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
- £12.00
- 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 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 Mainsail Haul
- £30.00
- Beautiful antholoyg of Masefield's poems from 1905, Frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats
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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…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £14.00
- Lord Birkenhead's famous compilation made publishing history when first published, has sold over two million copies.
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
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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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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
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Lupercal
- £120.00
- Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
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LX (SIGNED, Limited)
- £35.00
- In a signed, limited edition, to mark Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs birthday, LX collects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces reflect a long querulous relationship explored through ingenious workings…
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Martin Hyde, the Duke’s Messenger
- £80.00
- After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England. With 16 b/w plates.
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Masefield’s Collected Poems (signed)
- £180.00
- Masefield's collection in rare limited edition (500 for sale, 30 for presentation)
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Maud and Other Poems
- £25.00
- Collection includes one of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Moortown
- £40.00
- Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979. The author, poet Ted Hughes, married Carol Orchard, a farmer's daughter, in 1970. Ted and his father-in-law, Jack Orchard, ran Moortown farm near Winkleigh in Mid Devon. The book contains a moving…
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Multitude and Solitude
- £15.00
- Sometimes an actor hesitated for his lines, forgot a few words, or improvised others. He drew in his breath sharply, whenever this happened, it was like a false note in music, but he knew that he was the only person there who felt the discord. He found himself admiring the…
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New Cemetery (SIGNED, BLACK)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Cemetery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
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October and other poems, with occasional verses on the war
- £15.00
- Bridges had become Poet Laureate in 1913 and inevitably the First World War preoccupied much of his writing subsequently. He, along with several other writers, worked at the War Propaganda Bureau in Wellington House.
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Poems in the Porch
- £20.00
- Poems on ecclesiastical themes, written for broadcasting on Western Region radio, at request of Martin Willson, Director of Religious Broadcasting.
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Queenhood (Signed, limited edition)
- £50.00
- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
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Rain Charm for the Duchy: And Other Laureate Poems
- £60.00
- In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects these…
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Rain Charm for the Duchy: And Other Laureate Poems
- £16.00
- In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects these…
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Right Royal
- £9.00
- In 1920, Masefield published three long narrative poems which dealt with man's relationship with the natural world, of which this was the second. The others were Reynard the Fox and King Cole
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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right. They vary from single poems, such as 'Zodiac T Shirt', written…
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Sea Life in Nelson’s Time
- £10.00
- Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for…
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Silver: Return to Treasure Island (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high…
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Simon ArmitageÕs Òcompulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited versionÓ (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers Òa brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetryÓ (Poetry Review) that Òrecreates the originalÕs gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its tableaux and…
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Sonnets & Poems
- £35.00
- A collection of 47 poems privately published by the poet during the First World War.
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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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Summoned by Bells
- £35.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
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Summoned by Bells
- £60.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail his formative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of…
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Summoned by Bells
- £15.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
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Tales of the Early World
- £40.00
- In this collection of tales from Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. Beautifully illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
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Ted Hughes, a Bibliography, 1946-1980
- £20.00
- The first attempt at a Hughes bibliography, this was then supplemented by a later edition in 1998 (after Hughes' death in 1988).
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The Best of Betjeman
- £15.00
- John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an ever-expanding readership. From beneath his sparkling wit and deceptively simple nostalgia, Betjeman emerges as the authority on a…
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The Bluebells and Other Verse
- £10.00
- Excerpt: To wrest such bounty out of sun and soil? What starved imagination ached to feed? What harassed heart implored for an assoil?
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The Collected Poems of John Masefield (New and Enlarged Edition) – signed
- £200.00
- The new and enlarged edition of Masefield's original 1923 collection, including incidental poems from Sard Harker, Odraa, and The 'Wanderer', together with the poetic volume Midsummer Night. (166pp of additional matter).
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The Death of Oenone, Akbar’s Dream, and other poems
- £25.00
- Published in the year of Tennyson's death, a collection of poetry from his earliest to later work. A first edition of this collection of poetry by Tennyson. Including June Bracken and Heather, Kapiolani, The Dreamer, St. Telemachus and many others.
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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 Hawk in the Rain
- £120.00
- Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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The Hawk in the Rain
- £130.00
- Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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The Iron Woman
- £35.00
- Mankind has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who…
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The Silent Woman – Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes
- £25.00
- Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, renowned writer Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame, to discover how Plath became an…
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The Street of Today
- £60.00
- John Masefield's 8th novel from the first decade of his writing life.
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The Testament of Beauty, a poem in four books
- £25.00
- Robert Bridges (1844-1930) was a physician until illness forced him to retire, after which he dedicated himself to writing. He sought to 'free' verse through basing verse and metre on syllables rather than accents, a pattern he developed in Testament of Beauty (1929) for which he was appointed to the…
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The Wanderer of Liverpool
- £10.00
- Masefield's classic retelling of the story of The Wanderer, a Liverpool-built barque that was wrecked in the Elbe estuary in 1907. Incl poems at end.
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The Widow in the Bye Street
- £15.00
- After years of writing little, Masefield had a new impetus in 1911 when he published the first of his narrative poems, The Everlasting Mercy. Two more followed in 1912, of which The Widow in the Bye Street was the 1st. As a result of these three, he was awarded the…
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Tiresias, and other poems
- £15.00
- First edition of this collection from towards the end of Tennyson's life (dedicated to Robert Browning), including The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, Helen's Tower, Epitaph on Caxton.
