wyszukanych pozycji: 62
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The Redress of Poetry
ISBN: 9780571175376 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. There is something about a treasure, wrote Joseph Conrad, that fastens on a man's mind. And, yes, there is something about the subject of treasure hunting that continues to fascinate us. One need only browse the Web to discover a whole netherworld of treasure-hunting magazines, metal-detector clubs, and lost-mine information exchanges that apparently engage the funds and spare time of thousands of hopefuls. Charles Elliott recaptures the essential romance of the search in this collection of classic stories. Many are true - or purport to be. They take place under the sea, in jungles, on desert...
There is something about a treasure, wrote Joseph Conrad, that fastens on a man's mind. And, yes, there is something about the subject of treasure hun...
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85,71 |
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The Letters of Seamus Heaney
ISBN: 9780571341085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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201,76 |
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Station Island
ISBN: 9780571133024 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney.'Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.' John Carey, Sunday Times
The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of t...
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65,53 |
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The Cure at Troy
ISBN: 9780571327652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes that tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes' invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help.
A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes that tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict com...
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65,53 |
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Aeneid Book VI
ISBN: 9780571327331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld.
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows t...
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65,53 |
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The Haw Lantern
ISBN: 9780571352326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss--including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother--joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein.ical vein.
Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss--inclu...
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75,62 |
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Opened Ground
ISBN: 9780571194933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A reissue of Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, which has been expanded to include work from two subsequent collections, Seeing Things and the award-winning The Spirit Level, as well as poems not previously published.
A reissue of Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, which has been expanded to include work from two subsequent collections, Seeing Things and the awa...
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100,88 |
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Field Work
ISBN: 9780571114337 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A collection of elegies and love poems, and a short sonnet sequence which concentrates on such themes as: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death.
A collection of elegies and love poems, and a short sonnet sequence which concentrates on such themes as: the individual's responsibility for his own ...
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65,53 |
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Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978
ISBN: 9780374516505 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's far... |
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76,23 |
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Sweeney Astray
ISBN: 9780571210091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a demented flying creature at the Battle of Moira.
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventure...
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65,53 |
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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
ISBN: 9780374528782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from Heaney's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue,... A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel la... |
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118,11 |
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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001
ISBN: 9780571210916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?
Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and...
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100,88 |
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The Letters of Seamus Heaney
ISBN: 9780571341092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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100,88 |
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Government of the Tongue
ISBN: 9780571141517 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work he considers might call into question the rights of poetic utterance. The author asks whether the voice of the poet should be governed, or whether it should be the governor.
Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work he considers might call into question the righ...
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65,53 |
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100 Poems
ISBN: 9780571347155 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. But now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to ser...
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95,79 |
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Seeing Things
ISBN: 9780571144693 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled Squarings, shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and to credit marvels. The title poem, Seeing Things, is typical of the whole book. It begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary while never relinquishing its feel for the textures and sensations of the world.
This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled Squarings, shows he is ready to re-imagine ...
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65,53 |
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The Translations of Seamus Heaney
ISBN: 9780374277734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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252,20 |
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Beowulf
ISBN: 9780571203765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.
Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In ...
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65,53 |
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The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry
ISBN: 9780571225835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets. Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary... The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages an... |
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95,79 |
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Selected Poems 1966-1987
ISBN: 9780374535605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Between my fingers and my thumb Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This edition, arranged by the author himself, includes the seminal early poetry that struck readers with the force of revelation and heralded the arrival of an heir to Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Frost. "Between my fingers and my thumb Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking w... |
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