A. N. Wilson's sympathetic, readable and brilliantly analytical narrative places John Milton, the greatest poet of the seventeenth century, in the context of his political and religious ideas. N.B. Reading crease to spine. 278pp.
Pimlico, 2002, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0712668187

Inventory #23747

Price: £ 6.00 GBP ($ 7.92 approx. - € 6.96 approx.)

Head and tail of d/j spine very slightly bumped. 621pp.
The Shoe String Press, 1992, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Heavy Item Postage Quote. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0208022023

Inventory #21458

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 19.80 approx. - € 17.40 approx.)

The bibliography and Peck's annotations together form an index to Chaucer's intellectual and literary influences.An indispensable tool for Chaucerian scholars.402pp.
University of Toronto, 1988, Decorative Cloth, Book Condition: Like New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0802024939

Inventory #21886

Price: £ 8.50 GBP ($ 11.22 approx. - € 9.86 approx.)

N.B. Previous owners bookplate to front paste down. Corners and head and tail of D/J spine rubbed. Two small tear to top right corner of rear D/J with a small amount of loss. 40pp.
Princeton University Press, 1948, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #24190

Price: £ 20.00 GBP ($ 26.40 approx. - € 23.20 approx.)

This book examines literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism by analysing the role of Aristotelian principles, primarily the notion of formal affectivism, in the critical writings of these three modernists who have invariably been thought to uphold incompatible aesthetic beliefs: where as Eliot saw himself as a classicist modernist, Stevens and Woolf shared a marked anti-classicist stance. Despite their initially incompatible attitudes to literary history and criticism, this study discloses their convergence on the Aristotelian notion of formal affectivism, demonstrated through specific conceptual shifts. The main feature of the book is its originality of approach, which seeks a 'diachronic' solution to a 'synchronic' problem - the debate about the Modern, reflected in the claims and counter claims made by the modernists themselves and by subsequent literary critics and theorists. This methodology was largely dictated by the nature of the subject: the adversarial critical orientation of three modernists, who have never been studied as a group before, and the attempt to reconcile their differences by reconfiguring them in terms of the Aristotelian critical tradition. The author demonstrates conclusively how Eliot incorporated central Aristotelian dramatic principles into his view of literary history and criticism, and, similarly, how both Stevens and Woolf, through historically determined conceptual shifts, endorse and use formal affectivism and dramatic criteria, which, as may be expected, they almost never refer back to Aristotle or to his foremost modernist defender, Eliot. 152pp.
Sussex Academic Press, 2008, Cloth, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9781845191719

Inventory #21749

Price: £ 35.00 GBP ($ 46.20 approx. - € 40.60 approx.)