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Brotherton Collection1951
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Bridgen, John William80
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Staying alive : real poems for unreal times

Astley, Neil

2003

Body and soul -- Roads -- Dead or alive -- Bittersweet -- Growing up -- Man and beast -- In and out of love -- My people -- War and peace -- Disappearing acts -- Me, the earth, the universe -- The art...

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English translations from ancient and modern poems (v.1)

1810

Vol.1. Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal. Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's art of poetry. Francis's Horace. -- vol.2. Rowe's Lucan. Grainger's Tibullus. Fawkes's Theocritu...

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English translations from ancient and modern poems (v.2)

1810

Vol.1. Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal. Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's art of poetry. Francis's Horace. -- vol.2. Rowe's Lucan. Grainger's Tibullus. Fawkes's Theocritu...

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English translations from ancient and modern poems (v.3)

1810

Vol.1. Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal. Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's art of poetry. Francis's Horace. -- vol.2. Rowe's Lucan. Grainger's Tibullus. Fawkes's Theocritu...

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This modern poetry

Deutsch, Babette (1895-1982); Bridgen, John William

1936

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The lords of limit : essays on literature and ideas

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1984

Series statement from jacket. Includes index.

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The personal principle : studies in modern poetry

Savage, D S (1917-)

1944

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Language as gesture : essays in poetry

Blackmur, R P (1904-1965)

[1952]

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