Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Airy Hall
£5.95Airy Hall
A collection of short lyrics and a long poem by the British/Guyanese poet who won the T.S.Eliot Prize and, after the publication of his first volume of poetry “Mama Dot”, won the Guyanese National Poetry Award.
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American Poetry
£8.99American Poetry
American poetry is a vast and perplexing literature, valuing tradition as much as novelty. Some have claimed that America needs a poetry equal to the country’s distinctiveness. Others point out that American poetry welcomes techniques, styles and traditions that originate from far beyond its borders. In this introduction to American poetry, David Caplan pays close attention to American poets’ verse forms, meters and styles. Examples range from Anne Bradstreet to the poets of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Beowulf
£8.99Beowulf
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.
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Charlotte Mew
£25.00Charlotte Mew
The British poet Charlotte Mew – whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 – was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This is a comprehensive biography, from cradle to grave, and it is written by Faber poet Julia Copus, who recently unveiled a blue plaque on Mew’s childhood house in Doughty Street. Mew was a curious mix of New Woman and stalwart Victorian. Her poems speak to us strongly today, in these strangely mixed times of exposure and seclusion: they reveal the private agony of an isolated being who was forced to keep secret the tragedies of her personal life while being at the same time propelled by her work into the public arena.
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Goblin Market
£12.99Goblin Market
A fully illustrated volume of the classic Christina Rossetti poem, Goblin Market, which resonates still today, and is the most beautiful book for any poetry lover.Â
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How To Grow Your Own Poem
£14.99How To Grow Your Own Poem
Anybody can learn to write their own poem by following the advice in this very friendly book.
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Keats
£17.99Keats
The epitaph John Keats wrote for his own gravestone – ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’ – seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of twenty-five, having taken a battering from the conservative press, few critics imagined he would be considered one of the great English poets two hundred years later, though he himself had an inkling. In this brief life, Lucasta Miller takes Keats’s best-known poems – the ones you are most likely to have read – and excavates their backstories. In doing so, she resurrects the real Keats: a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and dysfunctional family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; an atheist and a liberal at a time of repression; a human being who delighted in the sensation of the moment; but a complex individual, not the ethereal figure of his posthumous myth.
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Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis
£10.99Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis
‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’ is Wendy Cope’s first full length collection of poems.
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Music Lessons
£8.95Music Lessons
Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain’s leading poets, Fiona Sampson. Her lectures discuss the relationship between poetry, music and ideas, taking examples from a diverse range of writers, composers and philosophers.
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Poetic
£5.99Poetic
Can you tell an iamb from a trochee? Why do children always take such delight in dactylic tetrameter? In this book, Scottish poet Octava Wynne examines the elements of poetry, from its various feet, meters and lines, through its patterns, stanzas and rhymes, right up to the poetic forms themselves.
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Poetry of the First World War
£5.99Poetry of the First World War
York Notes for GCSE offer an exciting approach to English Literature and will help you to achieve a better grade. This market-leading series has been completely updated to reflect the needs of today’s students. The new editions are packed with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more. Written by GCSE examiners and teachers, York Notes are the authoritative guides to exam success.
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Recovering Dorothy
£9.99Recovering Dorothy
Dorothy Wordsworth is well-known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798-1803) and as the sister of the poet William Wordsworth. She is praised for her nature writing and as a woman with great physical vitality: someone who could walk long distances, who had great stamina, strength, and a certain wildness. Less well known is that in 1829 Dorothy became seriously ill, and was mostly housebound from 1835. She lived another twenty years after that, outliving her brother by five years. This book is about the Dorothy we don’t know – disabled, housebound – who makes her sick room into a garden for herself and her pet robin, and who is finally able to call herself a poet.
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Shakespearean
£9.99Shakespearean
A deeply personal journey into Shakespeare’s work that explores how it remains relevant and always has something to say about the times we are living in.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
£16.99Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the definitive masterpiece of medieval alliterative poetry, and Michael Smith has both translated and illustrated this stunning new edition of the poem
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Somewhere Becoming Rain
£9.99Somewhere Becoming Rain
Renowned critic, bestselling author and award-winning poet Clive James offers an exploration and celebration of one of his favourite writers, Philip Larkin.
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Stranger, Baby
£10.99Stranger, Baby
Emily Berry’s ‘Dear Boy’ was described as a ‘blazing debut’, winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. ‘Stranger, Baby’, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and often agonising encounter with childhood loss.
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