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“1914” Five Sonnets
- £120.00
- Published in his lifetime, this little anthology includes one of his best-loved poems, The Soldier
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1914 & Other Poems
- £7.00
- Early collection of Rupert Brooke's war poetry including the 1914 poems, The South Seas, and Grantchester.
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4 Greek Women: Love Poems (Greek Women Poets Series)
- £15.00
- A collection of poems by 4 Greek women: Eleni Fourtouni (who edited and translated the poems into English); Victoria Theodorou; Angeliki Pavlopoulou; Katerina Angelaki-Rooke. Dedicated to 'all the Aegean Women'
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40 Sonnets (SIGNED Faber Members Ed)
- £75.00
- Winner: 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD: 40 Sonnets is the new collection by Don Paterson, a rich and accomplished work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.…
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73 Poems
- £55.00
- Composed between 1958 and his death in 1962, this was the last published collection by E. E. Cummings. It contains some of his surest and most characteristic work.Much has been made of his innovations in typography and punctuation, which have been often misunderstood as mere 'effects'. But it is evident…
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A Choice of Kipling’s Verse
- £15.00
- Eliot's anthology on Kipling, including his essay about the poet.
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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
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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 Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
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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 Masque of Reason (& A Masque of Mercy)
- £20.00
- Contains two so-called "New England Biblicals" (A Masque of Reason - 1945, A Masque of Mercy - 1947), plus Steeple Bush and other poems. The title piece is a comedy purporting to be a missing chapter of Job, while the Masque of Mercy takes on the story of Jonah.
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A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
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A Row of Pharaohs
- £30.00
- Patrick Creagh was a British poet and translator who lived for many years in Italy. This is his first volume of poems, and was a choice of the Poetry Book Society
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A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
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A Shropshire Lad
- £30.00
- Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for this cycle of poems. This made him one of the best-loved of his day, his verse demonstrating a simplicity of form that belied its hidden complexities. Haunting woodcut illustrations from…
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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
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An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
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An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
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An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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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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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
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Auden
- £25.00
- ÔThis is a terrific life of an intriguing poet by one of our great biographers.Õ Ð London Standard. Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This forthright biography explores the evolution of his poetic voice in tandem with…
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
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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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Barley Barley
- £25.00
- A collection of original poems by the author of "Conkers", which deals with the lives and experiences of young children and teenagers.
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Behind the lines, a book of poems
- £50.00
- Milne's poems written during the first 9 months of the 2nd World War; dedicated to his son Christopher: 'scholar of Trinity, and by the time this appears, with any luck, private in the Royal Engineers.'
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Behold this Dreamer – of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, …
- £50.00
- Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled five of them, with commentaries, using poems and passages of prose. To each he brought such a range of reading, wisdom…
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Beowulf
- £25.00
- The Anglo-Saxon classic, probably written in the eighth century, which is one of the world's most famous epics. The story is retold in rhythmical and quick-paced prose. Introduction by Bruce Mitchell and lithographs by Virgil Burnett. 125 pages including genealogical tables and list of proper names.
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Beowulf: a new translation
- £12.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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Beowulf: a new translation (SIGNED)
- £650.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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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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Better than God (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or…
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Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
- £25.00
- Baghdad throughout the Abbasid dynasty, was the centre of Arab-Muslim culture where the assimilation of Persian, Indian and Greek writing and thought produced a rich and diverse literature. The three poets represented in this volume wrote between the eighth and tenth centuries AD, and range in mood from serious speculation…
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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
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- 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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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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Buff
- £20.00
- One of two poetry volumes Fuller published in 1965. He would become Oxford's Professor of Poetry in 1968, held until 1973. In 1966, Anthony Powell would dedicated the 8th volume of his masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, The Soldier's Art, to Fuller.
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Bunga Emas: contemporary Malaysian Literature (1930-1963)
- £25.00
- Bunga Emas means Golden Flower in Malay, and this anthology includes many pieces originally written in English as well as those translated from Chinese and Tamil, by 22 Malaysian writers.
