Books on Poetry
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Obituary of Oliver Elton (1861 - 1945). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 31.
20p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, cover marginally soiled
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Seventy Odes. Ed. and transl H B Mayor.
viii 248p cloth with dustjacket, index, very good condition
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Wine, Water and Song.
64p yellow wrappers (a little soft), 16 poems, fifth edition, clean
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler.
2 volumes, xxvi 258p + 297p dark green embossed cloth, includes notes, biography, critical essay by ...
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Mediterranean Sonnets.
[x] 155p cloth, dustjacket, few illustrations, table, map, author inscription and letter, a firm ...
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The Phoenix Review Special Issue: A Tribute to A D Hope.
80p large paperback, cover somewhat marked
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The Book of English Elegies.
xii 316p dark blue embossed cloth, illumination at beginning of each chapter and to first letter of ...
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A Day by the North Sea.
28p stapled, letter from author laid in, cover yellowed otherwise very good
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Poet of the People: An Evaluation of James Whitcombe Riley.
108p 18cm quarter cloth, from a Cambridge college library, very good
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La Crise dans la Tête. (L'Arc, Vol 70).
104p paperback, plates, includes articles by Foucault, Thibaudeau, some markings but very good
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The Late Augustans: Longer Poems of the Later Eighteenth Century.
xxxiv 130p cloth, dustjacket, frontispiece, includes Gray's Elegy, Smart's Song to David, ...
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Love Poems 1942 - 1982.
viii 80p large paperback, Tony Tanner's copy inscribed by the author, copy no. 110, a firm and ...
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Lord Randolph: A Poem in Four Cantos.
300p 17cm embossed cloth, gilt title, dedicated to (but not about) Randolph Spencer-Churchill, ...
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The Professor at the Breakfast-Table.
288p 17cm cloth, top edge gilt, some verses, wear to ends of spine, still a very good copy
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The Poet at the Breakfast-Table.
320p 17cm cloth, top edge gilt, some verses, wear to ends of spine, still a very good copy
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Gedichte.
75p small paper label along spine removed with minimal loss, real label to front, 21.Tausend
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Franciso Peralto.
12p stapled, biography of author part of cover artwork, frontispiece, introduction by Iaime Siles, ...
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Martialis Epigrammata Selecta: Select Epigrams from Martial with English Notes by F A Paley and W H Stone.
xx 460p small format, brown cloth, fresh and clean copy, binding tight, text clean, name to ...
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David Holbrook; Christopher Middleton; David Wevill. (Penguin Modern Poets 4)
112p black paperback, collection of poems by the three authors, index, very good
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Family Reunion.
xiii 146p cloth, dustjacket (light spotting and damage to edges), very good
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West African Poetry. A Critical History.
ix 351p large paperback, turquoise cover, very good condition, minimal wear, covers lightly sunned, ...
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Form in Modern Poetry.
xiii 81p paper covered boards pink, from a Cambridge college library, cover somewhat hurt where ...
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Two Voices.
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Fire-Bird: A Study of D H Lawrence.
vi 81p cloth black striking dustjacket, (yellowed, spine edges marginally worn), fresh clean copy, ...
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Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba: Selected Poems 1954 - 74.
114p paperback, very good, from a Cambridge college library
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John Brown's Body.
xv 336p cloth, dustjacket (edges yellowed), map to endpapers, illustrated title page, introduction ...
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Hesperides, or Works Both Human and Divine.
319p green cloth, introduction by Henry Morley, top of spine rubbed, text clean, inner hinges ...
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For the Unfallen.
59p paperback, maroon cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages like new, a ...
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Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
45p cloth, dustjacket, edges gilt, blue paper, illustrations, ornamented initials, name in ink, ...
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Dark Wind Blowing.
63p hardback, dustjacket, author inscription, Rylands bookplate, very good first edition
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'Mr Prior' and Alexander Pope. Offprint, Review of English Studies, 33.
7p stapled, notes, very good
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The Oxford Book of Russian Verse. 2nd ed. rev D P Costello.
xliv 312p 17cm blue cloth with gilt title, English introduction by Baring, Russian texts, biogr ...
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Satires. Ed. G A Aitken. New ed.
viii 244p 17cm blue cloth with elaborate gilt design to front cover and ornament to spine, gilt top ...
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Amaranth-Sage Epiphanies of Dusk-Weaving Paradise. 2nd ed.
190p green cloth, dustjacket, letter by the author inserted, as new
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The Poetical Works of John Milton Vol 1.
xx cxxxiv 153p green cloth embossed in gilt and black, some foxing to paper, partly removed label ...
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News of the Devil.
39p black cloth with original paper label to spine, slightly dusty, back board slightly hurt, text ...
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The Heron and Other Poems.
37p paper covered boards, cover a little yellowed, first edition
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Spanish Ballads.
xvi 218p 19cm terracotta cloth, collection of Spanish ballads and verse romances including ...
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Palmström. 12th & 13th ed.
82p original wartime paper cover illustrations in colour, front cover detaching, page edges a ...
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Childhood at Brighton and Wartime Verses.
68p blue buckram with gilt title on spine, dustjacket, inscribed by the author, also includes ...
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Looking Into the Heart of Light: Poems.
x 94p hardback, inscribed by the author to Tony Tanner & also includes presentation letter to him ...
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Sieben politische Gedichte der Hs. B.L. Harley 2253: Textausgabe und Kommentar.
x lxxx 225p green paperback, author iscription, notes, bibliography, index, excellent copy
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Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry.
198p hardback, jacket, appendix, index, clean copy from a Cambridge college library
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