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Austin Macauley Publishers The Child Soldiers
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Divine Mystique II
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers I Have Something To Say
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers The Black Feather
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Publishers Its So Simple You Could Miss It
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£5.99
Austin Macauley Publishers The Genius and the Jester
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Austin Macauley Publishers Poems For Cecilia Poemas Para Cecilia
£11.69
Austin Macauley Publishers Ghost Stories Love Notes
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Thunder and Lightning
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Life in Love Hopelessness and Healing
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£11.69
Austin Macauley Publishers Poems of Life Love
£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Growing Pains
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£7.59
Austin Macauley Publishers Growing Pains
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£12.59
Austin Macauley Publishers Saffron Rosa
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£12.59
Austin Macauley Publishers So Let It Be With Caesar
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FriesenPress Pathology of a Pandemic a collection of poems
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£18.44
Taylor & Francis Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy
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£40.84
Fourteen Publishing She will need a stable boy
£9.37
Cracked Publishing Postcards from a Little Life
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£12.60
The 87 Press OSSIA
Book SynopsisThis extraordinary debut collection from queer Korean-American poet Jimin Seo, moves between Korean and English, translating and re-translating micro-histories of grief, mourning, and love into a singular reading experience.
£13.49
Salamander Street Limited Going for Gold
Book SynopsisInspired by the true story of Frankie Lucas, a young black boxer navigating the vibrant yet challenging world of 1970s London.
£10.44
Independently Published She refused to be defeated
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£7.88
Rwg Publishing Descending Dove A Collection of Christian Poetry
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£17.09
Indy Pub Singularity finding purpose in an infinite
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£11.89
Indy Pub The Gold Boys Are Back In Gold Town
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£18.00
IngramSpark Scrawled Out Timeline Poetry Collection
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£6.94
Melric Publishing A Kaleidoscope Of Love
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£12.99
New Life Clarity Publishing From My Heart to Yours
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£7.99
Apokrupha Strange Nests
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£13.29
Rachel Jordan Young Adult
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£8.54
John King Fall of the Angels
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£20.89
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Poesies futiles
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£7.03
Christian Faith Publishing, Inc Journey of Seasons
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£999.99
Lulu.com Amazin Transcendence
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£9.31
Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
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£85.50
Cambridge University Press A Hellenistic Anthology
Book SynopsisThis book is an anthology of Greek poetry written during the third to first centuries BC, the Hellenistic period. It is intended to make available to undergraduates and graduate students a selection of texts which are for the most part not easily accessible elsewhere. The volume contains a wide and representative range of poetry including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epic. An introduction provides cultural and historical background, and a full commentary elucidates problems of language and reference in the texts. In this second edition, many notes have been rewritten and the bibliography has been updated. The selection has also been augmented with three hundred more lines of Greek text (Theocritus poems 5 and 15), and is now more than 2000 lines in length.Trade Review'This A Hellenistic Anthology - now issued as a second edition, with a greater contribution from Theocritus - is a welcome addition to the Green-and-Yellow series. The Introduction manages to convey a lot of information in a relatively short space … We then have the Commentary. [Hopkinson] introduces each poet, at greater or lesser length with a terse bibliography. The notes are a model of their kind: relevant, concise, precise … This is unequivocally excellent.' Colin Leach, Classics for All'I feel confident that Professor Hopkinson will continue to live on as a 'brilliant and devoted teacher' in this and in his other well-received publications.' James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The apparatus criticus; Commentary; Appendix. Doric dialect; Indexes.