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Cast in the Fire. Poems
- £30.00
- The first collection of Irish poet Greg Delanty. Irish novelist Colum McCann, who has himself resettled in America, described Delanty as the "poet laureate of the contemporary Irish-in-America". McCann said: "Delanty has catalogued an entire generation and its relationship to exile. He is the laureate of those who have gone".
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Caught in the Quiet
- £9.00
- Rodney Marvin McKuen (1933Ð2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned…
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Cecil Roberts: Selected Poems 1910-1960
- £18.00
- Cecil Roberts was born in Nottingham in 1892. He began his career as a civil servant, then moved into journalism at The Evening Post. From 1915 Ð 1919 he was literary editor of the Liverpool Post. During the Great War. He was also a special correspondent for the British services.…
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Chaucer (Chesterton’s Biographies)
- £13.00
- Chesterton expounds the genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were more sane, more normal and more cheerful than writers that came after him' and the characters he portrayed have an immediate contemporary relevance.…
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, canto the fourth
- £50.00
- Byron's long narrative poem was written in four parts and published between 1812 and 1818. In Canto IV, Harold leaves Venice to travel through Italy lamenting the vanished heroic past.
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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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City Songs
- £15.00
- Scottish poet but apart from that I know nothing!
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City Without Walls and other poems
- £30.00
- Contains Auden's shorter poems written from 1965 to 1968, together with his translations of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and a few poems written earlier. Among the best-known poems in the book are the title poem, "The Horatians", "Amor Loci", "Forty Years On", "Partition", "August, 1968", "Fairground", "River…
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Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset
- £25.00
- A vivid, detailed picture of the period Coleridge and Wordsworth in the beautiful Quantock countryside in Somerset. This period was of major importance to Coleridge and Wordsworth as poets, particularly the year July 1797 to July 1798 that they spent near to each other.
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets 2-set SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This two-volume boxed set, of Peter Porter covers 40 years of this poet's work, since his first book was published in England in 1961. Since then 14 collections have followed, including (in Volume 1 1961-1981) the translations of "Martial", and "The Cost of Seriousness" . "The Automatic Oracle" which won…
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £45.00
- This collection of Peter Porter's work includes the majority of his poems published between 1961 and 1981, which gained him eight Book of the Year awards from the Poetry Book Society and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1983. They are grouped chronologically under the titles of his eight books…
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Collected Poems (Sassoon)
- £20.00
- Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his…
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Collected Poems 1909-1935
- £45.00
- Contents: Prufrock - 1917; Poems - 1920; The Waste Land - 1922; The Hollow Men - 1925; Ash-Wednesday - 1930; Ariel Poems; Unfinished Poems; Minor Poems; Choruses from 'The Rock'; Burnt Norton.
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Collected Poems 1909-1935
- £20.00
- An early anthology of Eliot's poetry, published in this form in Faber paper covered editions in 1958.
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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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Collected Poems 1958-2015 (Clive James)
- £25.00
- The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awards for decades. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life have brought him an even wider readership; some, such as "Japanese Maple" (first published in The New Yorker), became global news events upon their publication. In…
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £10.00
- Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £15.00
- Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £15.00
- 2nd impression a month after 1st thus edition. Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Continual Dew, a little book of bourgeois verse
- £25.00
- Facsimile edition of Betjeman's second book of verse but the first to have wide readership (first published in 1937, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings.
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Coridon’s Song and Other Verses
- £20.00
- Excerpt from Coridon's Song, and Other Verses From Various Sources: For Courts are full of flattery, As hath too oft been tried; heigh trolollie lollie loe, heigh trolollie lee, The City full of wantonness and both are full of pride Then care away, and wend along with me.
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çr R Dhearil Agus Dnta Eile
- £30.00
- î Direin was, in the words of Louis de Paor, "one of a trinity of poets who revolutionised Irish language poetry in the 1940s and 50s." According to a 1984 lecture by Desmond Egan, "î Direin's genius stands revealed - to the extent that we must look abroad for poets…
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Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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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Cursory Rhymes
- £20.00
- Poetry from a writer considered as a potential poet laureate later in his life, some very funny
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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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Democracy and the Arts
- £20.00
- Brooke's essay was first written in 1910 as an address to the Cambridge Fabian Society of which Brooke was president while up at King's. Only published posthumously in 1946.
