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1	Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot more books like this by Professor T S Eliot (Adapted by), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) add to wishlist Eliot was an influential critic; his criticism illuminated both the work of his literary predecessors and his own poetic aims. He fervently believed that it is essential for poets to reunite the two strands of human experience--rationality and emotion--which had, he felt, been dissociated in English poetry since the time of Donne and other 17th ... see all copies from $2.76! new only from $6.52! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose more books like this by Wallace Stevens, Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Richard Sieburth (Editor) add to wishlist Wallace Stevens' unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called the "essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance. Now, for the first time, the works of America's supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative volume. see all copies from $27.91! new only from $27.91! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Lit Guide to the Bible P more books like this by Mr. Robert Alter (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) add to wishlist Rediscover the incmparable literary richness and strength of the Bible. An International team of renowned scholars offers and book-by-book guide through the Old Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $17.99! \| SVS
4	The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode add to wishlist Frank Kermode has long held a distinctive place among modern critics. He brings to the study of literature a fine and fresh critical intelligence that is always richly suggestive, never modish. He offers here an inquiry--elegant in conception and style--into the art of interpretation. His subject quite simply is meanings; how they are revealed and ... see all copies from $6.89! new only from $23.98! \| signed copies \| SVS
5	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.25! new only from $60.80! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Harmonium more books like this by Wallace Stevens add to wishlist Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the new titles within a single embracing cover ... see all copies from $12.10! new only from $12.10! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Shakespeare's language more books like this by Frank Kermode add to wishlist The distinguished and prolific author of this critical work has a lifetime's worth of experience studying and teaching the plays and poems of Shakespeare. Here he provides an historical discussion of the development of the language in the plays, arguing that it must have seemed near-miraculous even at the time the plays were first staged. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Oxford Book of Letters more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Anita Kermode (Editor) add to wishlist More than 300 letters in English spanning three centuries chronicle the lives and thoughts of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx. Each letter is set in context and annotated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode add to wishlist A pioneering attempt to relate the theory of literary fiction to a more general theory of fiction, using fictions of apocalypse as a model. This pioneering exploration of the relationship of fiction to age-old conceptions of chaos and crisis offers many new insights into some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
10	Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002 more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode add to wishlist Celebrated English critic Frank Kermode collects many of his essays, which cover such diverse topics as the Bible, opera, Joyce, modern dance, and, of course, Shakespeare, on whom he is a noted authority. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| first editions
11 view cover	Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel more books like this by R Alan Culpepper, Sir Frank Kermode (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $13.57! new only from $18.67! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	First Woman in Republic-PB more books like this by Carolyn L Karcher, Carolyn L Karcher, Donald E Pease (Editor) add to wishlist For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," she pioneered almost every ... see all copies from $3.68! new only from $3.68!
13 view cover	The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode add to wishlist Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon. see all copies from $2.68! new only from $14.88! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Literary Guide to the Bible more books like this by Robert Alter, Frank Kermode add to wishlist This text examines the Bible as a work of literature which incorporates stories, poems, proverbs and prophecies. The book comprises over 40 essays, including book-by-book discussions, introductions to the Old and New Testaments, and discussions of various aspects of biblical literature. see all copies from $4.48! first editions
15 view cover	The Age of Shakespeare more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode add to wishlist Noted critic Frank Kermode puts Shakespeare squarely into the world he inhabited, and summarizes what we know of it. His overview covers the Protestant Reformation and the succession of Elizabeth I to the throne of England, the vexing question of Shakespeare's own religious views, the theatrical world in Elizabethan England, the way the English ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Not Entitled: A Memoir more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode add to wishlist A memoir from one of the premier critics of English literature, in which he describes not only the details of his life, but his love for books and the connection between life and letters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume VI: Modern British Literature more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Professor John Hollander (Editor) add to wishlist This volume includes Shaw's St. Joan, twenty poems by Hardy, thirty by Yeats, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Lawrence's The Prussian Officer, the complete St. Mawr, Pornography and Obscenity, and eleven poems. It also features Joyce's The Dead, excerpts from The Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake, and works by T. S. Eliot, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $57.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Two-Volume Edition Volume I: The Middle Ages Through the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Professor John Hollander (Editor), J B Trapp (Editor) add to wishlist In one volume. This collection, published in six individual volumes or in this two-volume edition, presents the finest English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, with introductory matter and extensive annotation by six of the foremost critics and scholars writing today. see all copies from $3.72! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 to the Present more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode, Professor John Hollander, Professor Harold Bloom add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $70.30! \| SVS
20 view cover	Essays on Conrad more books like this by Ian P Watt, Sir Frank Kermode (Foreword by) add to wishlist Ian Watt (1917-1999) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. The Rise of the Novel (1957) is still the landmark account of the way in which realist fiction developed in the eighteenth century and Watt's work on Conrad has been enormously influential. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979) was to have been ... see all copies from $8.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories more books like this by Henry James, Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) add to wishlist The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James's writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, "The Figure and the Carpet" is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre that demands the reader's undivided love and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	History and Value more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode add to wishlist Frank Kermode returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how urgent and powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. The general questions suggested by the title are answered first by a study of bourgeois left wing literature in the 1930s - including a case study of a forgotten novel of ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $37.39! \| SVS
23 view cover	Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode, Mr. Robert Alter (Editor) add to wishlist The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. "Pleasure and Change" contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. In essays that were originally delivered as "Tanner Lectures" at Berkeley in November of 2001, Kermode reinterprets the ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.17! \| SVS
24 view cover	A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers more books like this by Peter Parker (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) add to wishlist Curious about the lives of Auden, Tennessee Williams, Hemingway, or Samuel Beckett? Need to know when James Baldwin published Notes of a Native Son? A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers provides the answers. More than 1,000 biographical entries profile novelists, short-story writers, poets, and playwrights from the United States, Canada, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.49! \| first editions
25 view cover	A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel more books like this by Peter Parker, Frank Kermode (Editor) add to wishlist Wide-ranging and authoritative, A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel is a unique and invaluable guide to modern fiction written in English. Arranged chronologically from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim to E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, it contains detailed accounts of some 750 novels from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.25! \| first editions

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