The New American Poetry
Grove Press, January 1960. Trade Paperback. A bit of toning & regular shelf wear; else, very good. More
Poetry
The New Limerick: 2750 Unpublished Examples American and British
Crown Publishers, January 1977. Hardcover. Jacket chipped and with several closed tears. More
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
Oxford University Press, January 1996. Paper Back. Comic verse, writes editor John Gross, is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go. In The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, Gross has combed the annals of literature in English..... More
Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
Clarendon Press, April 1994. Hardcover. This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain, from 1900 to the present, and from Britain and..... More
Philip Larkin (New Casebooks (Paperback))
Palgrave Macmillan, September 1997. Trade Paperback. The essays in this volume abandon the tired cliches of an older critical consensus and offer a lively, provocative response to such issues as sexual politics, national identity and postcolonialism in the work of Philip Larkin, a writer widely regarded as the best Poet..... More
The Poems of Propertius
Indiana University Press, January 1963. Trade Paperback. More
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Columbia University Press, March 2000. Trade Paperback. In this collection of critical responses to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poetry, Elmer Andrews presents the debates surrounding the poet's work and popular appeal. The writings gathered in this Columbia Critical Guide clarify and explore issues of cultural identity and nationality, as..... More
Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle
University of Chicago Press, September 1975. Paper Back. This useful volume presents the major works of the five leading Pre-Raphaelite poets. Foremost in the collection, and included in their entirety are D. G. Rossetti's The House of Life, C. G. Rossetti's Monna Innominata, William Morris's Defence of Guenevere, Swinburne's Atalanta..... More
Robert Duncan: Scales of the Marvelous (Insights, Working Papers in Contemporary Criticism)
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1980. Trade Paperback. Essays examine the life and work of this modern American poet, and his influence on contemporary writing. More
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur
University of Michigan Press, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Robert Lowell was regarded by many as the greatest American poet of his generation. Somehow or other...in the middle of our worst century so far, his contemporary and friend Elizabeth Bishop wrote, we have produced a magnificent poet. The scion of a...... More
Rumi: We Are Three : New Rumi Poems
Maypop Books, January 1988. Trade Paperback. Contains quatrains, odes, and rambles through the Mathnawi (including animal fables, jokes, and stories of human oneness and innocence), alongwith Rumi's teachings and images of his spiritual surrender. More
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (York Medieval Texts)
Northwestern University Press, August 1970. Trade Paperback. This volume offers the complete text of a poem which, although an acknowledged masterpiece of medieval literature, makes abnormal demands upon the reader by reason of its subtle exploitation both of a difficult dialect of Middle English and of the special idiom of..... More
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Columbia University Press, November 2001. Trade Paperback. The Waste Land (1922) is widely recognized as a central text of modernism and is often described as the most important poem of the twentieth century. This guide begins with early reviews and discussions from the 1920s and '30s, considered alongside Eliot's own..... More
T.S. Eliot's Orchestra: Critical Essays on Poetry and Music (Border Crossings)
Routledge, May 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Very tight, clean copy. Spine slightly cocked. More
T.S. Eliot: A Collection of Criticism
McGraw-Hill, June 1974. Trade Paperback. More
T.S. Eliot: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)
Chelsea House Pub, October 1998. Library Binding. Each book in the Bloom''s Major Poets series covers three to six poems offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the important aspects of each work. These guides introduce critical analysis to students of poetry.'. Cover wear. More
To Woo & to Wed: Contemporary Poets on Love & Marriage
Poseidon Press, February 1993. Paper Back. The first truly contemporary collection of its kind, this beautiful and eloquent anthology gathers nearly 200 of the best poems on love and marriage by more than 100 of the finest poets of the modern age. Here are Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop, Philip..... More
Wallace Stevens: The Critical Heritage (Critical Heritage Series)
Routledge Kegan & Paul, March 1986. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. Spine a bit cocked, but a tight, clean copy. More
William Butler Yeats (Bloom's Major Poets)
Chelsea House Pub, March 2001. Library Binding. -- User's guide -- A comprehensive biography of the poet -- Detailed thematic analysis of each poem -- Extracts from major critical essays that discuss important aspects of each poem -- A complete bibliography of the writer's poetic works -- A list of..... More
William Wordsworth's the Prelude: A Casebook
Oxford University Press, USA, August 2006. Paper Back. William Wordsworth's long poem The Prelude is a fascinating work-as autobiography, the fruit of many attempts at understanding the formative period of Wordsworth's life; as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years; as an unstable literary text, which..... More
Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems
Graywolf Press, April 2023. Paper Back. In Ghana's Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola's rhapsodic debut, the intimacy of this practice yields an intricately..... More
Chinua Achebe: Collected Poems
Penguin Books, August 2004. Trade Paperback. The father of African literature in the English language and undoubtedly one of the most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century. --Caryl Phillips, The Observer Chinua Achebe's award-winning poems are marked by a subtle richness and the political acuity and..... More
Ezra Pound (Literary Lives)
Thames & Hudson, June 1987. Trade Paperback. {7' x 9'} Light soiling and marginal darkening. Previous owner's name inked inside first page. [126 pages}. More
T.S. Eliot: A Life
Simon & Schuster, October 1984. Hardcover. some sun fading on dust jacket spine; light shelf wear along top fron and spine of DJ; name inscribed in ink on front free end page. More
The Art of Paul Verlaine
New York University Press, January 1963. Trade Paperback. More
