poetry
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
- £25.00
- These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees and Growltiger! With illustrations by Nicholas Bentley
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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first 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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Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008
- £16.00
- Opal Sunset gathers together fifty years of Clive James's poetry, and will undoubtedly enhance his reputation as one of the most versatile and accomplished of contemporary writers. Indeed -- as with Other Passports, The Book of My Enemy and Angels Over Elsinore before it -- Opal Sunset proves Clive James…
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Open Shutters – poems
- £12.00
- Mary Jo Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit and Baltimore. She was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities and worked as a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly and as poetry editor of The New Republic . A vice president of the Poetry Society…
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Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96
- £18.00
- This volume was a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to…
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Orpheus: A Version of Raine Maria Rilke (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's translation offers a radiant and at times distressing version of the great work.
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Out of the World and Back: Into Hades And A Traveller In Time (two poems)
- £30.00
- Young was a scottish poet and minister in the Free Church of Scotland; after some years in Scotland, he moved to England which put him in touch with supportive literary circles in London, one of his closest champions being Viola Meynell. During the 1920s and into the early 1930s, YoungÕs…
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Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
- £50.00
- The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same…
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Paeans for Peter Porter (multiple SIGNED)
- £350.00
- A celebration for Peter Porter on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends, 16 February 1999 edited by his friend Anthony Thwaite. Included are Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D. J. Enright, U. A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David…
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
- £20.00
- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Paradise Lost
- £100.00
- Milton's great epic poem first published in 1667 with 10 books, then in 1674 with 12. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, as stated…
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Paradise Lost (facsimile) (PROVENANCE)
- £500.00
- In Ten Books, The text reproduced from the first edition of 1667, with an appendix containing the additions made in later issues and a monograph on the original publication of the poem.
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Paul Bunyan: the libretto of the opera
- £20.00
- Libretto for the operetta Paul Bunyan, the story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in a deliberately eclectic style. Spoken dialogue is interspersed with set numbers and interludes with narrative and guitar accompaniment. Although often light-hearted,…
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Peace Rhymes of a Padre
- £20.00
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (1883Ð1929) was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed "Woodbine Willie" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes to the soldiers he met, as well as spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. He became known for his poetry written for and…
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Penelope (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love. With an introduction by the author, this is Tom Stoppard in the voice of Odysseus's wife recalling how the Trojan War 'took away my husband for…
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
- £25.00
- These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees and Growltiger! With illustrations by Nicholas Bentley
- Add to basket
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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first 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…
- Add to basket
-
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008
- £16.00
- Opal Sunset gathers together fifty years of Clive James's poetry, and will undoubtedly enhance his reputation as one of the most versatile and accomplished of contemporary writers. Indeed -- as with Other Passports, The Book of My Enemy and Angels Over Elsinore before it -- Opal Sunset proves Clive James…
- Add to basket
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Open Shutters – poems
- £12.00
- Mary Jo Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit and Baltimore. She was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities and worked as a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly and as poetry editor of The New Republic . A vice president of the Poetry Society…
- Add to basket
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Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96
- £18.00
- This volume was a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to…
- Add to basket
-
Orpheus: A Version of Raine Maria Rilke (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's translation offers a radiant and at times distressing version of the great work.
- Add to basket
-
Out of the World and Back: Into Hades And A Traveller In Time (two poems)
- £30.00
- Young was a scottish poet and minister in the Free Church of Scotland; after some years in Scotland, he moved to England which put him in touch with supportive literary circles in London, one of his closest champions being Viola Meynell. During the 1920s and into the early 1930s, YoungÕs…
- Add to basket
-
Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
- £50.00
- The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same…
- Add to basket
-
Paeans for Peter Porter (multiple SIGNED)
- £350.00
- A celebration for Peter Porter on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends, 16 February 1999 edited by his friend Anthony Thwaite. Included are Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D. J. Enright, U. A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David…
- Add to basket
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
- £20.00
- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
- Add to basket
-
Paradise Lost
- £100.00
- Milton's great epic poem first published in 1667 with 10 books, then in 1674 with 12. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, as stated…
- Add to basket
-
Paradise Lost (facsimile) (PROVENANCE)
- £500.00
- In Ten Books, The text reproduced from the first edition of 1667, with an appendix containing the additions made in later issues and a monograph on the original publication of the poem.
- Add to basket
-
Paul Bunyan: the libretto of the opera
- £20.00
- Libretto for the operetta Paul Bunyan, the story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in a deliberately eclectic style. Spoken dialogue is interspersed with set numbers and interludes with narrative and guitar accompaniment. Although often light-hearted,…
- Add to basket
-
Peace Rhymes of a Padre
- £20.00
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (1883Ð1929) was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed "Woodbine Willie" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes to the soldiers he met, as well as spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. He became known for his poetry written for and…
- Add to basket
-
Penelope (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love. With an introduction by the author, this is Tom Stoppard in the voice of Odysseus's wife recalling how the Trojan War 'took away my husband for…
- Add to basket