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Coney Island of the Mind

22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

£50.00 22 Jul 2008 Hardback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Solomon and Marcolf

19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J Ziolkowski

£25.95 19 Jul 2008 Hardback Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Solomon, famous from the Bible is pit against a wily peasant named Marcolf. The king and jester, sage and fool, prophet and blasphemer bandy back and forth questions and comments. Whereas Solomon is solemn and pompous, Marcolf resorts to low language and earthy topics. Marcolf tricks Solomon time and again.

John Donne

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Life, Mind and Art

By John Carey

£15.00 17 Jul 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Presents an account of English poet John Donne's life. This book takes as its domain not only the whole range of the poetry, but also the sermons, the letters, the spiritual and controversial works, and such personal documents as the treatise on suicide.

Wednesday Early Closing

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Norman Nicholson

£15.00 17 Jul 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Recaptures long-past times and places and demonstrates their compelling influence on the whole of the life of Norman Nicholson. This autobiography tells of his ancestors, his family, his neighbours, friends and teachers, and includes anecdotes, impressions and memories.

Last Things

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Emily Bronte's Poems

By Janet Gezari

£10.99 17 Jul 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Emily Bronte's poetry is more often celebrated than read. This book reinstates her poems at the heart of Victorian writing while underlining their enduring relevance for readers today. For admirers of Wuthering Heights, Last Things brings the emotions and concerns of the novel into sharper focus by relating them to the poems.

Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Andrew Kahn

£55.00 17 Jul 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Pushkin's lyric intelligence is his capacity to transform philosophical and aesthetic ideas into poetry that questions the creative process. This first major study of his lyrics reveals the links between Pushkin's conceptual vocabulary and his intellectual life, and between his writing and the influences of French and English authors and movements.

A New History of English Metre

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Martin J. Duffell

£45.00 15 Jul 2008 Hardback Maney Publishing

Covers the history of English metre up to the twenty-first century and compares a variety of modern theories to explain it.

Fernando Pessoa

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Voices of a Nomadic Soul

By Zbigniew Kotowicz

£9.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Shearsman Books

Helps Anglophone readers come to grips with the astonishing work of Fernando Pessoa.

The Scattered Papers of Penelope

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New and Selected Poems

By Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

£9.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Anvil Press Poetry

A collection of poems with translations by such notables as Kimon Friar and Rae Dalven as well as the editor.

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Critical Edition

By Ernest F. Fenollosa, Ezra Pound

£17.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback Fordham University Press

Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. This book discusses about the Fenollosa's work. It is suitable for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.

The Demon and the Damozel

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel

By Suzanne M. Waldman

£27.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback Ohio University Press

Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the psyche, this title offers a reading of the Victorian siblings' literature and visual arts. It views poems and artworks such as Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" and "Venus Verticordia".

The Traffic in Poems

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Nineteenth-century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange

By Meredith L. McGill

£17.50 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Rutgers University Press

The transatlantic crossing of people and goods shaped nineteenth-century poetry in surprising ways. This book focuses on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explores the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures.

On Lyrical Poetry

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By L Ginzburg

£23.95 15 Jul 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

The Scroll and the Marble

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

By Peter Bing

£44.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback The University of Michigan Press

While people of previous ages relied on public performance as their chief means of experiencing poetry, the Hellenistic age developed what one may term a culture of reading. This book explores how poetry accommodated various audiences, and how these in turn experienced the text in diverse ways, offering a coherent vision of Hellenistic poetics.

Lyric and Spirit

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Essays, 1996-2008

By Hank Lazer

£13.50 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Omnidawn Publishing

Offering 12 years of incisive writing about contentiously debated topics in modern poetry, this work features essays, interviews, and reflections that focus on two central themes - the changing nature of beauty in the lyric and the necessity of finding new ways to embody spirituality.

Being Shelley

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Poet's Search for Himself

By Ann Wroe

£9.99 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Vintage

Takes the life of the poet, Shelley and turns it inside out. This book tracks the inner adventures of a spirit struggling to escape and create.

Celtic Poetry Library

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Celtic Poetry Library

By Owen Evans

£12.50 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Welsh Academic Press

This volume offers a collection of Celtic poetry with facing page translations in Anglish. It also provides a guide to pronounciation and an overview of Celtic poetic traditions.

