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  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    by Laurence Sterne, Sir Christopher Ricks ...
    'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • True Friendship

    Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound

    by Christopher Ricks ...
    Series series The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series
    True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell—through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and Pound being in their turn contemplated anew through the lenses of their successors. Hill, Hecht, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poems of T. S. Eliot, Volume I

    Collected and Uncollected Poems

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    Series Book 1 - Poems of T. S. Eliot
    The first volume of the first paperback edition of The Poems of T. S. EliotThis two-volume critical edition of T. S. Eliot's poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909–1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." In addition to the masterpieces, The Poems of T. S. Eliot ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Along Heroic Lines

    by Christopher Ricks ...
    A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when his inaugural lecture engaged with the illuminatingly puzzled relations between poetry and prose. ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Mangan Inheritance

    by Brian Moore ...
    Not so long ago James Mangan was a brilliant young poet. These days, however, he toils as a journalist and shivers in the shadow of his glamorous movie-star wife. And now she has left him for her lover. Adrift and depressed, Jamie takes refuge with his father, in whose house he turns up a 19th-century daguerreotype bearing the initials “J.M.” and depicting a man who, as it happens, is Jamie’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Poems of T. S. Eliot, Volume II

    Practical Cats and Further Verses

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    Series Book 2 - Poems of T. S. Eliot
    The second volume of the first paperback edition of The Poems of T. S. Eliot, featuring Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of Anabase.This two-volume critical edition of T. S. Eliot's poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909–1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, "The Love Song of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I

    Collected and Uncollected Poems

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    Here, for the first time, is a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot's youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Elected Friends

    Robert Frost and Edward Thomas: To One Another

    by Christopher Ricks ...
    Robert Frost and Edward Thomas met in a bookshop in London in 1913. During the next four years, the two writers—Frost, an unknown poet who had sold his farm in New Hampshire in order to take his family to England for one last gamble on poetry and Thomas, a sad literary journalist—formed the most important friendship between poets since that of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Their friendship only ended ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • John Donne: Collected Poetry

    by John Donne ...
    Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Collected Poetry reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Tennyson

    A Selected Edition

    Edited by Christopher Ricks ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson.The collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems: The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Other key works are included from Mariana, The Lady of Shallott, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II

    Practical Cats and Further Verses

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems

    (American Poets Project #17)

    by Samuel Menashe ...
    Series Book 17 - American Poets Project
    The most comprehensive collection available of Menashe’s concise and powerfully suggestive poetrySamuel Menashe (1925-2011) was the first recipient of The Poetry Foundation’s Neglected Masters Prize in 2004 and this volume was published in conjunction with that award. Born in New York City, Menashe practiced his art of “compression and crystallization” (in Derek Mahon's phrase) in poems that are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD