The New Limerick: 2750 Unpublished Examples American and British
Crown Publishers, January 1977. Hardcover. Jacket chipped and with several closed tears. More
Crown Publishers, January 1977. Hardcover. Jacket chipped and with several closed tears. More
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
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
Princeton University Press, May 1966. Reprint. Paper Back. From a 250 year-old manuscript come these selections from the work of America's first important poet, Edward Taylor of Massachusetts. He was regarded by Mark Van Doren as the writer of "the most interesting American verse before the 19th century." Originally published..... More
Unbound Edition Press, January 2024. Paper Back. Revel Issue 1, available January 2024, contains over 200 pages of literary excellence, including: A special section considering the poetry of former Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan, with essays by: Stephanie Burt Peter Campion Hailey Leithauser Amit Majmudar Ange Mlinko Natalie Shapero Willard Spiegelman..... More
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
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
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
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1978. Trade Paperback. No king, no captain ever stood with better. Roland looks up on the mountains and slopes, sees the French dead, so many good men fallen, and weeps for them, as a great warrior weeps: "Barons, my lords, may God give you..... More
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
Routledge, May 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First Published in 2000. Nearly everyone who addresses T. S. Eliot's imaginative and critical work must acknowledge the importance of music in thematic and formal terms. This collection of original essays thoroughly explores this aspect of his work from a number of perspectives. Very..... More
McGraw-Hill, June 1974. Trade Paperback. More
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
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
Routledge Kegan & Paul, March 1986. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. Spine a bit cocked, but a tight, clean copy. More
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
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
Milkweed Editions, April 2024. Hardcover. Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers. For many years, "nature poetry"..... More
Copper Canyon Press, May 2022. Trade Paperback. An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible. Smoking the Bible is an arresting..... More
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
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
Broadview Press Inc, April 1997. Paper Back. 'A very good guide to the subject, full of erudition, but also full of pedagogical savvy.' -- Don McKay, winner of the Govenor General's Award for Poetry. More
G.E. Stechert & Co., 1926. Cloth. 12mo. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine and front panel of cover. Mildly edgeworn. Heavy tanning/foxing of end pages. Sticker residue upper left corner of front pastdown. Previous owner's name. Without dustjacket. [200 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 2022. Paper Back. Kim Addonizio's sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We're Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit--drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet's characteristic..... More
Alfred A Knopf, 1919. Hardcover. Printed by Johnson Reprint Company, London; some rubbing and corner bumping on cloth over board cover; light staining/discoloration on front and back cover; name rwitten in ink on front free end page; otherwise, book is in overall very good condition. More