Slanderous Tongues

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Daniel Williams

£15.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Poetry Wales Press

Anthology of Late Victorian Poetry

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Critical Anthology, with a Chronology of Prose

By Caroline Blyth

£75.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Anthem Press

Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By McDowell, Robert

£10.99 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Free Press

This small-format instructional guide combines poetry and spirituality and offers readers the tools to explore poetry in a reflective writing and reading process that may lead to deeper awareness and enjoyment.

The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Schneider, Matthew

£42.50 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

A study of the relationship between the Beatles and the Romantic poets. It traces the musical and cultural achievements of contemporary musical phenomenon to its origin in the Romantic revolution of the 1790's in England when traditional concepts of literature, politics, education and social relationships were challenged as they were in the 1960s.

Piers Plowman

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text

By William Langland

£10.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback University of Exeter Press

William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. This book offers an introduction that contextualises the poem and appraises Langland scholarship.

The Poetry of Thom Gunn: A Critical Study

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michelucci, Stefania Franks, Jill

£21.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback McFarland & Company

How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

H.D.'s Cultural Poetics

By Morris, Adalaide

£13.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback University of Illinois Press

The writing of HD is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to post-modernists. This book examines the "ongoingness" of HD's writing.

Longfellow Redux

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Irmscher, Christoph

£13.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback University of Illinois Press

Examining Longfellow's papers alongside letters written by his fans both at home and abroad, this book offers a view of the poet's connection with his audience. It demonstrates that Longfellow saw literature as a transnational conversation breaking down social and linguistic barriers.

Byron

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Heritage and Legacy

By Peter X Accardo, Catherine Addison, Bernard Beatty, Shobhana Bhattacharji, Alexandra M Bohm, Philip Cardinale, Peter Cochran, Paul Curtis, Marilyn Gaull

£42.50 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

There is much interest in Lord Byron and fresh ways to interpret his work and relationship to Romanticism as well as contemporary literature and society. This collection of works relates Lord Byron to such other luminaries as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Bowles.

Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household

By Kendall, Elliot

£50.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press, USA

In a sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis (1390-3), Elliot Kendall shows how deeply the great household shaped the way Gower and his contemporaries (including Chaucer, Clanvowe, chroniclers, and parliamentary petitioners) imagined their world.

Sylvia Plath's Poetry

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Linda Wagner-Martin

£9.99 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Sylvia Plath is one of the best known and most widely studied modern poets. This guide is intended for students wanting to know about her work, its composition and its relationship to Plath's life. It provides an introduction to Plath's life, her relationship with Ted Hughes and his influence on her poetry and its reception.

Sylvia Plath's Poetry

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Linda Wagner-Martin

£45.00 30 Jun 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert E. Stillman

£55.00 28 Jun 2008 Hardback Ashgate Publishing Group

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. This title explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy", which argues for the preeminence of poetry as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain.

Chambers Rhyming Dictionary

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£7.99 27 Jun 2008 Paperback Hodder Education

A book that helps you find rhymes - now expanded

Solomon and Marcolf

21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J Ziolkowski

£16.95 21 Jun 2008 Paperback Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Solomon and Marcolf

21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J Ziolkowski

£25.95 21 Jun 2008 Hardback Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

OCR The Rape of the Lock

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alexander Pope

£6.99 19 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

OCR John Donne Selected Poems

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Donne

£6.99 19 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

OCR Paradise Lost (Bk. 1)

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Milton

£6.99 19 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

OCR The Pardoner's Tale

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Geoffrey Chaucer

£6.99 19 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

On Lyrical Poetry

17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By L Ginzburg

£23.95 17 Jun 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Into the Heart of European Poetry

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Taylor

£34.50 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Examines the work of many of the major poets who have deeply marked modern and contemporary European literature. This book delves into the widely translated literatures of Italy, Greece, Germany, and Austria, and also discovers impressive and overlooked work in Slovenia, Bosnia, Hungary, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands.

The Traffic in Poems

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Nineteenth-century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange

By Meredith L. McGill

£17.50 15 Jun 2008 Paperback Rutgers University Press

The Scroll and the Marble

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

By Peter Bing

£41.95 15 Jun 2008 Hardback The University of Michigan Press

Interrogation of Silence

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Writings of George Mackay Brown

By Rowena Murray, Brian Murray

£14.95 12 Jun 2008 Paperback Steve Savage Publishers Limited

The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Edge of Love

By Dylan Thomas

£6.99 12 Jun 2008 Paperback Orion Publishing Co

Film tie-in edition of Dylan Thomas's lyrical, passionate, poetic letters to his lovers and his wife Caitlin.

