Literary studies: poetry & poets
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100 Poets
£11.99100 Poets
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry
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A greeting of the spirit
£29.95A greeting of the spirit
Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections-some beloved, others less well known-that illuminate the brief, extraordinary career of John Keats. Lively commentaries showcase the poems’ form, style, layers of meaning, and relevant contexts, offering a chronicle of Keats’s artistic evolution.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
£7.99Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit, and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew – and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime – and very much loved today. She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem ‘A Curse for a Nation’ is a powerful polemic against the slave trade.
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Elizabeth Bishop
£8.99Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the ‘best-loved’ poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss.
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Haiku
£9.99Haiku
Haiku features 80 classic poems from four poets – Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki – which range across more than 200 years of Japanese poetry. Each poem is presented in Japanese script, along with romanised Japanese (romaji), a new English translation and an illustration echoing the poem’s theme.Â
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Jane Austen
£7.99Jane Austen
Best known – and beloved – for her highly popular novels including ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Emma’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet: ‘I am going to have my dinner, after which I shan’t be thinner’. This collection, which also includes poems by the poets she herself admired, sheds light not only on Jane Austen the writer, but on the themes that are woven through her bestselling novels. Satirical, humorous and ironical, they will resonate both with readers who love her novels, and newcomers alike.
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Jane Austen and Lord Byron
£19.99Jane Austen and Lord Byron
Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parson’s daughter writing anonymously. This book explores how their lives, interests, work and sense of humour often brought them within touching distance, and sets them side by side in the world of the Regency and Romantic period.
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Keats’s Odes
£12.99Keats’s Odes
A fresh, radical assessment of Keats’s odes that meshes the intimate with the critical
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Metamorphoses
£8.99Metamorphoses
The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville’s translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid’s unique and elusive vision of reality.
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Poems as friends
£14.99Poems as friends
The Poetry Exchange is an award-winning podcast and project that celebrates the role poetry plays in people’s lives. In their first anthology, Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer draw on ten years of archival material to bring together a collection of poems chosen by readers that know them as friends, presented alongside their personal stories of connection. Featuring Brian Cox on John Clare, Andrew Scott on George Herbert, Maxine Peake on Tony Harrison and many more, in this gathering of poems you can reacquaint yourself with old friends, perhaps make some new ones, and enjoy the companionship poetry can offer us.
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Poems for gardeners
£16.99Poems for gardeners
This is a collection of poems about gardens and gardening from across the world and across time, collected by the well-known writer, critic and gardener, Germaine Greer.
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Poems in Progress
£30.00Poems in Progress
Ask two poets what their first drafts look like, and you’ll likely get wildly different answers. From typed pages with delicate annotation to hasty scribbles in a dog-eared notebook, drafts often tell us so much more about poems – and their poets – than the published versions ever could. This book presents manuscripts ranging from John Keats’ drafts in his own hand, to poems written on toilet paper by Sylvia Pankhurst while confined in Holloway Prison, to early versions typed by Sylvia Plath on the reverse of Ted Hughes’ own discarded work.
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Poetry
£8.99Poetry
In this Very Short Introduction Bernard O’Donoghue explores the many different forms of writing which have been called ‘poetry’, from the Greeks to the present day. He considers the varying status and uses of poetry, and engages with contemporary debates as to what value poetry holds today.
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Sylvia Plath
£8.99Sylvia Plath
In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath’s life and work while discussing key themes in Plath’s poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel, her novel The Bell Jar, and her short stories.
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The book of bird poems
£16.99The book of bird poems
The wonder of birds has charmed and inspired poets down the centuries and across the globe. From Shakespeare’s ‘feathr’d king’ to Ted Hughes ‘butterfly lightness’, of swifts, this is a collection to stir the soul of any nature lover.
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The Penguin book of elegy
£40.00The Penguin book of elegy
Elegy is among the world’s oldest forms of literature: a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. In perhaps the purest instance of art’s fundamental ‘impulse to preserve’ (Philip Larkin), it gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate for long, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In ‘The Penguin Book of Elegy’, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, selecting the best and most significant poems and poets from the Classical roots of elegy, and from its Renaissance revival down to the present day.
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