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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
- £12.00
- 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 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 Mainsail Haul
- £30.00
- Beautiful antholoyg of Masefield's poems from 1905, Frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats
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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…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £14.00
- Lord Birkenhead's famous compilation made publishing history when first published, has sold over two million copies.
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
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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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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
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Lupercal
- £120.00
- Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
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LX (SIGNED, Limited)
- £35.00
- In a signed, limited edition, to mark Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs birthday, LX collects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces reflect a long querulous relationship explored through ingenious workings…
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Martin Hyde, the Duke’s Messenger
- £80.00
- After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England. With 16 b/w plates.
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Masefield’s Collected Poems (signed)
- £180.00
- Masefield's collection in rare limited edition (500 for sale, 30 for presentation)
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Maud and Other Poems
- £25.00
- Collection includes one of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Moortown
- £40.00
- Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979. The author, poet Ted Hughes, married Carol Orchard, a farmer's daughter, in 1970. Ted and his father-in-law, Jack Orchard, ran Moortown farm near Winkleigh in Mid Devon. The book contains a moving…
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Multitude and Solitude
- £15.00
- Sometimes an actor hesitated for his lines, forgot a few words, or improvised others. He drew in his breath sharply, whenever this happened, it was like a false note in music, but he knew that he was the only person there who felt the discord. He found himself admiring the…
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New Cemetery (SIGNED, BLACK)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Cemetery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
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October and other poems, with occasional verses on the war
- £15.00
- Bridges had become Poet Laureate in 1913 and inevitably the First World War preoccupied much of his writing subsequently. He, along with several other writers, worked at the War Propaganda Bureau in Wellington House.
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Poems in the Porch
- £20.00
- Poems on ecclesiastical themes, written for broadcasting on Western Region radio, at request of Martin Willson, Director of Religious Broadcasting.
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Queenhood (Signed, limited edition)
- £50.00
- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
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Rain Charm for the Duchy: And Other Laureate Poems
- £60.00
- In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects these…
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Rain Charm for the Duchy: And Other Laureate Poems
- £16.00
- In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects these…
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Right Royal
- £9.00
- In 1920, Masefield published three long narrative poems which dealt with man's relationship with the natural world, of which this was the second. The others were Reynard the Fox and King Cole
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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right. They vary from single poems, such as 'Zodiac T Shirt', written…
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Sea Life in Nelson’s Time
- £10.00
- Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for…
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Silver: Return to Treasure Island (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high…
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Simon ArmitageÕs Òcompulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited versionÓ (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers Òa brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetryÓ (Poetry Review) that Òrecreates the originalÕs gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its tableaux and…
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Sonnets & Poems
- £35.00
- A collection of 47 poems privately published by the poet during the First World War.
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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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Summoned by Bells
- £35.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
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Summoned by Bells
- £60.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail his formative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of…
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Summoned by Bells
- £15.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
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Tales of the Early World
- £40.00
- In this collection of tales from Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. Beautifully illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
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Ted Hughes, a Bibliography, 1946-1980
- £20.00
- The first attempt at a Hughes bibliography, this was then supplemented by a later edition in 1998 (after Hughes' death in 1988).
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The Best of Betjeman
- £15.00
- John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an ever-expanding readership. From beneath his sparkling wit and deceptively simple nostalgia, Betjeman emerges as the authority on a…
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The Bluebells and Other Verse
- £10.00
- Excerpt: To wrest such bounty out of sun and soil? What starved imagination ached to feed? What harassed heart implored for an assoil?
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The Collected Poems of John Masefield (New and Enlarged Edition) – signed
- £200.00
- The new and enlarged edition of Masefield's original 1923 collection, including incidental poems from Sard Harker, Odraa, and The 'Wanderer', together with the poetic volume Midsummer Night. (166pp of additional matter).
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The Death of Oenone, Akbar’s Dream, and other poems
- £25.00
- Published in the year of Tennyson's death, a collection of poetry from his earliest to later work. A first edition of this collection of poetry by Tennyson. Including June Bracken and Heather, Kapiolani, The Dreamer, St. Telemachus and many others.
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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 Hawk in the Rain
- £120.00
- Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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The Hawk in the Rain
- £130.00
- Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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The Iron Woman
- £35.00
- Mankind has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who…
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The Silent Woman – Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes
- £25.00
- Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, renowned writer Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame, to discover how Plath became an…
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The Street of Today
- £60.00
- John Masefield's 8th novel from the first decade of his writing life.
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The Testament of Beauty, a poem in four books
- £25.00
- Robert Bridges (1844-1930) was a physician until illness forced him to retire, after which he dedicated himself to writing. He sought to 'free' verse through basing verse and metre on syllables rather than accents, a pattern he developed in Testament of Beauty (1929) for which he was appointed to the…
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The Wanderer of Liverpool
- £10.00
- Masefield's classic retelling of the story of The Wanderer, a Liverpool-built barque that was wrecked in the Elbe estuary in 1907. Incl poems at end.
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The Widow in the Bye Street
- £15.00
- After years of writing little, Masefield had a new impetus in 1911 when he published the first of his narrative poems, The Everlasting Mercy. Two more followed in 1912, of which The Widow in the Bye Street was the 1st. As a result of these three, he was awarded the…
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Tiresias, and other poems
- £15.00
- First edition of this collection from towards the end of Tennyson's life (dedicated to Robert Browning), including The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, Helen's Tower, Epitaph on Caxton.
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