English Poetry
Oxford Univ. Press, January 1963. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
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Professing Poetry
Penguin Books, May 1978. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Closed tear at front hinge, repaired w/ scotch tape; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent reading copy. More
Heine: The Penguin Poets (D98)
Penguin Books, 1967. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Text free of markings; A great reading copy. More
Quiet: Poems
Knopf, February 2023. Hardcover. A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of "quiet" in producing forms of community, resistance, and love. "Bulley's stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; [they] perfectly embody the political through the personal."--Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning..... More
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
Knopf, April 2022. Hardcover. A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex..... More
The Canterbury Tales, in Modern English
Penguin Classics, August 1989. Trade Paperback. Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group..... More
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
Yale Nota Bene, February 2001. Paper Back. A survey of the schemes, patterns and forms of English verse. John Hollander illustrates each variation with a self-descriptive example. In this third edition, he adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the patterns he has described. Gently..... More
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Gotham, August 2006. Hardcover. "I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it." ?Stephen Fry..... More
Paradise Lost: Introduction (Cambridge Milton Series for Schools and Colleges)
Cambridge University Press, March 1972. Paper Back. In this, the first introductory volume of the Cambridge Milton for Schools and Colleges, Professor Broadbent, the general editor of the series, presents background and introductory material essential to students for a proper understanding of Paradise Lost. Chapters on mythology, the epic, the..... More
Life of John Milton
Random House UK, August 1997. Paper Back. A.N. Wilson's sympathetic, readable and analytical narrative places John Milton, one of the greatest poets of the 17th century, in the context of his political and religious ideas. Gently used; Covers and spine mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings;..... More
Whiskey Words & a Shovel I
Andrews McMeel Publishing, May 2017. Trade Paperback. Completely revised and expanded brand-new edition of Volume I, the first book in the Whiskey poetry trilogy! Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to..... More
Lives of the Modern Poets
Oxford University Press, September 1981. Paper Back. Covers and spine moderately worn from handing; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Text free of markings; A solid reading copy. More
Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Mariner Books, July 1998. Paper Back. For both readers and writers of poetry, here is a concise and engaging introduction to sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion - and why they matter. "The dance, " in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound..... More
John Miltons Samson Agonistes: The Poem and Materials for Analysis
Chandler Publishing Company, 1966. Trade Paperback. Gently used; Covers and spine mildly worn from handling; Creasing present at spine from use; Text free of markings; An excellent reading copy. More
Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden (Modern library 160.2)
Modern Library, January 1959. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy blue cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt at spine; Red 'H' stamped at front free end-page as publisher's remainder mark; Previous owner name present at title page; Text free of markings; Price-clipped jacket shows mild wear from age w/ no significant flaws..... More
So Tall It Ends in Heaven: Poems
Tin House Books, September 2022. Paper Back. With lush and deeply intimate language, Jayme Ringleb's debut collection So Tall It Ends in Heaven explores sexuality, estrangement, and the distances we travel for love. Following the end of a marriage, So Tall It Ends in Heaven's queer southern speaker tries to..... More
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (American Poets Continuum Series, 194)
BOA Editions Ltd., September 2022. Paper Back. What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and..... More
Time Is a Mother
Penguin Press, April 2022. Hardcover. A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022 The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong "Take your time with these poems, and return to them often." --The Washington Post How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The..... More
Robert Frost: A Biography
Houghton Mifflin, January 1997. Paper Back. Robert Frost, one of the greatest American poets, is certainly the most widely read and most loved. After Frost's death in 1963, his authorized biographer wrote a three-volume work which deeply distorted the personality of the poet. Jeffrey Meyers has returned to the sources..... More
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
Princeton University Press, September 1992. Trade Paperback. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered..... More
Sayings of W. B. Yeats (Duckworth Sayings Series)
Duckworth Publishing. Paper Back. This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights. Mild wear to covers and spine; Slight bending present; Previous owner initials present at half..... More
Time Is a Mother
Penguin Press, April 2022. Hardcover. A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022 The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong "Take your time with these poems, and return to them often." --The Washington Post How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The..... More
Tennyson: Aspects of his life, character & poetry (A284)
Doubleday Anchor, 1962. Paper Back. Edgeworn/chipped mass market paperback. Sticker residue front cover. Dog earred clutch of pages 247 to 287. Previous dealer's stamps on verso of front cover and first inside page. Previous owner's name written in ink first insid. [339 pages plus five page list of available Anchor..... More
Poetry In Our Time - A Critical Survey Of Poetry In The English Speaking World, 1900 To 1960,
Anchor Doubleday, 1963. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd Edition, Revised & Enlarged. Mass market paperback. Clean (mostly) & sound. Sticker residue on cover. Previous owners' names in ink half title page. [457 plus three page list of Anchor titles available.]. More
