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Matthew Hollis Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. This title gives an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with... | Sean Borodale A poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive, from the collection of a small nucleus on the first day to the capture of a swarm two years... |
Simon Armitage Deals with the warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. | Stephen Spender; Lara Feigel; John... A dedication to Stephen Spender, who in 1932 wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in 1995. It provides a... |
Fiona Sampson A guide that explains and celebrates various parallel poetry projects. It examines the range of contemporary tendencies - from the baroque swagger of the Dandies to the restrained elegance of... | Josephine Hart Josephine Hart, author of the bestselling novel Damage, had what she called 'a long love affair' with poetry. It was an affair that started as a child and lasted until... |
John Burnside Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find -... | John Batchelor Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. This biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring... |
Nicholas Roe A biography of Romantic poet John Keats that explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, it reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man... | Roberto Calasso Focuses on the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called the Modern. The author creates a dramatic Folie Baudelaire: a place where... |
Danielle Steel Shows us how the author transformed the loss of her beloved son pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine. In this book... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £12.99 | £9.48 | 27% |  Despatched in 1 business day. |   Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am tomorrow. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £12.99 | £11.04 | 15% |  Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| Christine Evans Seldom does one get the chance to get as close as this to the writing process. The poet asks "Where does it come from, what starts it off, this itch... |
Dante Alighieri; Robert M. Durling;... Presents a prose translation of Dante's epic. This translation is about Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell. It includes Italian text on facing pages, and features fully comprehensive notes as well... | Johnson, David F.; Claassens, Geert ... The romances translated here are contained in the so-called Lancelot Compilation. Compiled in the early fourteenth century by five scribes, its 241 extant folios... |
Johnson, David F.; Claassens, Geert H. An adaptation of an Old French romance with parallel text, notes and a detailed introduction... | Johnson, David F.; Claassens, Geert H. Edition with English translation of Middle Dutch version of the adventures of Gawain... |