poetry
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The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (SIGNED Rowse)
- £100.00
- Of interest perhaps primarily because Emilia Lanier was possibly Shakespeare's mistress (the dark lady). The poems are emblematic of much of the verse of the time. The introduction by AL Rowse makes a strong case for Lanier as the famous Dark Lady.
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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 Top 500 Poems (A Columbia Anthology)
- £40.00
- The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces, John Donne's complex originality, and Alexander…
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The Traveller
- £100.00
- Walter John de la Mare OM CH (1873Ð1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". This philosophical…
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The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
- £30.00
- Eliot's 1932-33 Norton Lectures at Harvard are among the best and most important of his critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition…
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The Waste Land and other poems
- £15.00
- Published in 1922, The Waste Land is a brilliant exploration of a faithless, immoral society trying to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Great War. Rich in literary references and steeped in allusive and evocative imagery, 'The Waste Land' is widely considered to be the pinnacle of modernist poetry.…
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The Waste Land and other poems
- £5.00
- Published in 1922, The Waste Land is a brilliant exploration of a faithless, immoral society trying to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Great War. Rich in literary references and steeped in allusive and evocative imagery, 'The Waste Land' is widely considered to be the pinnacle of modernist poetry.…
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The Waste Land, a facsimile and transcript of the original draft
- £250.00
- Eliot's masterpiece as it was originally edited and annotated by Ezra Pound before it waas published in 1922. Produced in this limited facsimile edition by Eliot's widow, Valerie, using the manuscript held in the New York Public Library.
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The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (SIGNED Rowse)
- £100.00
- Of interest perhaps primarily because Emilia Lanier was possibly Shakespeare's mistress (the dark lady). The poems are emblematic of much of the verse of the time. The introduction by AL Rowse makes a strong case for Lanier as the famous Dark Lady.
- 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
-
The Top 500 Poems (A Columbia Anthology)
- £40.00
- The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces, John Donne's complex originality, and Alexander…
- Add to basket
-
The Traveller
- £100.00
- Walter John de la Mare OM CH (1873Ð1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". This philosophical…
- Add to basket
-
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
- £30.00
- Eliot's 1932-33 Norton Lectures at Harvard are among the best and most important of his critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition…
- Add to basket
-
The Waste Land and other poems
- £15.00
- Published in 1922, The Waste Land is a brilliant exploration of a faithless, immoral society trying to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Great War. Rich in literary references and steeped in allusive and evocative imagery, 'The Waste Land' is widely considered to be the pinnacle of modernist poetry.…
- Add to basket
-
The Waste Land and other poems
- £5.00
- Published in 1922, The Waste Land is a brilliant exploration of a faithless, immoral society trying to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Great War. Rich in literary references and steeped in allusive and evocative imagery, 'The Waste Land' is widely considered to be the pinnacle of modernist poetry.…
- Add to basket
-
The Waste Land, a facsimile and transcript of the original draft
- £250.00
- Eliot's masterpiece as it was originally edited and annotated by Ezra Pound before it waas published in 1922. Produced in this limited facsimile edition by Eliot's widow, Valerie, using the manuscript held in the New York Public Library.
- Add to basket