poetry
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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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A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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.…
- Add to basket
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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,…
- Add to basket
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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,…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket