{"title":"Seamus Perry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"coleridge-s-notebooks-book-seamus-perry-9780198712022","title":"Coleridge's Notebooks","description":"Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literature and imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer, philosopher, theologian, psychologist and distinguished speaker. Throughout his life, he confided his thoughts and emotions to his notebooks, where we can still see his speculations and observations taking shape. This edition presents a selection from this unique work, newly presented, with notes and commentary, for the student as well as the general reader.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49507856318737,"sku":"GOR002562546","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50046554341649,"sku":"CIN0198712022VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52151927800081,"sku":"NLS9780198712022","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52734508171537,"sku":"NIN9780198712022","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53122845573393,"sku":"GOR013456595","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0198712022.jpg?v=1772275893"},{"product_id":"samuel-taylor-coleridge-book-seamus-perry-9780712347877","title":"Samuel Taylor Coleridge","description":"Few writers in English can claim so diverse a genius as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Author of some of the best known poems in the language and Wordsworth's collaborator in \"Lyrical Ballads\", he was also a profound critic, a philosopher, a political commentator, a psychologist, a nature writer, an autobiographer, and the greatest talker of his age. Illustrated throughout with contemporary images, this book follows him from childhood in Devon and schooldays in London, to his days in the Lake District and Malta, and through to his final years in Highgate, bringing to life one of the most extraordinary figures of the Romantic age.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49549222674705,"sku":"GOR005365147","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49634564636945,"sku":"GOR004697797","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0712347879.jpg?v=1751075088"},{"product_id":"samuel-taylor-coleridge-book-seamus-perry-9780195218152","title":"Samuel Taylor Coleridge","description":"The story of one of the important Romantic poets, \u003cem\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/em\u003e follows the life of Samuel Coleridge from his days as a poverty-stricken scholarship student to the publication of the opus \u003cem\u003eBiographia Literaria\u003c\/em\u003e. Seamus Perry looks at Coleridges friendship with Robert Southey; his fortuitous meeting with William Wordsworth and their work on \u003cem\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/em\u003e, which sparked the Romantic movement; and his numerous careers, which included governmental secretary and sometimes spy (in Malta), journalist in London, and writer of plays, poetry, philosophy, literary criticism, political analysis, theology, and translations. \u003cem\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge \u003c\/em\u003e includes drawings, paintings, and original manuscripts that illustrate this brilliant writers prolific and troubled life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49555137134865,"sku":"GOR005734775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346264854801,"sku":"CIN0195218159G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0195218159.jpg?v=1751227453"},{"product_id":"connell-guide-to-t-s-eliot-s-the-waste-land-book-seamus-perry-9781907776274","title":"The Connell Guide To T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land","description":"The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is not far from a century old, and it has still not been surpassed as the most famous of all modern poems. In many ways, it continues to define what we mean by modern whenever we begin to speak about modern verse. At the same time, as Ted Hughes once observed, it is also genuinely popular, and not just among the cogniscenti or the degree-bearing. I remember when I taught fourteen-year-old boys in a secondary modern school, Hughes once said, of all the poetry I introduced them to, their favourite was The Waste Land. Not for nothing was it included, in its entirety, in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973), edited by Philip Larkin, a poet not known otherwise for his hospitality to modernism. The poem's appeal is intellectual, certainly, but also visceral. It fulfils in miniature the demands that Eliot made of the great poet at large: abundance, variety, and complete competence - the first of those criteria of greatness all the more surprising, and moving, to find accomplished in a poem that has its starting place in so barren a human territory. The poetry is modern in a wholly self-conscious way, but the modernity of Eliot's poem stems in large part from a strikingly powerful awareness of what's past. In this book, the Oxford scholar Seamus Perry points out some of the fruits of that acute historical awareness - and shares his own admiration of, and pleasure in, the extraordinary voicings and counter-voicings of this perpetually great work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49573033541905,"sku":"GOR007080194","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49611889803537,"sku":"GOR011199438","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735684292881,"sku":"NGR9781907776274","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50278026707217,"sku":"GOR008866367","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50929996366097,"sku":"CIN1907776273VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1907776273.jpg?v=1750997170"},{"product_id":"rollercoasters-romantics-to-the-present-day-an-anthology-of-poetry-book-seamus-perry-9780198396277","title":"Rollercoasters: Romantics to the Present Day: An Anthology of Poetry","description":"An inspiring collection of poetry from the Romantics period to present day, collated by trusted editors in literature, Seamus Perry and David Womersley. Including powerful themes of Youth and Age, Love and relationships, War and conflict and many more, this collection is ideal for both a captivating read and for early preparation for GCSE English Language and Literature requirements.