Diplomatic Corpse

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Byron and Teresa Guiccioli

By Anne Zwack

£6.99 12 Jun 2008 Paperback John Murray General Publishing Division

A roller-coaster ride of revenge through the great capitals of Europe.

The Lusiads

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Luis de Camoes

£8.99 12 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Yeats's Poetic Codes

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nicholas Grene

£45.00 12 Jun 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

A new approach to Yeats's poems, concentrating on the reading experience itself. By picking out the distinctive 'codes' of Yeats's poetic practice, such as his use of dates and place names, characteristic vocabulary, and stylistic preferences, Grene's study will send readers back to the work with a new sense of understanding and enjoyment.

The "Aeneid"

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Virgil

£3.99 05 Jun 2008 Paperback Spark Notes

Tackles some of the important novels. Created by Harvard students, this work features explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, analyses of major characters and important quotes, plot summaries and analysis, an exploration of historical context, as well as key facts and essay topics.

"Paradise Lost"

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Milton

£3.99 05 Jun 2008 Paperback Spark Notes

Features explanations of themes, motifs, and symbols, analyses of characters and quotes, plot summaries and analysis, an exploration of historical context, and facts and potential essay topics.

Seamus Heaney

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bibliography, 1959-2003

By Rand Brandes, Michael J. Durkan

£50.00 05 Jun 2008 Hardback Faber and Faber

A bibliography of the published work of the poet and critic, Seamus Heaney. It provides details of the circumstances of publication for his major works, including print-runs, reviews, previous appearances of individual items in periodicals and newspapers and other descriptive notes.

Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Fiction, Film and Social Change

By Andrew Nestingen

£16.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Museum Tusculanum Press

Argues that the growth and visibility of popular culture have been at the heart of the development of heterogeneous "publics" in Scandinavia, in opposition to the homogenising influence of the post-World War II welfare state. This book discusses artists, such as Henning Mankell, Aki Kaurismaki, Lukas Moodysson, and Lars von Trier.

The Twentieth Century English Poetry

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Auden Group of Poets

By Mamta Srivastava

£33.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Rajat Publications

Oxford Lectures on Poetry

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By A.C. Bradley

£30.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Atlantic Publishing,India

The Poetry of Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Harihar Rath

£33.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Atlantic Publishing,India

The Pip Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry in English

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Messerli, Douglas

£9.31 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Green Integer

A continuation of the famed Sun & Moon Press series of selections of poems published in 2004 magazines, this volume expands the popular series to include all English-language poetry.

Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions

By Fiske, Robert Hartwell Cherry, Laura

£12.99 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Marion Street Press

The creative world of the writer is uncovered in this captivating exploration of the techniques of poetry revision. An in-depth look at the writing processes of 54 poems, each by a different modern author, is provided, complete with early drafts, subsequent revised versions, and short essays from the poets themselves revealing how and why they made specific changes, as well as their editing secrets. Poetry lovers will enjoy browsing through their favorite works and authors, and budding writers will learn the skills needed to grow a first draft into a polished final piece.

Yesterday's Tomorrow: Leonard Cohen

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hendrickx, Marc

£12.06 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Brandl & Schlesinger

Focusing on a man who succeeded unlike any other in reconciling literature and poetry with pop music, this analysis digs deep into the work of Leonard Cohen and finds original views on humanity, happiness, consciousness, love, old age, and death. Offering a new perspective, the book gives a lively insight on Cohen's work and shows its depth and relevance for a new generation.

John Betjeman

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Reading the Victorians

By Greg Morse

£49.99 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Sussex Academic Press

John Betjeman was the popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his nineteenth-century forbears. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and religious doubt.

Homer's the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Biography (A Book That Shook the World)

By Alberto Manguel

£8.99 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Atlantic Books

"The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are perhaps the some of the most influential works in the history of western literature. This book analyses their creation and influence and establishes how they have come to resonate throughout the world.

Identity and Society in American Poetry: The Romantic Tradition

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Romantic Tradition

By Mookerjee, Robin

£64.95 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Cambria Press

Approaching Emily Dickinson: Critical Currents and Crosscurrents Since 1960

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Critical Currents and Crosscurrents Since 1960

By White, Fred D.

£40.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Camden House (NY)

Offers an examination of the vast body of Emily Dickinson's scholarship. This work gives detailed attention to the principal trends in Dickinson scholarship: biographical studies; feminist perspectives on the poet's life and work; rhetorical and stylistic analyses; and, textual studies of the bound and unbound fascicles.

The "Canterbury Tales"

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Geoffrey Chaucer