Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan post”
Skip side bar filters

  • English Lyric Poetry

    The Early Seventeenth Century

    by Jonathan Post ...
    English Lyric Poetry is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and responds to more specialised scholarly inquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets.This extremely lucid and elegantly written book avoids the limitations of much recent criticism. Donne, Jonson, the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan F. S. Post ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase 'To be or not to be'?), yet whilst his poems may often feel less familiar than his plays they have also seeped into our cultural history (who has ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

    Edited by Jonathan Post ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Elizabeth Bishop

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan F.S. Post ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 21 min

    Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the "best-loved" poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the ninety or so published poems that are at the core of her remarkable canon of verse. Drawing on biographical and critical material, Jonathan Post also makes frequent use of Bishop's letters and commentary by fellow poets, including Marianne ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Thickness of Particulars

    The Poetry of Anthony Hecht

    by Jonathan F. S. Post ...
    A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's correspondence, which the author edited, it situates Hecht's writings in the context of pre- and post-World-War II verse, including poetry written by W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan F. S. Post ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the 90 or so published poems that are at the core of her remarkable canon of verse. Drawing on biographical and critical material, Jonathan Post also makes frequent use of Bishop's letters ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht

    by Anthony Hecht ...
    Spanning seven decades, these often intimate, brilliantly astute letters by the eminent poet Anthony Hecht reflect a body of work that influenced the history of twentieth-century American poetry.Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) was known not only for his masterful control of form and language but also for his wit and humor.With the help of Helen Hecht, the poet’s widow, ... Read more

    $33.59 USD

  • China Renaissance, The: The Rise Of Xi Jinping And The 18th Communist Party Congress

    by Writers, Artists And Editors Of The South China Morning Post, Jonathan Sharp ...
    Rising superpower China duly anointed a new generation of leaders led by Xi Jinping at the Communist Party's 18th National Congress held in November 2012. While the conclave itself passed off with smoothly choreographed efficiency, the months leading up to this once-a-decade transition were anything but orderly. Intense factional wrangling behind the scenes was accompanied by scandals very much in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Best of the Best American Poetry

    1988-1997

    by David Lehman, Harold Bloom ...
    Every year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventy-five poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. The series has quickly grown in both sales and prestige, as poetry itself has seen a remarkable resurgence in popularity and vitality, fueled by established poets at the peak of their powers and a new generation of daring voices. As we approach the millennium, now is the opportune moment ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

    by Jane Rickard ...
    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The End of the Poem

    Oxford Lectures

    by Paul Muldoon ...
    In The End of the Poem, Paul Muldoon, "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War" ( The Times Literary Supplement), presents engaging, rigorous, and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography." Here Muldoon reminds us that the word "poem" comes, via ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • You, Too, Could Write a Poem

    by David Orr ...
    A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one placePoetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected here, most of them written originally for the New York Times, Orr is at his rigorous, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $6.99 USD