Books on Poetry
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The Art of Jean Racine.
xiv 352p large two-tone cloth volume, tired dustjacket present, index, a clean copy with light ...
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The Style of la Fontaine's Fables.
xvii 211p cloth, dustjacket, index, bibliography, very good, First Edition
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Selected Poems.
233p blue cloth coloured fresh, vignette to titlepage, original dustjacket! a fresh and clean copy
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Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol 3 (1700 - 1800) Part 2: Gay - Philips.
375p large format hardback, plates, indices, as new
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New Poems, Ed. F G Kenyon. With two Portraits.
xxix 184p original cloth firm and tight, printed on strong paper, clean firm and fresh copy, first ...
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Poetry by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers.
xxi 294p navy cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, appendix, index, as new unused copy
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Sometime the Cow Kick Your Head: The Biennial of Light Verse and Witty Poems. Light Year '88/9.
235p russet cloth, dustjacket, illustrated by Bonnie Jackson, poems by Alfred Dorn, Marian Gleason, ...
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Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie. Ed. J Churton Collins.
xxviii 111p blue cloth, text with notes, index, few faint pencil markings & underlinings, cover ...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Introduction for Historians and Others.
v 88p sewn booklet, fresh and clean
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New Poets of England and America. Second Selection.
384p paperback, black and white cover with red design, good condition, light wear to cover surfaces ...
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De Malherbe à Corneille (Les chefs-d'oeuvre lyriques de F de Malherbe et de l'école classique, Vol 1) ed. Auguste Dorchain.
lx 103p small paperback, protective sleeve, hurts on spine and cover, still a very good copy
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Raffinement précieux dans la poésie française du 17ième siècle.
334p large paperback, index, bibliography, appendix, fresh and clean copy, largely un-cut, cover ...
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French Lyric Poetry in the Age of Malherbe.
xiv 156p blue cloth fresh, bibliography, index, a nice clean copy
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La poésie française de 1640 à 1680: Poésie religieuse, épopée, lyrisme officiel.
277p paperback, illustrations, index, bibliography, very good
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Antiquitez de Rome. Translated by Edmund Spenser as Ruines of Rome.
144p paperback, red cover, very good condition, very light wear to cover edges, binding like new, ...
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Le treizième livre des Fables. Préface de Odette de Mourgues.
93p paperback, "exemplaire imprimé spécialement pour Mme Odette de Mourgue", very good indeed
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Le grant testament Villon.
146p small paperback, notes, glossary, many pages uncut, very good, imitating renaissance ...
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Le Comique au Moyen Age; Corneille; La Critique d'art au 19ième et au 20ième siècle. (= Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Études Françaises 37, Mai 1985)
273p large paperback, contributors include Corinne Merlin, Marie-Odile Sweetser, P-G Castex and ...
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Oeuvres poétiques de Lamartine, Vols 1-3.
3 volumes, xxxiv 409p 373p 270p half suede, leather label on spine, notes, top edge gilt, 3 ...
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The Seventeenth-Century French Lyric. (=L'Esprit Créateur, Vol 20, No 4, Winter 1980)
128p large paperback, contributors include Odette de Mourgues, Allen Wood, William Roberts and ...
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Tertullius: The Pannikin Sonnets.
20p stapled booklet, privately published, inscribed by the author on title page, "exemplaire No 1 ...
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Poésies complètes: poèmes antiques et modernes, les destinées, poèmes retranchés ou non recueillis par l'auteur. Introduction et notes par Auguste Dorchain.
lii 353p rebound in full calf with school arms to front, prize label, spine a little hurt, paper ...
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Poems.
xxiii 285p green cloth, spine a bit pale, pages are bright and unmarked, a firm copy, very good
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Verses New and Old.
xi 60p nice bright blue cloth, frontispiece, very good first edition
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Du Poétique Selon l'Humanité non Selon les Poètes.
222p original paperback, notes, appendix, faint marginal pencil markings on a few pages, very good
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Shakespeare, dramaturge élisabéthain.
370p large paperback, bibliography, index, chronological table, extensive author inscription on ...
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Les saisons de l'esprit.
40p stapled booklet with dustjacket, extensive author inscription on title page, very good
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The Friend. A Series of Essays.
389p hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering and design, good condition, binding loose and spine ...
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The Children's Garland from the Best Poets.
xvi 344p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, decoration to cover, decorative title page with tissue ...
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The Script to Cursive Copy Book.
stapled booklet, copy book using poem by Scott, ruled lines for copying text, very good: The days ...
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L'ombre et le Vent.
73p large paperback protective glassine sleeve, collection of poems, very good, included is a typed ...
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Kudrun. Zweite Auflage.
xxvi 352p small half calf binding, index, spine with two leather labels, in very good condition, ...
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Hartmann von Aue, Dritter Teil: Iwein.
xvi 304p half calf binding fresh, index, glossary, spine with two leather labels, in very good ...
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Sonnets chrêtiens sur divers sujets, divisez en quatre livres, par Mr Drelincourt. Dernière édition, à laquelle on a ajouté les pseaumes penitentiaux an vers héroïques.
192p small full calf volume, red title label on spine, minor hurts on spine, leather a bit worn, ...
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Les Diaboliques. Les six Premières. (Oeuvres de J Barbey d'Aurevilly)
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Odes et Bocage 1 - 4. (Oeuvres complètes) Ed. A Gloeckner.
318p large paperback, glassine dustjacket protective sleeve, most pages uncut, a clean and fresh ...
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Psyche et Cupido. Recensit et Emendavit Otto Lahn. Sixth Edition.
small paper covered boards with fine label, 15cm, marbled cover, illustrations, includes Peri ...
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Hagedorns poetische Werke. (Sammlung der besten deutschen prosaischen Schrifsteller und Dichter, Vol 16)
xxxviii 219p 320p 226p half calf firm, two gilt leather labels to spine, vignette, frontispiece, ...
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In Disarray and other Poems.
49p red soft cloth, inscribed by the author to endpaper, transparent sleeve, very good copy
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Ibsen the Norwegian: A Revaluation.
x 150p cloth, index, chronological table, explicatory author inscription on title page, very good
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The Prologue, The Knightes Tale, The Nonne Preestes Tale from the Canterbury Tales. Edited by Richard Morris. A New Edition with Collations and additional Notes by Walter Skeat.
lxii 266p cloth, tight fresh copy, a few faint marginal pencil markings, glossary, notes, index, ...
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A Pageant of Elizabethan Poetry.
vi 412p two-tone paper-covered boards, vellum style spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece with tissue ...
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The Relevance of Greek Poetry.
28p small card wrappers, notes, cover dusty & creased, very good
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The Queen's Garland: Verses Made By Her Subjects for Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Now Collected in Honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
74p hardback, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, cover dulled, pretty volume, very good
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A Handefull of Pleasant Delites, by Clement Robinson and Divers Others. Ed. A Kershaw. 1st ed.
xii 132p quarter cloth & paper-covered boards, cloth title label with gilt lettering to spine, ...
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John Milton: Introduction.
xiv 344p hardback, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 12 essays on Milton's life and work, ...
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