Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
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Shakespeares Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist
James AnthonyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has translated Shakespeares sonnets and he has done so with ...
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Essential Bukowski: Poetry
Charles BukowskiCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50The best poet in America Jean Genet He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels Leonard Cohen The definitive collection...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo
HarperCollins PublishersCurrent price €13.43Original price €15.99This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-d...
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Pessoa: An Experimental Life
Richard ZenithCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYA NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery...
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Circe and the Cyclops
HomerCurrent price €6.29Original price €6.99'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress ...
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the princess saves herself in this one
Amanda LovelaceCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing y...
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Emily Dickinsons Poems: As She Preserved Them
Christopher NolanCurrent price €39.09Original price €45.99Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinsons poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time as she pres...
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Swimming Lessons: Poems
Lili ReinhartCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pag...
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Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling
Ella RisbridgerCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger's commentary'Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentSet Me On Fire is an...
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The Tales of Ise
Penguin Books LtdCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Jap...
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Jane: A Murder
Maggie NelsonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the Un...
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The Iliad
HomerCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99'War, the bringer of tears...' For 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. T...
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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
J. R. R. TolkienCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make ha...
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Inferno (Collins Classics)
Dante AlighieriCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of...
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Oxford Student Texts: Songs of Innocence and Experience
William BlakeCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...
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Red Comet: A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021
Heather ClarkCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive an...
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Metamorphoses
OvidCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These ...
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The Sonnets
William ShakespeareCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, th...
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
Michael KordaCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intert...
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The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data
Conrad SteelCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99Since the start of the twentieth century, poets have been irresistibly drawn to the image of the poem as a kind of data-handling, a way of mediatin...
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The Puritan Literary Tradition
Oxford University PressCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99What is meant by the puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of puritan literature, as distinct from puritan beliefs and practices, come ...
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This Mellow World
Brian Michael BendisCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Divided into three sections, This Mellow World tells the complex story of a protagonist on a quest to feel at home with his Portuguese ethnic ident...
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Beached Whales
Stedmond PardyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Stedmond Pardy's first book of poems, The Pleasures of this Planet Aren't Enough, was published by Mosaic Press in 2020 and launched his career as ...
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Emerging Perspectives: Poetics of Textual Transactions in the Works of Ernest Veyu
Mary Louisa Lum David T KusiCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Current price €23.39Original price €25.99Save 10% -
The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry
Annette DeboCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future Poets are lyric historians, proclaimed Langston Hughes. T...
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Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon
Delphine RumeauCurrent price €107.99Original price €119.99The reception of the American poet Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. It is central to the history of modern poetry, but it goes beyond lit...
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Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon
Delphine RumeauCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The reception of the American poet Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. It is central to the history of modern poetry, but it goes beyond lit...
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Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales: The Transmission and Reception of the Welsh Bardic Grammars
Michaela JacquesCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, ...
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Aina Hanau / Birth Land Volume 92
Brandy Nalani McDougallCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Current price €20.39Original price €23.99Save 15% -
Unshuttered: Poems
Patricia SmithCurrent price €27.29Original price €34.99An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia ...
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Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake
Evie ShockleyCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99David Drake is recognized as one of the United States most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his potsmany inscribed with origina...
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Adulescentia: The eclogues of Mantuan
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €26.34Original price €30.99First published in 1989, Piepho has translated the Latin works of Mantuans eclogues, which play such a crucial role in the culture of Western Europ...
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Lydia Sigourney: Critical Essays and Cultural Views
University of Massachusetts PressCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50During her lifetime, Lydia Sigourney was acclaimed as nineteenth-century America's most popular woman poet and published widely as a historian, tra...
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A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology: At the Confluence of the Green and White Rivers
Susan LandgrafCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99When Susan Landgraf received an Academy of American Poets' Laureate in 2020, her project proposal included teaching more than a dozen workshops on ...
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Wild Intelligence: Poets'' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America
M. C. KinniburghCurrent price €23.99Original price €31.99Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as significant sites f...
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Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms
Jacqueline VayntrubCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped themtheir genres. Modern scholars des...
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Mina Loy: Anatomy of a Sacrificial Satirist
Sara CrangleCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99Current price €98.09Original price €108.99Save 10% -
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Norton-SmithCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Originally published in 1974. This book discusses those aspects of Chaucers art which are concerned with the problem of specific form. These aspect...
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Listen to the Poet: Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry
Wendy R. WilliamsCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse gro...
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Dumb Luck & other poems
Christine KitanoCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Christine Kitanos Dumb Luck & other poems offers a portrait of a thirty-something Asian American woman who finds herself living in the relative...
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Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: Four Essays
Hossein Elahi GhomsheiCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry
Susanna L. SacksCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Simultaneously transnational and local, poetry in the twenty-first century is produced across digital networks, shaped through local communities, a...
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