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“karl beckson”

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  • Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s

    An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose

    Edited by Karl Beckson ...
    The Aesthetic and Decadent Movement of the late 19th century spawned the idea of "Art for Art's Sake," challenged aesthetic standards and shocked the bourgeosie. From Walter Pater's study, "The Renaissance to Salome, the truly decadent collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Karl Beckson has chosen a full spectrum of works that chronicle the British artistic achievement of the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oscar Wilde

    Edited by Karl Beckson ...
    This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    Translated by Peter Beilenson ...
    by Basho, Buson ...
    Series Book 1 - Peter Pauper Press Classic Haiku
    Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goal was twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional impressions ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Learn Then Burn

    A Modern Poetry Anthology for the Classroom

    by Derrick Brown ...
    Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it’s difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

    by Mr John McGrath ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Strathoykel, Sutherland. "When the Sheriff and his men arrived, the women were on the road and the men behind the walls. The women shouted 'Better to die here than America or the Cape of Good Hope'. The first blow was struck by a woman with a stick. The gentry leant out of their saddles and beat at the women's heads with their crops." (John McGrath) ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Thirty Pieces of Silver

    A Play in Three Acts

    by Howard Fast ...
    A couple in Washington, DC, is torn apart when a friend is accused of treasonJane and David Graham live upper-middle-class lives in mid-century Washington, DC. Jane minds the home with the help of a fulltime maid, and David works at the Treasury Department. But when the FBI visits their house one evening to ask questions about a friend's political beliefs, the answers the two give separately cause ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Theatre of David Greig

    by Clare Wallace ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    David Greig has been described as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation' (Daily Telegraph) and 'one of the most intellectually stimulating dramatists around' (Guardian). Since he began writing for theatre in the early nineties, his work has been both copious and remarkably varied, defying neat generalisations or attempts to pigeon-hole his work. Besides ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Modern Poetry of Pakistan

    Edited by Iftikhar Arif, Waqas Khwaja ...
    Series series Pakistani Literature Series
    Modern Poetry of Pakistan brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages, six of them regional (Baluchi, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, and Sindhi) and one national (Urdu). Collecting the work of forty-two poets and fifteen translators, this book reveals a society riven by ethnic, class, and political differences ... Read more

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  • Three Plays

    Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants

    by Luigi Pirandello ...
    Translated by Anthony Mortimer ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre to foreground the tensions between art and reality. In his best known play, six characters, imagined but then abandoned by their author, intrude on ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Father's Day Poetry

    by Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, Emily Bronte ...
    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at special days of celebration through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a guide to the days within each. The role of Fathers has changed ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • Poetry Please: The Seasons

    by Various Poets ...
    This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

    Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

    by Kristen Poole ...
    Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD