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John Brown's Body
               Benet, Stephen Vincent

Ivan R. Dee 1990                                       ISBN  092958726X
New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
The monumental poem of the Civil War - an American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

VERSE,AMERICAN LITERATURE,AMERICAN HISTORY,U. S. HISTORY,CIVIL WAR                                                                               
 Book# 4674
US$12.00


         
               One Hundred and One Poems of Romance

               Benton, Christine M. (edit.)

Contemporary 1992                                      
Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Corner creasing of several leaves - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 DJ in a clear protective cover.

Features love poetry from many poets including Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, e.e.cummings, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Anne Sexton and many others.

LOVE,ROMANCE,LOVE POETRY                                                          Book# 3944
US$9.00


         
               The Eleventh Lost Tribe: Poems of the Holocaust

               Brodsky, Louis Daniel

Time Being Books 1998                                       
New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
The Eleventh Lost Tribe asks the reader to confront the dispossessed lives of ghetto dwellers, death-camp survivors, Jews prescient or
 desperate enough to have fled Europe prior to being captured and slaughtered, and, finally, children of the Shoah's refugees or orphans
 of those who perished in it.

JEWS,JUDAISM,HOLOCAUST,DEATH CAMPS,CONCENTRATION CAMPS,FINAL SOLUTION,NAZIS,NAZI GERMANY                       
 Book# 3762
US$8.00


           
               Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Verse

               Brownell, Johanna (edit.)
 Castle 2001   ISBN: 0785813381
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked.
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861 
                     
 ENGLISH LITERATURE,ENGLISH POETS,ROMANTIC MOVEMENT,
 SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE,ROBERT BROWNING       Book #7203,7204
 
US$14.00
     


               Robert Browning, Selected Works
               Browning, Robert
 Castle 2002   ISBN: 0785813357
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Edited by Johanna Brownell. 
                     
 VERSE,ENGLISH LITERATURE,ENGLISH POETS,NINETEENTH CENTURY       Book #7219
 
US$14.00   
  


               Classic English Love Poems
               Capouya, Emile (edit.)
 Hippocrene 1998    ISBN: 0781805724
 New Unread Hardcover in no dustjacket as issued. Laminated decorative binding. Unmarked.
 A nice collection of love poems from the major English poets from Chaucer through Housman with brief
 bibliographical sketches of the poets. Illustrated.
                     
 ENGLISH LITERATURE,ENGLISH POETS,LOVE POETRY       Book #7747
 
US$12.00
     


               Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life

               Clark, Tom
 North Atlantic 2000   ISBN: 1556433425
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. Illustrated.
 “Charles Olson was the most intellectually active American poet of the second half
 of the 20th century.” ___Edward Dorn 
                     
 BIOGRAPHY,POETS,WRITERS,LITERATURE,POSTMODERN       Book #7275
 
US$20.00
    
         

               Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone

               Cox, Mark

University of Pittsburgh Press 1998                  ISBN  0822956691
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
"Mark Cox directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College."

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY                                                                             Book# 4820
US$12.50


         
               Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny

               Crane, David
Four Walls Eight Windows First American Edition 1999   ISBN: 1568581432
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small area of creasing of back; in a clear protective cover.
“As David Crane writes in Lord Byron’s Jackal,’it is given to few men to kill two major poets’(Byron and Shelley).” Illustrated.
                     
BRITISH POETS,PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY,LORD BYRON       Book #7051
    US$14.00
     


               The Wisdom of George Herbert
               Herbert, George
 Lion 1999   ISBN: 0745940773
 New Unread Small (12mo) Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Compiled by Nick Page. George Herbert is one of the greatest devotional poets in English Literature.
                     
 ENGLISH LITERATURE,BRITISH POETS,DEVOTIONAL POETRY       Book #7452
 
US$6.00 
   


               The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
               Kennedy, Caroline (edit.)
 Hyperion Sixth Printing 2001   ISBN: 1401302483
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Full cloth binding. Silk bookribbon sewn in.
 Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother’s favorite poems and the words behind her strong belief
 in the power of literature. Illustrated with photographs of the Kennedy family.
                     
 POEMS,VERSE,POETS,FIRST LADIES,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY       Book #7304
 
US$15.00   
  


               Emma Lazarus, Poet of the Jewish People
               Lazarus, Emma
 Arthur James 1997   ISBN: 0853053693
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 A selection of the poetry and prose of Emma Lazarus with an introduction and commentary by Emma Klein.
                     
 POETS,JUDAICA,JEWISH WRITERS,STATUE OF LIBERTY       Book #7555
 
US$9.00
    


               Christina Rossetti
               Marsh, Jan (compiler)
 Phoenix 2002   ISBN: 0753814072
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Silk bookribbon sewn in. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Jan Marsh, a leading authority on the Pre-Raphaelites, has written acclaimed biographies of both Christina and
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
                     
 VERSE,POETS,PRE-RAPHAELITES       Book #7517,7518
 
US$12.00
    


               The Complete Poems
               Poe, Edgar Allan
 Barnes & Noble Second Printing 1994   ISBN: 1566194407
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Full cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 The Complete Poems is a testament to the strange genius of one of America’s most original men of letters”
                     
 AMERICAN POETRY,AMERICAN POETS,AMERICAN LITERATURE       Book #7561
 
US$12.00
     
         

               Victorian Sappho

               Prins, Yopie

Princeton University Press 1999                                 ISBN  0691059195
Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the
 original woman poet, singing at the origins of Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure
 through reconstructions of  the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Illustrated.

GREEK POETRY,ANCIENT GREECE,CLASSICAL LITERATURE,
LITERARY STUDIES,VICTORIAN ENGLAND,LESBOS  
                                   Book# 6938
US$14.00



               Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg
               Sandburg, Carl
 Barnes & Noble Second Printing 1994   ISBN: 1566192641
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Full cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Nearly one hundred of his best and most representative poems have been selected for this volume.
                     
 AMERICAN POETRY,AMERICAN POETS,AMERICAN LITERATURE,CHICAGO       Book #7560
 
US$12.00
    


              The Civil War Poems
              Whitman, Walt
 Barnes & Noble 1994 First Edition 1994   ISBN: 1566190363
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Full cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 The Civil War Poems collects some of the finest work by the man generally considered to be the father of American poetry and one
 of the innovative voices in the history of literature.
                     
 AMERICAN POETRY,AMERICAN POETS,AMERICAN LITERATURE,CIVIL WAR       Book #7559
 
US$12.00
     


               One Hundred and One Classic Love Poems
               Whittier, Sara L. (compiler)
 Contemporary Books   ISBN: 0809299852
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Classic love poetry of the ages.
                     
 VERSE,LOVE POETRY,ROMANCE       Book #7534
 
US$10.00