems
- £200.00
- 1st edition of Tennyson's poem Demeter and others including a celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1887.
- Add to basket
-
Difficulties of a Bridegroom
- £25.00
- A collection of stories by the the great poet including others the fable "O'Kelly's Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II. Why it has to say 'Poet Laureate of England' (rather than UK) on the cover, though,…
- Add to basket
-
Dwell (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history and mystery coexist. The reawakened landscape with…
- Add to basket
-
End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
- Add to basket
-
End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
- Add to basket
-
Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
- Add to basket
-
Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
- Add to basket
-
Grace before Ploughing: Fragments of Autobiography
- £15.00
- Written the year before his death and subtitled 'Fragments of Autobiography', the book contains memories of Masefield's early years in Herefordshire, as well as some other key moments of his life.
- Add to basket
-
How the Whale Became and other stories
- £100.00
- This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar…
- Add to basket
-
I Want! I Want!
- £15.00
- The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.
- Add to basket
-
Jim Davis
- £8.00
- Masefield's novel for children
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket