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  • Reading Philip Larkin: Selected Poems

    by John Gilroy ...
    The book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation. Part 1, Life and Times, traces Larkin's early years and follows his development, within his career as a university librarian, into one of the most important and popular voices in twentieth-century poetry. Part 2, Artistic Strategies, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Romantics and the Era of Early Flight

    by John Gilroy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature

    by John Gilroy ...

    $14.29 CAD

  • Dark Horse Comics/DC Comics: Mask

    by John Arcudi, Alan Grant, Henry Gilroy ...
    Grifter and the Mask team up and face off against smugglers at a Las Vegas weapons show. After destroying a planet, the Mask has a bounty on his head and Lobo hot on his tail in a mind-bending, time twisting showdown between madmen. And last, but not least, the Joker stumbles upon the mask which inspires a new super-powered reign for the Clown Prince of Crime!This volume collects Grifter/The Mask ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • A Commentary on Wordsworth's Prelude

    Books I-V

    by Ted Holt, John Gilroy ...
    Series series RLE: Wordsworth and Coleridge
    First published in 1983, this books aims to guide Wordsworth students through his difficult masterpiece by reading it in continuous sequence and making its sense emerge. The special value of this commentary is that it explains the structure of The Prelude by encouraging study of the poem as a continuous whole rather than selectively looking at individual sections — an approach that has typified ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Philip Larkin Poems

    Selected by Martin Amis

    by Philip Larkin ...
    For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Age of Wonder

    How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

    by Richard Holmes ...
    Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook’s first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Country and the City

    by Raymond Williams ...
    Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society’s changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication, power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent, peaceful, backward ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Frankenstein

    or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text

    by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...' Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Sidetracks

    by Richard Holmes ...
    In this beautiful reissue, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical curiosities he discovered while researching the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.‘Sidetracks' is a sister book to 'Footsteps', conjured up from decades of 'wanderings from the straight and narrow' of his major biographies of Shelley and Coleridge. As Holmes himself says, 'to be ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • This Long Pursuit

    Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

    by Richard Holmes ...
    ‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ OldieIn this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers.Central to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Redress of Poetry

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD