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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
- £30.00
- Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a…
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The Origin of Loneliness: Poems and Short Stories in Five Moods
- £55.00
- A Collection of poems and short stories, grouped into five themes: travel, war, philosophy, love and death. John Martin became a medical doctor after studying in humanities, becoming Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London.
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The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation
- £40.00
- Designed 'both for Greekless readers and for those who require help in reading and appreaiting the origiinal. Every piece in the Greek book is translated, usually into verse; but specimens are also giving of prose translations by Henry Fielding, Walter pater, Samuel Butler, T. E. Lawrence, and others. Altogether about…
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The Oxford Book of Local Verses
- £15.00
- This delightful anthology is a treasure-house of England's heritage of popular verse, written by long forgotten local poets whose surviving work enriches our understanding of local customs and attitudes in much the same way that 'local 'cooking' describes the flavor of a region. Local verses have been perpetuated in a…
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The Oxford Book Of Twentieth Century English Verse
- £20.00
- Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman and W.H. Auden, it was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of…
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The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
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The Poems of Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- World's Classics series XVI: Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot (vols I & II) – the annotated text
- £100.00
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over…
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The Poems of W. H. Davies 1940
- £50.00
- Published the year Davies died, this volume contains the whole of The Poems of W.H. Davies, 1934, and also all the subsequent poems which Mr. Davies has published, in Love Poems (1935), The Birth of Song (1936) and The Loneliest Mountain (1939). It is therefore a complete collection of the…
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Oxford Edition)
- £40.00
- Originally published with Forman's editing and notes in 1906.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (with a memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes)
- £35.00
- A new edition after the original in 1854, with the memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes
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The Poetical Works of John Milton
- £35.00
- OUP republished their 1904 edition of Milton's poetry in 1938, but also included translations of Milton's Italian, Latin and Greek poems from the Columbia University Guide by W. Skeat.
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The Poetical Works of John Milton (The Albion Edition), With Introductory Memoir, Notes, Bibliography, Etc.
- £50.00
- An anthology of Milton's poetry including Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, his Latin verse as well as his own translations.
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £95.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £50.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
- £40.00
- Albion edition including introduction and notes
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The Primrose Path
- £25.00
- UK edition of Nash's work drawing pieces from his 'The Primrose Path' and 'Happy Days' as well as a number of other subsequent pieces.
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The Road to Ruin
- £22.00
- A brief collection from 1933 containing six poems on the horror of modern warfare, introduced by a quotation from Albert Einstein. Printed on recto only.
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- £150.00
- Beautiful edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883). Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Willy Pogany (1882-1955) prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books.
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- £12.00
- Beautifully illustrated version of famous translation by Fitzgerald (1809-1883). Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Gilbert James.
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The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym (Folio Society)
- £15.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883). Omar Khayym (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Virgil Burnett.
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The Seven Seas
- £35.00
- The Seven Seas is a book of poetry by Rudyard Kipling published 1896. Poems include The Lost Legion.
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The Shadow Knows: Poems 2000-2004
- £35.00
- The official elegy for Princess Margaret was the last straw. There had to be an antidote: a poet who would stalk the powerful, the pretentious and the sycophantic. The socialist magazine Red Pepper invited Adrian Mitchell to don the dreaded costume of The Shadow Poet Laureate and write regular people's…
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The Shepherd and other poems of Peace and War
- £60.00
- Edmund Blunden's first poem appeared in 1914; but it was this volume, The Shepherd published in 1922, that made his reputation. He is now regarded as one of the best Georgians, a man deeply acquainted with that tradition of English poetry, and a poet of quiet authority and haunting imagination…
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The Siege of Corinth; Parisina
- £150.00
- Byron's two narrative poems. The Siege of Corinth is a rhymed tragic poem inspired by the Ottoman massacre of the Venetian garrison holding the Acrocorinth in 1715. Parisina narrates the sordid tale of the wife of one of the Dukes of Ferrara who had incestuous relationship with his bastard son…
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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 Song of Love
- £20.00
- Davies' style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The Song of Love was published three years after his marriage at 52 to Helen Payne.
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The Song of the Sword & Other Poems
- £50.00
- The second anthology of Henley’s poetry, which was published in 2nd edition as London Voluntaries in 1893
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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 Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
- £60.00
- The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands,…
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
- £30.00
- Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a…
- Add to basket
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The Origin of Loneliness: Poems and Short Stories in Five Moods
- £55.00
- A Collection of poems and short stories, grouped into five themes: travel, war, philosophy, love and death. John Martin became a medical doctor after studying in humanities, becoming Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London.
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The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation
- £40.00
- Designed 'both for Greekless readers and for those who require help in reading and appreaiting the origiinal. Every piece in the Greek book is translated, usually into verse; but specimens are also giving of prose translations by Henry Fielding, Walter pater, Samuel Butler, T. E. Lawrence, and others. Altogether about…
- Add to basket
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The Oxford Book of Local Verses
- £15.00
- This delightful anthology is a treasure-house of England's heritage of popular verse, written by long forgotten local poets whose surviving work enriches our understanding of local customs and attitudes in much the same way that 'local 'cooking' describes the flavor of a region. Local verses have been perpetuated in a…
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book Of Twentieth Century English Verse
- £20.00
- Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman and W.H. Auden, it was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of…
- Add to basket
-
The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
- Add to basket
-
The Poems of Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- World's Classics series XVI: Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
- Add to basket
-
The Poems of T. S. Eliot (vols I & II) – the annotated text
- £100.00
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over…
- Add to basket
-
The Poems of W. H. Davies 1940
- £50.00
- Published the year Davies died, this volume contains the whole of The Poems of W.H. Davies, 1934, and also all the subsequent poems which Mr. Davies has published, in Love Poems (1935), The Birth of Song (1936) and The Loneliest Mountain (1939). It is therefore a complete collection of the…
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of John Keats (Oxford Edition)
- £40.00
- Originally published with Forman's editing and notes in 1906.
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of John Keats (with a memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes)
- £35.00
- A new edition after the original in 1854, with the memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of John Milton
- £35.00
- OUP republished their 1904 edition of Milton's poetry in 1938, but also included translations of Milton's Italian, Latin and Greek poems from the Columbia University Guide by W. Skeat.
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of John Milton (The Albion Edition), With Introductory Memoir, Notes, Bibliography, Etc.
- £50.00
- An anthology of Milton's poetry including Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, his Latin verse as well as his own translations.
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £95.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £50.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
- Add to basket
-
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
- £40.00
- Albion edition including introduction and notes
- Add to basket
-
The Primrose Path
- £25.00
- UK edition of Nash's work drawing pieces from his 'The Primrose Path' and 'Happy Days' as well as a number of other subsequent pieces.
- Add to basket
-
The Road to Ruin
- £22.00
- A brief collection from 1933 containing six poems on the horror of modern warfare, introduced by a quotation from Albert Einstein. Printed on recto only.
- Add to basket
-
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- £150.00
- Beautiful edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883). Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Willy Pogany (1882-1955) prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books.
- Add to basket
-
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- £12.00
- Beautifully illustrated version of famous translation by Fitzgerald (1809-1883). Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Gilbert James.
- Add to basket
-
The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym (Folio Society)
- £15.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883). Omar Khayym (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Virgil Burnett.
- Add to basket
-
The Seven Seas
- £35.00
- The Seven Seas is a book of poetry by Rudyard Kipling published 1896. Poems include The Lost Legion.
- Add to basket
-
The Shadow Knows: Poems 2000-2004
- £35.00
- The official elegy for Princess Margaret was the last straw. There had to be an antidote: a poet who would stalk the powerful, the pretentious and the sycophantic. The socialist magazine Red Pepper invited Adrian Mitchell to don the dreaded costume of The Shadow Poet Laureate and write regular people's…
- Add to basket
-
The Shepherd and other poems of Peace and War
- £60.00
- Edmund Blunden's first poem appeared in 1914; but it was this volume, The Shepherd published in 1922, that made his reputation. He is now regarded as one of the best Georgians, a man deeply acquainted with that tradition of English poetry, and a poet of quiet authority and haunting imagination…
- Add to basket
-
The Siege of Corinth; Parisina
- £150.00
- Byron's two narrative poems. The Siege of Corinth is a rhymed tragic poem inspired by the Ottoman massacre of the Venetian garrison holding the Acrocorinth in 1715. Parisina narrates the sordid tale of the wife of one of the Dukes of Ferrara who had incestuous relationship with his bastard son…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
The Song of Love
- £20.00
- Davies' style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The Song of Love was published three years after his marriage at 52 to Helen Payne.
- Add to basket
-
The Song of the Sword & Other Poems
- £50.00
- The second anthology of Henley’s poetry, which was published in 2nd edition as London Voluntaries in 1893
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
- £60.00
- The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands,…
- Add to basket