Sonnets

Subtitle: A Literary Quiz Book Author: James Walton Publisher: Faber & Faber (2008) ISBN-10: 0571239374 ISBN-13: 9780571239375 Condition: Very Good. General wear to DJ with some light creasing, scratching and a few small closed tears. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 293 Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm +++ by James Walton +++ With questions ranging from the deliciously unexpected (Who's the only person in literary history both to have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and to have played a girlfriend of Ken Barlow's in "Coronation Street"?) to the reassuringly canonical (Dickens's fourth novel was the first he'd published not to have the main character's name in the title. What was it?), this fabulous compendium of literary knowledge is the perfect gift for all book lovers. With ten separate quizzes, each containing a variety of rounds, and subjects that range from literary feuds to inadvertant double entendres in classic literature, Sonnets, Bonnets & Bennetts takes you from Charles Dickens to Jilly Cooper and back again. It also provides plenty of extra and often astounding information in the answers. Use it to host or play your own quizzes or read it cover to cover to impress your friends and family with your literary knowledge.

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Hard cover, no dust jacket.  The book is in very good condition, with some foxing, especially to the endpapers and page edges.  There is a gift inscription on the fep.    

Author(s): William Shakespeare  Title:      The Sonnets of William Shakespeare  ISBN: none  Publisher/place: The Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon  [No further bibliographic information is given in the book, although internet searches show that at least two printings were done, one in the 1930s and the other in the 1970s.  ]  Binding: hardcover Dustjacket: none - missing  Number of pages: no page numbers, sonnets are individually numbered, with a first line index at the end  Weight: 254g  Condition:   Good  Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.    

  Author(s): William Shakespeare  Title:      The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare  ISBN: 1 85326 416 4  Publisher:  Wordsworth editions  This Edition: Wordsworth edition of 1994  Place Of Publication: Great Britain Binding: paperback Number of pages: 197  Weight: 143g  Condition:   Very good   

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove's reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum. She sets the moving love story of Thomas and Beulah against the backdrop of war, industrialisation and the civil right struggles. The multifaceted gems of Grace Notes, the reinvention of Greek myth in the sonnets of Mother Love, the troubling rapids of recent history in On the Bus with Rosa Parks and the homage to America's kaleidoscopic cultural heritage in American Smooth all celebrate Dove's mastery of narrative context with lyrical finesse. Features Summary Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume. Author Rita Dove Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc Release date 20160507 Pages 432 ISBN 0-393-28594-4 ISBN 13 978-0-393-28594-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days A winner of the Minnesota Book Award in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, Barton Sutter's latest collection details life on the Canadian border, presents portraits of northern plants and animals, rejoices in marriage, and traces the ancient ways of Siberian reindeer herders. The late Bill Holm called it "unlike anything Sutter (or anyone else) has done before." Sutter's poetry reminds us that other cultures have survived for millennia by living closer to the ground. Born in 1949, Barton Sutter was raised in Minnesota and Iowa. He retired from the University of Wisconsin--Superior in 2011 and now lives in Duluth, Minnesota. Features Summary Three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Sutter makes ballads, sonnets, and free verse sing with a Midwestern accent. Author Barton Sutter Publisher B O a Editions, Limited Release date 20120410 Pages 120 ISBN 1-934414-84-0 ISBN 13 978-1-934414-84-2

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days In this sharply innovative collection, renowned poet Fred Chappell layers words and images to create a new and dramatic poetic form -- the poem-within-a-poem. Like the shadow box in the volume's title, each piece consists of an inner world contained, framed, supported by an outer -- the two interdependent, sometimes supplementary, often contrary. For example, the grim but gorgeous "The Caretakers" is a landscape that reveals another image inside it. Chappell also introduces sonnets in which the sestet nests within the octet. Play serves as an important component, but the poems do not depend upon gamesmanship or verbal strategems. Instead, they delicately or wittily trace human feelings, respond somberly to the news of the world, and rejoice in humankind's plentiful variety of attitudes and beliefs. Just as an x-ray can show the inner structure of a physical object, so the techniques in Shadow Box display the internal energies of the separate works. With this new form -- the "enclosed" or "embedded" or "inlaid" poem -- Chappell broadens the expressive possibilities of formal poetry, intrigues the imagination in an entirely new way, and offers surprise and revelation in sudden flashes. At once revolutionary and traditional, Shadow Box contains an Aladdin's trove of surprises. Features Summary The two-for-the-price-of-one poems in Shadow Boxpoems enclosed, or embedded, or inlaid within poems--comprise a new and dramatic verse form by one of Americas most respected poets... Author Fred Chappell Publisher Louisiana State University Press Release date 20090701 Pages 81 ISBN 0-8071-3453-8 ISBN 13 978-0-8071-3453-5