£26.99
Cambridge University Press A History of Irish Womens Poetry
Book SynopsisA History of Irish Women''s Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women''s poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women''s poetry through many prisms mythology, gender, history, the nation and most importantly, close readings of the poetry itself. It covers major figures, such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as neglected figures from the past. Writing in both English and Irish is considered, and close attention paid to the many different contexts in which Irish women''s poetry has been produced and received, from the anonymous work of the early medieval period, through the bardic age, the coterie poets of Anglo-Ireland, the nationalist balladeers of Young Ireland, the Irish Literary Revival, and the advent of modernity. As capacious as it is diverse, this book is an essential contribution to scholarship in the field.Trade Review'Thanks to ground-breaking volumes such as this one, the radiant light of women's poetry will no longer be extinguished and obscured. One of the achievements of this volume is the decision to describe the literary scene not only by drawing on well-known major figures but also by including often overlooked or under-researched writers, depicting a cultural panorama of complexity and multiplicity. ' Pilar Villar-Argáiz, Estudios Irlandeses'a comprehensive overview covering everything from medieval Ireland to the present day.' Erin Cunningham, Times Literary Supplement'… highly recommended …' Pauline Harrison, Women's WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction: why foremothers? Ailbhe Darcy and David Wheatley; 1. The reception of Irish women poets Anne Fogarty; 2. Women in the medieval poetry business Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha; 3. Seventeenth century women's poetry in Ireland Danielle Clarke and Sarah McKibben; 4. The oral tradition Tríona Ni Shíocháin; 5. Archipelagic Ireland: women's anglophone poetry from the eighteenth century Sarah Prescott; 6. Irish Romanticism Catherine Jones; 7. Mary Tighe in life, myth, and literary vicissitude Stephen Behrendt; 8. Masculinity, nationhood and the Irish woman poet, 1860–1922 Lucy Collins; 9. The eclipse of Dora Sigerson Matthew Campbell; 10. Between revivalist lyric and Irish modernism Sarah Bennett; 11. The other 'northern renaissance' Jaclyn Allen; 12. Rematriating mid-century modernism: Carla Lanyon Lanyon Moynagh Sullivan; 13. Accidental Irishness and the transnational legacy of Lola Ridge Daniel Tobin; 14. Crisis and renewal: Irish-language poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Daniela Theinová; 15. The poetry of Máire Mhac an tSaoi and the indivisibility of love Patricia Coughlan; 16. Voices from limbo: Biddy Jenkinson David Wheatley; 17. Bilingual poetry Kenneth Keating; 18. Catholicism in modern Irish women's poetry Catriona Clutterbuck; 19. 1970s–80s feminism Kit Fryatt; 20. The art of fabrication: reading Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin Maria Johnston; 21. Eavan Boland, history and silence Guinn Batten; 22. Paula Meehan and the public poem Kathryn Kirkpatrick; 23. Formalism and contemporary women's poetry Tara McEvoy; 24. Susan Howe, Maggie O'Sullivan, Catherine Walsh Nerys Williams; 25. Irish women's poetry beyond the now Anne Mulhall.
£88.99
Cambridge University Press Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisA primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Singing to the Lyre is the first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous practice, which was cultivated by performers ranging from popes, princes, and many artists, to professionals of both mercantile and humanist background. Common to all was a strong degree of mixed orality based on a synergy between writing and the oral operations of memory, improvisation, and performance. As a cultural practice deeply rooted in language and supported by ancient precedent, cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre) is also a reflection of Renaissance cultural priorities, including the status of vernacular poetry, the study and practice of rhetoric, the oral foundations of humanist education, and the performative culture of the courts reflected in theatrical presentations and Castiglione''s Il cortegiano.Trade Review'For many years Blake Wilson has tantalised us with a string of articles on singers of improvised verse in Italy in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Now, with this important and wide-ranging book, we come to know the world of the cantarini, from simple street singers to accomplished improvisers of versified epics performing in public, to refined singers 'to the lyre', without whom no festivity or banquet was complete. Drawing on a wide range of materials, Wilson is able to trace the lives of the famous canterini in surprising detail. Along the way, we learn of the longevity of the chanson de geste; the attraction of blind singers to the profession; the role of memory in improvisation; the art of performing extempore verse; the question of improvised verse as intellectual property; and above all, the central figure of Orpheus, in philosophy, religion, poetry, theatre, and music.' Bonnie J. Blackburn, Wolfson College, OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Civic Tradition: The Art of the Canterino: 1. Early history: Ioculatores and Giullari; 2. The Trecento Canterino; Excersus 1: Piazza San Martino: performance, urban space, and audience; 3. The Canterino in the fifteenth century; Part II. The Humanist Tradition: Cantare ad Lyram: 4. Florence: from Canterino to Cantare ad Lyram; Excursus 2: Filippino Lippi's portrait of a Canterino; 5. Cantare ad Lyram and humanist education; 6. Cantare ad Lyram in the courts; 7. Rome: Cantare ad Lyrum at the summit; Epilogue: the sixteenth century.
