poetry
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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.
- Add to basket
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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 Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
- £80.00
- A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his…
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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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Between Here and Now
- £20.00
- Marking a departure for Thomas, half of these poems were inspired by the Impressionist paintings in the Louvre, providing a comment on it that is no less honest and full of insight than the poetry for which the poet is so well known.
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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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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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Canterbury Tales
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #307; Chaucer's wonderful verse tells of a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
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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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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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City Songs
- £15.00
- Scottish poet but apart from that I know nothing!
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
Beowulf – A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
- £80.00
- A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Between Here and Now
- £20.00
- Marking a departure for Thomas, half of these poems were inspired by the Impressionist paintings in the Louvre, providing a comment on it that is no less honest and full of insight than the poetry for which the poet is so well known.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
Canterbury Tales
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #307; Chaucer's wonderful verse tells of a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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City Songs
- £15.00
- Scottish poet but apart from that I know nothing!
- Add to basket
