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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a scholarly... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece... (read more) Your price: $3.00 New - Trade Paper
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Making of a Poem: a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (00 Edition) by Mark Strand Publisher Comments Two beloved and esteemed poets have collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, The... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Staff Pick A luminary of American poetry, Emily Dickinson is canonized for good reason. Her poems are vital, wildly eccentric, and filled with her rich and complex imagination. Absolutely essential.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ramayana (06 Edition) by R. K. Narayan Publisher Comments A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Gates : Entering the Mind of Poetry (97 Edition) by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments Poetry and the Mind of Concentration Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections--language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Lost ((3RD)05 Edition) by John Milton Publisher Comments 'Gordon Teskey\"s freshly edited text of Milton\"s masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton\"s... (read more) List Price $24.15 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Twentieth-century American Poetics : Poets on the Art of Poetry (04 Edition) by Dana Gioia Publisher Comments This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $60.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Lost by John Milton Publisher Comments Paradise Lost, by John Milton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America) by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments This Library of America edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman (18191892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with 42 Illustrations by Gustave Doré by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Publisher Comments Doré's dramatic engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are considered by many to be his greatest work. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the hot equatorial seas swarming with monsters, the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R K Narayan Publisher Comments A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ramayana : a Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic (03 Edition) by Ramesh Menon Publisher Comments The great Indian epic rendered in modern prose India's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's great literary masterpieces. Still an integral part of India's cultural and religious expression, the... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Portable Walt Whitman (04 Edition) by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments When Walt Whitman self-published a collection of 12 poems entitled Leaves of Grass in 1855, he was an unknown, but ambitious, journalist from Long Island - by the time of his death he was beginning to be recognised as one of the most distinctive poetic... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Complete Poems (04 Edition) by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Faerie Queene (78 Edition) by Edmund Spenser Publisher Comments ‘Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine’ The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of Songs (96 Edition) by Arthur (translator) Waley Synopsis One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat outward things: deeds,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (73 Edition) by Osip Mandelstam Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Edition) by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaney"s clear and insightful introduction to Beowulfprovides students with an... (read more) List Price $19.90 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Norton Introduction to Poetry, Ninth Edition by J Paul Hunter Publisher Comments It not only sharpens students' close-reading skills and deepens their appreciation for the emotional power of poetry, but also connects poetry to the larger world by providing a thorough introduction to poetry's authorial, cultural, and critical contexts.... (read more) List Price $79.55 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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