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
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Derek Mahon Poems 1962-1978
- £60.00
- Derek Mahon (1941Ð2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President…
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
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Deutsch-Englische Begegnung – English-German Reconciliation Ottobeuren – Coventry
- £14.00
- Commemorative publication for the performance of Britten's War Requiem on Sept 6 1964, in Ottobeuren and Coventry, in German and English. Leicht unfrisch. Gedenkschrift fr die Auffhrung des "War Requiem" vom Benjamin Britten am 6. September 1964 in Ottobeuren! - Beiliegend das Programm des Konzertes.
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Diary of One Who Vanished
- £50.00
- Introduction by Seamus Heany. Leos Janacek discovered the poems he was to set in his song cycle 'Diary of one who vanished' (1917) in his local paper. They tell the story of a man who abandons his home because of his sexual infatuation with a gypsy. These new English versions…
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District and Circle
- £15.00
- Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been…
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Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
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Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
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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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Earth Hour (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon In his first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music in 2007, David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia's most enduring and respected writers. David Malouf's new collection comes to rest at the perfect,…
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East Coker
- £35.00
- The first part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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East Coker
- £30.00
- The first part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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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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English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
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Essex Clay
- £20.00
- Andrew Motion's prose memoir, In the Blood (2006), was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to familial love' (Independent). Now, having left UK shores and the bounds of his laureateship, Motion looks back once more to recreate a stunning biographical sequel -…
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Etched by Silence: a pilgrimage through the poetry of R.S. Thomas
- £12.00
- This collection of poems by Wales' most famous poet-priest, R S Thomas, is interspersed with short reflections and questions for exploration that connect the timeless poetry to the landscape that inspired it. Originally produced locally for visitors to the North Wales village and church where R S Thomas was the…
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Excursus in Autumn
- £15.00
- The follow up to John Smith's previous volume, The Birth Of Venus
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Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
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Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
- £75.00
- Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems is a collection of Japanese poetry by master poet, Hagiwara Sakutaro. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement…
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“1914” Five Sonnets
- £120.00
- Published in his lifetime, this little anthology includes one of his best-loved poems, The Soldier
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1914 & Other Poems
- £7.00
- Early collection of Rupert Brooke's war poetry including the 1914 poems, The South Seas, and Grantchester.
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4 Greek Women: Love Poems (Greek Women Poets Series)
- £15.00
- A collection of poems by 4 Greek women: Eleni Fourtouni (who edited and translated the poems into English); Victoria Theodorou; Angeliki Pavlopoulou; Katerina Angelaki-Rooke. Dedicated to 'all the Aegean Women'
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40 Sonnets (SIGNED Faber Members Ed)
- £75.00
- Winner: 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD: 40 Sonnets is the new collection by Don Paterson, a rich and accomplished work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.…
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73 Poems
- £55.00
- Composed between 1958 and his death in 1962, this was the last published collection by E. E. Cummings. It contains some of his surest and most characteristic work.Much has been made of his innovations in typography and punctuation, which have been often misunderstood as mere 'effects'. But it is evident…
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A Choice of Kipling’s Verse
- £15.00
- Eliot's anthology on Kipling, including his essay about the poet.
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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
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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 Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
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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 Masque of Reason (& A Masque of Mercy)
- £20.00
- Contains two so-called "New England Biblicals" (A Masque of Reason - 1945, A Masque of Mercy - 1947), plus Steeple Bush and other poems. The title piece is a comedy purporting to be a missing chapter of Job, while the Masque of Mercy takes on the story of Jonah.
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A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
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A Row of Pharaohs
- £30.00
- Patrick Creagh was a British poet and translator who lived for many years in Italy. This is his first volume of poems, and was a choice of the Poetry Book Society
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A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
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A Shropshire Lad
- £30.00
- Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for this cycle of poems. This made him one of the best-loved of his day, his verse demonstrating a simplicity of form that belied its hidden complexities. Haunting woodcut illustrations from…
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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
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An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
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An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
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An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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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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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
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Auden
- £25.00
- ÔThis is a terrific life of an intriguing poet by one of our great biographers.Õ Ð London Standard. Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This forthright biography explores the evolution of his poetic voice in tandem with…
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
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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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Barley Barley
- £25.00
- A collection of original poems by the author of "Conkers", which deals with the lives and experiences of young children and teenagers.
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Behind the lines, a book of poems
- £50.00
- Milne's poems written during the first 9 months of the 2nd World War; dedicated to his son Christopher: 'scholar of Trinity, and by the time this appears, with any luck, private in the Royal Engineers.'
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Behold this Dreamer – of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, …
- £50.00
- Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled five of them, with commentaries, using poems and passages of prose. To each he brought such a range of reading, wisdom…
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Beowulf
- £25.00
- The Anglo-Saxon classic, probably written in the eighth century, which is one of the world's most famous epics. The story is retold in rhythmical and quick-paced prose. Introduction by Bruce Mitchell and lithographs by Virgil Burnett. 125 pages including genealogical tables and list of proper names.
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Beowulf: a new translation
- £12.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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Beowulf: a new translation (SIGNED)
- £650.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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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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Better than God (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or…
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Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
- £25.00
- Baghdad throughout the Abbasid dynasty, was the centre of Arab-Muslim culture where the assimilation of Persian, Indian and Greek writing and thought produced a rich and diverse literature. The three poets represented in this volume wrote between the eighth and tenth centuries AD, and range in mood from serious speculation…
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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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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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Buff
- £20.00
- One of two poetry volumes Fuller published in 1965. He would become Oxford's Professor of Poetry in 1968, held until 1973. In 1966, Anthony Powell would dedicated the 8th volume of his masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, The Soldier's Art, to Fuller.
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Bunga Emas: contemporary Malaysian Literature (1930-1963)
- £25.00
- Bunga Emas means Golden Flower in Malay, and this anthology includes many pieces originally written in English as well as those translated from Chinese and Tamil, by 22 Malaysian writers.
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Cast in the Fire. Poems
- £30.00
- The first collection of Irish poet Greg Delanty. Irish novelist Colum McCann, who has himself resettled in America, described Delanty as the "poet laureate of the contemporary Irish-in-America". McCann said: "Delanty has catalogued an entire generation and its relationship to exile. He is the laureate of those who have gone".
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Caught in the Quiet
- £9.00
- Rodney Marvin McKuen (1933Ð2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned…
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Cecil Roberts: Selected Poems 1910-1960
- £18.00
- Cecil Roberts was born in Nottingham in 1892. He began his career as a civil servant, then moved into journalism at The Evening Post. From 1915 Ð 1919 he was literary editor of the Liverpool Post. During the Great War. He was also a special correspondent for the British services.…
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Chaucer (Chesterton’s Biographies)
- £13.00
- Chesterton expounds the genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were more sane, more normal and more cheerful than writers that came after him' and the characters he portrayed have an immediate contemporary relevance.…
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, canto the fourth
- £50.00
- Byron's long narrative poem was written in four parts and published between 1812 and 1818. In Canto IV, Harold leaves Venice to travel through Italy lamenting the vanished heroic past.
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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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City Songs
- £15.00
- Scottish poet but apart from that I know nothing!
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City Without Walls and other poems
- £30.00
- Contains Auden's shorter poems written from 1965 to 1968, together with his translations of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and a few poems written earlier. Among the best-known poems in the book are the title poem, "The Horatians", "Amor Loci", "Forty Years On", "Partition", "August, 1968", "Fairground", "River…
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Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset
- £25.00
- A vivid, detailed picture of the period Coleridge and Wordsworth in the beautiful Quantock countryside in Somerset. This period was of major importance to Coleridge and Wordsworth as poets, particularly the year July 1797 to July 1798 that they spent near to each other.
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets 2-set SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This two-volume boxed set, of Peter Porter covers 40 years of this poet's work, since his first book was published in England in 1961. Since then 14 collections have followed, including (in Volume 1 1961-1981) the translations of "Martial", and "The Cost of Seriousness" . "The Automatic Oracle" which won…
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £45.00
- This collection of Peter Porter's work includes the majority of his poems published between 1961 and 1981, which gained him eight Book of the Year awards from the Poetry Book Society and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1983. They are grouped chronologically under the titles of his eight books…
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Collected Poems (Sassoon)
- £20.00
- Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his…
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Collected Poems 1909-1935
- £45.00
- Contents: Prufrock - 1917; Poems - 1920; The Waste Land - 1922; The Hollow Men - 1925; Ash-Wednesday - 1930; Ariel Poems; Unfinished Poems; Minor Poems; Choruses from 'The Rock'; Burnt Norton.
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Collected Poems 1909-1935
- £20.00
- An early anthology of Eliot's poetry, published in this form in Faber paper covered editions in 1958.
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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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Collected Poems 1958-2015 (Clive James)
- £25.00
- The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awards for decades. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life have brought him an even wider readership; some, such as "Japanese Maple" (first published in The New Yorker), became global news events upon their publication. In…
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £10.00
- Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £15.00
- Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £15.00
- 2nd impression a month after 1st thus edition. Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Continual Dew, a little book of bourgeois verse
- £25.00
- Facsimile edition of Betjeman's second book of verse but the first to have wide readership (first published in 1937, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings.
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Coridon’s Song and Other Verses
- £20.00
- Excerpt from Coridon's Song, and Other Verses From Various Sources: For Courts are full of flattery, As hath too oft been tried; heigh trolollie lollie loe, heigh trolollie lee, The City full of wantonness and both are full of pride Then care away, and wend along with me.
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çr R Dhearil Agus Dnta Eile
- £30.00
- î Direin was, in the words of Louis de Paor, "one of a trinity of poets who revolutionised Irish language poetry in the 1940s and 50s." According to a 1984 lecture by Desmond Egan, "î Direin's genius stands revealed - to the extent that we must look abroad for poets…
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Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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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Cursory Rhymes
- £20.00
- Poetry from a writer considered as a potential poet laureate later in his life, some very funny
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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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Democracy and the Arts
- £20.00
- Brooke's essay was first written in 1910 as an address to the Cambridge Fabian Society of which Brooke was president while up at King's. Only published posthumously in 1946.
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
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Derek Mahon Poems 1962-1978
- £60.00
- Derek Mahon (1941Ð2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President…
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
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Deutsch-Englische Begegnung – English-German Reconciliation Ottobeuren – Coventry
- £14.00
- Commemorative publication for the performance of Britten's War Requiem on Sept 6 1964, in Ottobeuren and Coventry, in German and English. Leicht unfrisch. Gedenkschrift fr die Auffhrung des "War Requiem" vom Benjamin Britten am 6. September 1964 in Ottobeuren! - Beiliegend das Programm des Konzertes.
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Diary of One Who Vanished
- £50.00
- Introduction by Seamus Heany. Leos Janacek discovered the poems he was to set in his song cycle 'Diary of one who vanished' (1917) in his local paper. They tell the story of a man who abandons his home because of his sexual infatuation with a gypsy. These new English versions…
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District and Circle
- £15.00
- Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been…
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Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
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Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
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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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Earth Hour (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon In his first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music in 2007, David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia's most enduring and respected writers. David Malouf's new collection comes to rest at the perfect,…
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East Coker
- £35.00
- The first part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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East Coker
- £30.00
- The first part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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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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English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
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Essex Clay
- £20.00
- Andrew Motion's prose memoir, In the Blood (2006), was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to familial love' (Independent). Now, having left UK shores and the bounds of his laureateship, Motion looks back once more to recreate a stunning biographical sequel -…
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Etched by Silence: a pilgrimage through the poetry of R.S. Thomas
- £12.00
- This collection of poems by Wales' most famous poet-priest, R S Thomas, is interspersed with short reflections and questions for exploration that connect the timeless poetry to the landscape that inspired it. Originally produced locally for visitors to the North Wales village and church where R S Thomas was the…
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Excursus in Autumn
- £15.00
- The follow up to John Smith's previous volume, The Birth Of Venus
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Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
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Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
- £75.00
- Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems is a collection of Japanese poetry by master poet, Hagiwara Sakutaro. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement…
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