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49581723025681,"sku":"GOR013551539","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0198396279.jpg?v=1751323630"},{"product_id":"alfred-tennyson-book-seamus-perry-9780746309193","title":"Alfred Tennyson","description":"This title is a study of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, describing its complex fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and loss, and its doubts about its own artfulness.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49612748914961,"sku":"GOR013447193","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625486164241,"sku":"GOR002332775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52657553834257,"sku":"NLS9780746309193","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0746309198.jpg?v=1751168584"},{"product_id":"coleridge-and-the-uses-of-division-book-seamus-perry-9780198183976","title":"Coleridge and the Uses of Division","description":"Coleridge repeatedly announced the merits of unity, while experiencing the truth of division. A visionary drawn to the numinous, he was also a spontaneous connoisseur of the sensory life; a metaphysician inclined to idealism, his thought was permanently way-laid by a tenacious realism. Such double-mindedness frustrated his ambitions for system, and has often been criticised as a sort of incapacity; but the capability of entertaining equally necessary or valuable kinds of perception, which yet prove ultimately incompatible, might alternatively be thought a kind of virtue - even, perhaps, the secret of his paradoxical, self-defeating genius.   The study examines Coleridge's formative double-vision as it manifests itself in his profound self-analysis, his philosophy of mind, his reflections on love and ethics, his descriptions of imagination, and his literary criticism. The focus of many of these mixed feelings is the ambiguous figure of Wordsworth: his momentous and often troubled partnership with Coleridge is examined in detail. Throughout, close attention is paid to Coleridge the writer, the metaphor-maker and stylist, exhibited across the wide range of his oeuvre, in public and private works, prose and poetry. A coda offers a reading of The Ancient Mariner, tracing back the central threads of the study to Coleridges early and surprising masterpiece.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51304602140945,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51304603877649,"sku":"NIN9780198183976","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52125341942033,"sku":"NLS9780198183976","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0198183976.jpg?v=1750693981"},{"product_id":"matthew-arnold-book-seamus-perry-9780198904854","title":"Matthew Arnold","description":"This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)--the first of its kind for half a century. The anthology is a fresh presentation of one of the most important and influential writers and thinkers of the Victorian period. Arnold's many facets--as poet, educationalist, literary critic, cultural commentator, and religious controversialist--are represented; and the text is fully annotated, identifying the many authors with whom Arnold engaged, and the contemporary public events to which his work often responds. Many of the themes of Arnold's writing life are still pressing matters today. What is the true nature of education? What are the duties of the State towards its citizens? What are the proper limits to individual freedom within a liberal society? What is the future of religion in an age of increasing secularisation? And, besides these questions, his poetry is one of the greatest and most influential of all bodies of Victorian verse, giving voice to the anxieties of an epoch.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51650376106257,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51650376302865,"sku":"NIN9780198904854","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0198904851.jpg?v=1776765433"},{"product_id":"matthew-arnold-book-seamus-perry-9780199595563","title":"Matthew Arnold","description":"This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)--the first of its kind for half a century. The anthology is a fresh presentation of one of the most important and influential writers and thinkers of the Victorian period. Arnold's many facets--as poet, educationalist, literary critic, cultural commentator, and religious controversialist--are represented; and the text is fully annotated, identifying the many authors with whom Arnold engaged, and the contemporary public events to which his work often responds. Many of the themes of Arnold's writing life are still pressing matters today. What is the true nature of education? What are the duties of the State towards its citizens? What are the proper limits to individual freedom within a liberal society? What is the future of religion in an age of increasing secularisation? And, besides these questions, his poetry is one of the greatest and most influential of all bodies of Victorian verse, giving voice to the anxieties of an epoch.  Explanatory notes and commentary enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Arnold, and a Chronology.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52516200546577,"sku":"NLS9780199595563","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52775617003793,"sku":"NIN9780199595563","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780199595563.jpg?v=1760501443"},{"product_id":"stephen-wall-trollope-and-character-and-other-essays-on-victorian-literature-book-seamus-perry-9781783088171","title":"Stephen Wall, Trollope and Character and Other Essays on Victorian Literature","description":"Stephen Wall, ‘Trollope and Character’ and Other Essays on Victorian Literature gathers together the principal publications of the distinguished scholar-critic Stephen Wall. Widely regarded for his writings on the Victorian novel, Wall’s major writings about Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, including the full text of his book-length study Trollope and Character (1988) and a history of Dickens’s reception, are contained in this volume. Also included are Wall’s reflections on Jane Austen and George Eliot and on other aspects of nineteenthcentury fiction, as well as his influential essay on the ways in which English novels should be edited. Together, the essays communicate the mixture of learning, human sympathy, critical intelligence and dry wit that made Wall’s voice so distinctive and trusted.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52587694620945,"sku":"NLS9781783088171","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781783088171.jpg?v=1761056809"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-seamus-perry.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}