ATWOOD, MARGARET (FOREWORD)

Barbed Lyres Canadian Venomous Verse

Key Porter Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1550132520. First Edition. Black Hardcovers in Fine condition, tight, bright & unmarked. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. A very small tear to the back cover bottom edge.. "Barbed Lyres contains winning entries and special celebrity submissions from a nationwide contest for satirical verse sponsored by This Magazine, Canada's most independent political, social and cultural journal. The judges of the contest were author Margaret Atwood, columnist Allan Fotheringham and songwriter Nancy White. Over 100 of the best entries are featured." ; 8.6 X 5.4 X 0.5 inches; 112 pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 26391

Catalogue: Canadian Poetry, Literary Criticism

Keywords: 1550132520 Poetry > Canadian Literary Critcism Canada Poetry Literary & Literary Citicism Reference

BRAULT, GERARD J.

La Chanson de Roland Student Edition

Penn State University Press, 2005. Paperback. ISBN: 0271003758. French text. In Fine condition. "Gerard Brault's 1984 student edition of La Chanson de Roland has become a standard text in classrooms. It contains the text and translation from his 1978 analytical edition along with an introduction illuminating the poem's historical and literary background and significance. This new revised edition contains a new preface and makes significant improvements to both the text and the bibliography. The text and a line-by-line prose translation are printed on facing pages. Brault's editing of the Oxford text includes corrections of the scribe's obvious errors and new readings of garbled or partially obliterated words, and his translation achieves both elegance and accuracy." ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 243 pages. Fine+ .

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Book number: 24350

Catalogue: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Keywords: 0271003758 Literary Criticism European Continental Europeran Romances Poetry Romance Poetry Literary & Literary Citicism Europe

FENTON, JAMES

An Introduction to English Poetry

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Paperback. ISBN: 0374528896. Trade Paperback. The pages are tightly bound, there are notations thorugh the book. Otherwise a Very Good book. "Contents: The history and scope of English poetry --Where music and poetry divide --The training of the poet --The sense of form --The Iambic pentameter --Variations in the line --Patterns of stress --Mysteries of the Trochee --The genius of the Trochee --The shorter lines --The Iambic tetrameter --The longer lines --The shorter stanza --The longer stanza --The sonnet --Minor forms --Rhyme --Syllabics --Free verse --Writing for the eye --Song --Poetic drama and opera --Glossary. "; 8.0 X 5.0 X 0.3 inches; 152 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 25956

Catalogue: Poetry, European Literary Criticism, History

Keywords: 0374528896 Poetry European Literary Criticism History Poetry Literary & Literary Citicism History Europe

FRASER G. S.

Ezra Pound: Writers and Critics

London, Ont.: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Paperback. Trade Paperback in Good+ condition. Heavy rubbing to the covers with light underlining and markings thorugh the book. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 118 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 26169

Catalogue: American Poetry, Literary Criticism