Blake: Poetry (Critical Studies, Penguin)
Penguin Books, January 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Poetry
Dante's Divine Comedy (Modern Critical Interpretations)
Chelsea House Pub, January 1987. Hardcover. -- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an..... More
Wallace Stevens (Bloom's Major Poets)
Chelsea House Pub, January 2003. Library Binding. Each Volume, Covering Three To Six Poems, Includes: - User's guide- Editor's note and introduction by Harold Bloom- 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...... More
White Paper: On Contemporary American Poetry
Columbia Univ Pr, January 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Robert Lowell a Biography
Faber Faber Inc, January 1983. Hardcover. dust jacket is in tact, but has some fading and rubbing on the spine, however the title and author are crisp; some yellowing on front, spine and back, especially along the top of the dust jacket; light shelf wear along top, bottom of front..... More
In the Clearing
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. {6' x 9'} In edgeworn/rubbed dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Tan end pages. [101 pages]. More
Catching Life By the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets (with CD)
W. W. Norton, April 2008. Hardcover. Catching Life by the Throat unites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief, accessible essays concerning their life and work and a selection of their poems, and it is accompanied by..... More
The CONFIDENTIAL CLERK. A Play.
Faber & Faber Ltd., January 1954. First Edition. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Denim blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering. First UK edition. [136 pages]. More
Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Random House Inc, March 1989. Trade Paperback. "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced, " (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. More
The Personal Heresy: a Controversy -- No. 94
Oxford University Press, January 1965. Paper Back. 12mo. Rubber stamped by a previous owner on front cover and again on half title page. Marginal wear with one solid bump/tear along spine near top. [149 pages]. More
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
Pantheon, February 2000. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2000. Paper Back. In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters..... More
T. S. Eliot (Lives and Legacies Series)
Oxford University Press, USA, November 2006. Hardcover. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet--forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in this brilliant exploration of T.S...... More
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 1991. Paper Back. The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing..... More
Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot
Cambridge University Press, October 2006. Paper Back. T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand..... More
Selected Poems: Percy Bysshe Shelley Blunden, Edmund (Editor) Published by Collins, London, 1966
Collins Clear-Type Press, 1966. Flexible Boards. {4&3/8th' x 7&1/4'} Textured red synthetic faux leather w gold lettering and gold decoration along spine. Silk ribbon marker with frayed ending. End papers with patterned grey & white Collins logo. Non-authorial inked inscription on veso of ffep. [639 pages]. More
Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances
Oxford University Press, USA, July 2011. Hardcover. Roy Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New York Review of Books as a triumph of scholarship, thought, and empathy such as one would hardly have thought possible in this age of disillusion. Now, Foster turns his focus to the..... More
Whitsun Weddings (Faber Poetry)
Faber & Faber, 1988. Reprint. Paper Back. A collection of poems from a tenderly observant poet who writes about what all of us can understand. The title poem describes the poet's journey by train from Hull to London, using the tones and rhythms of ordinary speech and focusing on the..... More
Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle
Holt, Rinehart and Wineston, July 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. In mildly worn dustjacket. Dark brown cloth covered spine with gold letters. Tan paper covered boards with gold lettering across top near edge of front panel. Matching tan end papers. Tight binding. Clean & sound. [133 pages]. 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
Christmas Poems
New Directions, November 2008. Trade Paperback. Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert, Longfellow, Dickinson, Paul Dunbar, Rilke, Yeats, William Carlos Williams..... More
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), July 1993. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Redress of Poetry
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, October 1996. Paper Back. Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as..... More
Collected Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 1993. Trade Paperback. One of the best-known, best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Larkin had a relatively small number of poems published during his lifetime. This Collected Poems, which J. D. McClatchy called a fascinating and indispensable text in The New York Times Book Review..... More