£110.70
Cambridge University Press Molière in Context
Book SynopsisThis definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Equally thorough and wide-ranging, it is an exceptional tribute to the premier French dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his birth.Table of ContentsBiographical preface Georges Forestier; Part 1. Socio-political Context: 1. A Bourgeois at court Mathieu da Vinhae; 2. The religious climate Julia Prest; 3. Medicine Valerie Worth-Stylianou; 4. Family law Janine Lanza; 5. Women Wendy Perkins; 6. Gender, masculinity and cross-dressing Joseph Harris; Part 2. Intellectual and Artistic Context: 7. Philosophical influences Jean-Luc Robin; 8. Molière and classical theatre Michael Call; 9. The survival of medieval and renaissance professional practices Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès; 10. Commedia dell'arte Claude Bourqui; 11. The literary establishment Richard Maber; 12. Are the Précieuses only ridicules? Molière, salon culture and the shaping of France's collective memory Faith E. Beasley; Part 3. Theatrical Context (Paris): 13. Molière's theatres in Paris Philippe Cornuaille; 14. Stage design in Paris Philippe Cornuaille; 15. Company administration Jan Clarke; 16. The theatre industry and cultures of consumption Sabine Chaouche; 17. Acting style Sabine Chaouche; Part 4. Theatrical Context (Court): 18. Colbert, cultural policy and the propaganda of spectacle Georgia Cowart; 19. The decors of comedy-ballet: from the 'Songe de Vaux' to the 'Rêve de Versailles' Marie-Claude Canova-Green; 20. Court performances and their audiences Laura Naudeix; 21. Music Anne Piéjus; 22. The livrets of Molière's plays Marine Roussillon; Part 5. Reception and dissemination: 23. Audience laughter Coline Piot; 24. The triumph of publicity Christophe Schuwey; 25. Molière and his critics: the 'Querelles' Jeanne-Marie Hostiou; 26. Molière and his publishers Michael Call; 27. Molière In print Michael Hawcroft; 28. Early modern English translations of Molière Suzanne Jones; Part 6. Afterlives: 29. Molière at the hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française: the early years Jan Clarke; 30. Comedy after Molière Guy Spielmann; 31. Molière as national hero Mechele Leon; 32. Molière in performance: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions Noël Peacock; 33. Molière on the modern Anglophone stage Cédric Ploix; 34. Who and what is Molière? The film director's perspective Noël Peacock; 35. Molière in the Arab world Angela Daiana Langone; 36. Digital Molière Claude Bourqui.
£85.00
Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge
Book SynopsisThis new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological crisis.Table of Contents1. Coleridge at 250: a Poet for the Twenty-first Century Tim Fulford; 2. Political Coleridge Jacob Lloyd; 3. Coleridge and Collaboration Felicity James; 4. Nature Lyrics Gregory Leadbetter; 5. Coleridge's Ecopoetics Joanna E. Taylor; 6. Gothic Coleridge, Ballad Coleridge Margaret Russett; 7. Coleridge's Metres Ewan James Jones; 8. Coleridge and the Theatre Michael Gamer and Jeffrey N. Cox; 9. Coleridge the Walker Alan Vardy; 10. Notebook Coleridge Thomas Owens; 11. Coleridge and Science Kurtis Hessel; 12. Religious Coleridge Jeffrey W. Barbeau; 13. Coleridge the Lecturer and Critic Charles W. Mahoney; 14. Coleridge's Philosophies Nicholas Halmi; 15. Coleridge's Later Poetry Karen Swann; 16. Coleridge and History Tom Duggett.
