poetry
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Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Crow Steered Bergs Appeared: a memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Ted Hughes and Lucas Myers met at Cambridge University in January 1955. They maintained a close friendship until Hughes' death on 22 October 1988. Myers was also a friend of Sylvia Plath and various other family members. His memoir draws on his forty-year correspondence with Hughes and discusses Birthday Letters,…
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Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow
- £50.00
- Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge…
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Cursory Rhymes
- £20.00
- Poetry from a writer considered as a potential poet laureate later in his life, some very funny
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Demeter and other poems
- £200.00
- 1st edition of Tennyson's poem Demeter and others including a celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1887.
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Democracy and the Arts
- £20.00
- Brooke's essay was first written in 1910 as an address to the Cambridge Fabian Society of which Brooke was president while up at King's. Only published posthumously in 1946.
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
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Derek Mahon Poems 1962-1978
- £60.00
- Derek Mahon (1941Ð2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President…
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
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Deutsch-Englische Begegnung – English-German Reconciliation Ottobeuren – Coventry
- £14.00
- Commemorative publication for the performance of Britten's War Requiem on Sept 6 1964, in Ottobeuren and Coventry, in German and English. Leicht unfrisch. Gedenkschrift fr die Auffhrung des "War Requiem" vom Benjamin Britten am 6. September 1964 in Ottobeuren! - Beiliegend das Programm des Konzertes.
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Diary of One Who Vanished
- £50.00
- Introduction by Seamus Heany. Leos Janacek discovered the poems he was to set in his song cycle 'Diary of one who vanished' (1917) in his local paper. They tell the story of a man who abandons his home because of his sexual infatuation with a gypsy. These new English versions…
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District and Circle
- £15.00
- Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been…
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Donne’s Poetry & Prose with Izaac Walton’s life
- £12.00
- Anthology with Izaac Walton's life, Appreciations by Ben Johnson, Dryden and Coleridge et al. Introduction and Notes by H. W. Garrod
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Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
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Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
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Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Crow Steered Bergs Appeared: a memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Ted Hughes and Lucas Myers met at Cambridge University in January 1955. They maintained a close friendship until Hughes' death on 22 October 1988. Myers was also a friend of Sylvia Plath and various other family members. His memoir draws on his forty-year correspondence with Hughes and discusses Birthday Letters,…
- Add to basket
-
Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow
- £50.00
- Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge…
- Add to basket
-
Cursory Rhymes
- £20.00
- Poetry from a writer considered as a potential poet laureate later in his life, some very funny
- Add to basket
-
Demeter and other poems
- £200.00
- 1st edition of Tennyson's poem Demeter and others including a celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1887.
- Add to basket
-
Democracy and the Arts
- £20.00
- Brooke's essay was first written in 1910 as an address to the Cambridge Fabian Society of which Brooke was president while up at King's. Only published posthumously in 1946.
- Add to basket
-
Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
- Add to basket
-
Derek Mahon Poems 1962-1978
- £60.00
- Derek Mahon (1941Ð2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President…
- Add to basket
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Derek Walcott (Caribbean Biography)
- £20.00
- This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher. Friends and colleagues who figured in his career are recalled. The importance of his native St Lucia and family influences in the shaping of…
- Add to basket
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Deutsch-Englische Begegnung – English-German Reconciliation Ottobeuren – Coventry
- £14.00
- Commemorative publication for the performance of Britten's War Requiem on Sept 6 1964, in Ottobeuren and Coventry, in German and English. Leicht unfrisch. Gedenkschrift fr die Auffhrung des "War Requiem" vom Benjamin Britten am 6. September 1964 in Ottobeuren! - Beiliegend das Programm des Konzertes.
- Add to basket
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Diary of One Who Vanished
- £50.00
- Introduction by Seamus Heany. Leos Janacek discovered the poems he was to set in his song cycle 'Diary of one who vanished' (1917) in his local paper. They tell the story of a man who abandons his home because of his sexual infatuation with a gypsy. These new English versions…
- Add to basket
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District and Circle
- £15.00
- Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been…
- Add to basket
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Donne’s Poetry & Prose with Izaac Walton’s life
- £12.00
- Anthology with Izaac Walton's life, Appreciations by Ben Johnson, Dryden and Coleridge et al. Introduction and Notes by H. W. Garrod
- Add to basket
-
Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
- Add to basket
-
Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
- Add to basket