Poetry

Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was one of the remarkable literary successes of the early nineteenth century. First published in 1800, the poe...

Stanley Jackson's The Sassoons traces the remarkable history of the wealthy and influential Sassoon family, from their origins in Baghdad and the e...

An attractively bound, full tan leather binding of Scott's poetry. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott; Including Introduction and Notes. The "A...

This handsome tree-calf prize volume was awarded to Charles Thomson in 1886, while a pupil at Hutchesons' Boys' Grammar School, Glasgow, several ye...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for English Literature in 1891 and personally signed on the presentation label by Andrew ...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for Latin in 1890 and personally signed on the presentation label by George Gilbert Ramsa...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for Latin in 1893 and personally signed on the presentation label by George Gilbert Ramsa...

Short Studies on Great Subjects is one of James Anthony Froude's best-known collections of historical and literary essays, bringing together his re...

A collection of key, shorter works by seven of Scotland's greatest writers, including Alasdair Gray's newly commissioned survey of Scottish writing...

Volume I of the Sixth Series of Chambers's Journal, covering December 1897 to November 1898, marking the beginning of a new era for one of Britain'...

The Scots Magazine was Scotland's leading eighteenth-century periodical and remains one of the richest contemporary records of the political, socia...

Horace. Odes and Epodes; in the Original Latin and in English Translations Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Accompanie...

This substantial volume brings together many essays exploring the life, works and legacy of Robert Burns from literary, historical and internationa...

The Rubaiyat is one of the most celebrated works of Victorian literary translation. Although based upon the Persian quatrains traditionally attribu...

First published between 1723 and 1725, A Collection of Old Ballads was one of the earliest major printed anthologies devoted to English popular bal...

Composed around 29 BC, The Georgics is Virgil's celebrated four-book poem on agriculture, rural life, and mankind's relationship with the natural w...

Fleck is Alasdair Gray's verse adaptation of Goethe's Faust, presented as a dramatic script and illustrated throughout by the author. Revising and ...

Old Negatives; four verse sequences by Alasdair Gray.  SOLD A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo brings together three of the finest surviving works of Middle English literature in translatio...

D.H. Lawrence; The Failure and Triumph of Art by Eliseo Vivas is a substantial critical study of the work of D. H. Lawrence, examining the ten...

Robert Bloomfield was one of the most popular labouring-class poets of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, celebrated for his sympa...

James Thomson's The Seasons was one of the most celebrated and widely read poems of the eighteenth century, combining descriptive nature poetry wit...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the most influential poets and literary voices of the twentieth century, known for her intensely personal and p...

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James is an expansive and highly personal work of literary and cultural criticism, first published in 2007. Structured th...