£22.99
Taylor & Francis Black Music Black Poetry
Book SynopsisBlack Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, JayneTrade Review'Black Music, Black Poetry makes an important contribution to African American Studies, not least because Gordon Thompson has assembled a group of scholars who actually, truly listen to the music-and whose critical practice therefore exemplifies what interdisciplinarity at its best looks (and sounds) like.' Jürgen E. Grandt, University of North Georgia, USA, author of Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative (2004) ’... these essays provide rich insight into the fascinating subject of jazz, improvisatory music, and poetry, and how their forms and structures enhance each art form. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.’ ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Introduction: lyrical aesthetics in African American poetry, Gordon E. Thompson. Part I Authenticity in Black Music and Poetry: ’Original rags’: African American secular music and the cultural legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry, Ray Sapirstein; Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spirituals, Lauri Ramey; ’Greatest is the song’: blues as poetic communication in early Langston Hughes and Sterling A. Brown, John Edgar Tidwell; ’A real, solid, sane, racial something’: Langston Hughes’s blues poetry, David Chinitz. Part II Jazz: Its Spiritual Lyricism: The funk aesthetic in African American poetry, Tony Bolden; ’Go in the wilderness’: the missionary impulse of Michael Harper’s poetry, Joseph A. Brown. Part III Lyricism and the Sonic Aesthetic: Amiri Baraka: phenomenologist of jazz spirit, Christopher Winks; Nathaniel Mackey’s ’Song of the Andoumboulou’: making different music, Scarlett Higgins; Hearing a new musical instrument: Harryette Mullen’s critical lyricism, Lisa Mansell. Part IV Transformational Lyricism: ’Taking it out!’: Jayne Cortez’s collaborations with the Firespitters, Renee M. Kingan; Pops, pygmies, and Pentecostal fire: Sanders and Thomas’s ’The Creator has a Master Plan’, Michael Coyle; References; Index.
£49.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Adapting King Lear for the Stage
Book SynopsisQuestioning whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares Nahum Tate''s History of King Lear (1681), adaptations by David Garrick in the mid-eighteenth century, and nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques to twentieth-century theatrical rewritings of King Lear, and suggests latter-day adaptations should be viewed as a unique genre that allows playwrights to express modern subject positions with regard to their literary heritage while also participating in broader debates about art and society. In identifying and relocating different adaptive gestures within this historical framework, Bradley explores the link between the critical and the creative in the history of Shakespearean adaptation. Focusing on works such as Gordon Bottomley''s King Lear''s Wife (1913), Edward Bond''s Lear (1971), Howard Barker''s Seven Lears (1989), and the Women''s Theatre Group''s Lear''Trade Review'To historicize adaptations of Shakespeare by using character as a bridge (theoretically and pragmatically) between adapted text and adaptation allows Bradley to show well what happens when what she calls the "ironic double gesture" is invoked in order to both use and yet challenge the Bard. The shift from Bardolatry to feminist contestation is presented and enacted here with clarity and a certain brio.' Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto, Canada '... [Bradley’s] analysis of the distinct variations in twentieth-century adaptations is fascinating... Bradley’s book ultimately becomes a solid defence of the unique value of adaptation as a way to navigate a problematic cultural heritage while evolving within it an expression for our particular cultural moment.' Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre ResearchTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; 'Why this is not Lear': adaptations before the 20th century; 'Other accents borrow': Bottomley, Baring, and a new approach to adaptation; 'Only we shall retain the name': Bond's Lear and Barker's Seven Lears; 'Re-vision' of the kingdom: feminist adaptations of King Lear; Conclusion: 'The promised end'?; Bibliography; Index.
£45.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Revivals Arguing With The Past 1989
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf's reading of past literature, philosophy, and science gave her an intellectual and emotional purchase on problems of feminism and modernism. Beer examines how writers create dialogues with past writing, how readers of the present day engage with the difference of past literature, and how we make contact with the desires and debates of past readers. Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introductory 2. Origins and Oblivion in Victorian Narrative 3. Pamela and Arcadia: Reading Class, Genre, Gender 4. Richardson, Milton, and The Status of Evil 5. Carlylean Transports 6. Circulatory Systems: Money, Gossip, and Blood in Middlemarch 7. Beyond Determinism: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf 8. The Victorians in Virginia Woolf: 1832-1941 9. Virginia Woolf and Pre-History 10. Hume, Stephen, and Elegy in To the Lighthouse; Index
£31.34
Taylor & Francis Ltd Wordsworths Historical Imagination Routledge Revivals
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£137.75
British Library, Historical Print Editions Eva OConnor a poem in three cantos by an author
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British Library, Historical Print Editions The Pilgrims of the Sun a poem Superstition A
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Nug A rhyming medley
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Fragments in Prose and Verse
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