Classical, Early & Medieval
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Horace: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Llewelyn Morgan
9780192849649 This book examines the career of the Roman poet Horace, one of the greatest writers in Roman literature. It introduces his poetry with illustrations from all his works, and contextualises his career in Greek and Roman literary tradition and within the tumultuous events of his life as civil war gave way to the reign of the first emperor Augustus. |
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Selected Poems£8.99 Du Bellay, Ronsard, Anthony Mortimer
9780192847997 From the gritty realism and resentment of Du Bellay to the lyric grace and frank eroticism of Ronsard, the poems of this volume testify to the many-faceted achievement of the two poets who, as leaders of the famous 'Pléiade' group, were crucial to the creation of a new national literature. |
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Lykophron: Alexandra£8.99 Lykophron, Simon Hornblower
9780198863342 The Alexandra, attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the Hellenistic period. |
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Estate Management and Symposium£8.99 Xenophon, Emily Baragwanath, Anthony Verity
9780198823513 Xenophon recounted several Socratic dialogues which included his Symposium and Oeconomicus and both are concerned with Athenian private life. They are literary creations that reveal Xenophon as a skilled literary artist, an innovative thinker, and far from merely reflecting the conventional thinking of the world around him. |
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Elegies of Chu£12.99 Nicholas Morrow Williams
9780198818311 This anthology, Elegies of Chu, will provide readers with an understanding of Chinese literature, examining its evolution from free-spirited, mythico-religious songs to the more formal, polished style of the Han court. |
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Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones£18.99 Francesca Brooks
9780198860143 Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieval past in its renegotiation of local, religious, and national identities. |
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World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture£18.99 Louise D'Arcens
9780198825951 Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present. |
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Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra£4.99 Sophocles, Oliver Taplin
9780192806864 These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies. |
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Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology£20.00 Anthony Bale, Sebastian Sobecki
9780192848604 The first anthology dedicated to medieval English travel writing, with a focus on the later Middle Ages. It features concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage. |
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Milton's Poetical Thought: The Literary Agenda£15.99 Maggie Kilgour
9780198808824 At a time when literature is thought to have limited value in a world dominated by scientific thinking, this volume offers close readings of John Milton's major works to argue that poetry is a vital means of knowing the world and answering the most fundamental questions. |
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Dante's New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature£20.99 Martin Eisner
9780198869641 Dante's New Life of the Book examines Dante's Vita nuova through its transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations. Eisner investigates how these different material manifestations participate in the work, drawing attention to its distinctive elements. |
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Sophocles: Oedipus the King: A New Verse Translation£12.99 David Kovacs
9780198854845 Sophocles' great masterpiece, Oedipus the King, is here translated into highly-polished English verse alongside an introduction and notes to the translation which seek to make his achievements in both plot and language accessible to students at graduate, undergraduate, and secondary school level. |
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Geoffrey Chaucer: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 David Wallace
9780198767718 Covering Geoffrey Chaucer's life and work, David Wallace considers the influence and enduring appeal of his body of writing, explores the wide ranging geography and iconic characters in his stories, and discusses how Chaucer's own experiences contributed to his literature. |
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The Odyssey£16.99 Homer, Anthony Verity, William Allan
9780199669103 Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus' epic ten year journey home after the end of the Trojan War of the Iliad. Its epic sweep has gripped generations of readers. |
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Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Elaine Treharne
9780199668496 Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introduction covers the earliest beginnings of print culture, and considers major themes of these works, such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous. |
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