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Rapture
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, “essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages” (The Guardian)
The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her much admi- Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865478864
- Language: English
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The Seagull
$16.00 Add to cartStoppard’s masterful adaptation of Chekhov’s best-loved play has been lauded by critics for its shining prose as well as its faithfulness. The play opens at a country estate, where a group of friends
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127711
- Language: English
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Rembrandt: The Painter at Work
$49.95 Add to cartRembrandt’s intriguing painting technique stirred the imaginations of art lovers during his lifetime and has done so ever since. In this book, now revised, updated, and with a new foreword by the auth… [more below]
- Author: Van de Wetering, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: April 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0520258843
- Language: English
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King Lear
$6.00 Add to cartFirst performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 16 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280586
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself em… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0192801635
- Language: English
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Maldoror and Poems
$20.00 Read moreOne of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing
Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautr?amont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lautr?amont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140443428
- Language: English
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Women of Trakhis: A New Translation
$8.99 Add to cartAmong the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Women of Trakhis is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynami
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132040
- Language: English
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
$9.99 Add to cartThe authoritative edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
Written by Shakespeare and John- Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1982170166
- Language: English
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Forefathers’ Eve
$36.99 Add to cartForefathers’ Eve Dziady] is a four-part dramatic work begun circa 1820 and completed in 1832 – with Part I published only after the poet’s death, in 1860. The drama’s title refers to Dziady, an ancie
- Author: Mickiewicz, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: November 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1911414011
- Language: English
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The Fool & The Bee
$20.00 Add to cart“A masque: it’s all a mask, celebrating the “organic” . . . British nature (transplants to US), in layers of spring and subsequent decay, within a long cultural history and a (to middle age) lifespan,
- Author: Corless-Smith, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1848616449
- Language: English
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A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedmon to the Mid-Twentieth Century
$53.95 Add to cartEnglish speakers have 12 centuries of Christian poetry to draw upon. The examples in this anthology come from all Christian sources including Anglican, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and modern … [more below]
- Author: Trott, James H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 852
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1630269972
- Language: English
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World’s End
$15.00 Read more“World’s End, like much Neruda, contains bewildering multitudes. Some poems incite, others console, as the poet–maestro of his own response and impresario of ours–Looks inward and out.”–Los Angele… [more below]
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1556592825
- Language: Spanish
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The Wild Swans at Coole: A Facsimile Edition
$18.00 Add to cartA stunning facsimile of the 1919 first edition of William Butler Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole: an elegant volume showcasing these poems as they would have first been read and a complement to facsim… [more below]
- Series: Yeats Facsimile Edition
- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 150110604X
- Language: English
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I Think We’re Alone Now
$17.95 Add to cartI Think We’re Alone Now is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new voice in British poetry.
This was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in soli
- Author: Parry, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1780376812
- Language: English
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Some of the Things I’ve Seen
$14.95 Read moreIn her newest collection, Sara Berkeley follows a number of sightlines: watching the landscape from the window of a plane, contemplating the effects of climate change, witnessing human vulnerability a… [more below]
- Author: Berkeley, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1943667055
- Language: English
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Poems of Paris
$20.00 Add to cartA beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Pa- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Fragos, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1101908122
- Language: English
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All That Still Matters at All
$18.95 Add to cartMikl s Radn ti (1909-1944), whose work beautifully combines colloquial modernism with Virgilian classicism, is best known internationally as one of the great poets of the Holocaust: his final, harrowi… [more below]
- Author: Radnoti, Miklos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0984943986
- Language: English
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Hymns to the Night (Revised)
$6.50 Read moreThis bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins’ best-selling translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Friedrich von Hardenberg’s classic romantic long poem, and the substantially diffe
- Author: Higgins, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 55
- Publish Date: September 01, 1988
- ISBN10: 0914232908
- Language: English
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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, Revised Edition
$29.95 Read moreC. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important fig… [more below]
- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #157
- Author: Cavafy, C. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0691015376
- Language: English
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Feminine Gospels
$15.00 Add to cartA new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women–historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life–from the award-winning author of The World’s Wife.
From the sadness of Elizabet- Author: Duffy, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 65
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0571211305
- Language: English
