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This our advanced course where previous experience from the beginners or intermediate course is required.
Virtually unknown in her lifetime, the poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) is now recognised as a major literary achievement. Unique in style, obsessive in content, these short and vivid lyrics together form what is perhaps the greatest body of religious verse in modern times.
Now available in a unique hand bound version.
James Joyce, though better known as a novelist, was also an accomplished poet. Chamber Music, his debut collection, fused the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of playful irony and has inspired composers as diverse as Samuel Barber, Luciano Berio and Syd Barrett. His second collection, Pomes Penyeach, written between 1904 and 1924 sounds intimately autobiographical notes of passion and betrayal that resonate through the rest of his work. Other poems include the well-known ‘Ecce Puer’, written for his newborn grandson, and his fierce satires, ‘The Holy Office’ and ‘Gas from a Burner’.
Joyce’s only play, Exiles, was written in 1914-15. Influenced by Ibsen, whom Joyce greatly admired, it tells the story of writer Richard Rowan, and his partner Bertha, who must live in defiance of social convention in Dublin or return to exile in Rome. At the same time, it is a richly nuanced drama involving two love triangles and exploring Joycean themes of human freedom and dignity, sexual jealousy and guilt, love and friendship. Exiles is also a portrait of the artist, drawing on Joyce’s own complicated relationships – with Nora Barnacle, and with Ireland itself, which he was never to visit again – at a time when he was just embarking on his greatest novel, Ulysses.
Now available in a unique hand bound version.
Textblock: from an existing hard back publication. New spine lining and hand sewn on endbands. New marbled endpapers with green leather hinges.
Binding: cover made of archival mill board and spine board with four raised bands. Cover in green goat leather and Italian marbled paper.
Often described as the twentieth century’s greatest novel, Ulysses, first published in 1922 and modelled on Homer’s Odyssey, is an account of one day in the life of Dublin, focusing on the humble Leopold Bloom and his sensuous wife, Molly. An earthy story, a virtuoso technical display and a literary revolution all rolled into one, Ulysses is one of the few books everyone has to read.
Textblock: from an existing hard back publication (ISBN 978-0-571-32174-2). New spine lining and stitched on blue-white endbands. Blue coloured upper edge. New marbled endpapers with blue leather hinges.
Binding: mill cover boards and spine board with five raised bands. Cover in blue Nigerian goat skin and marbled paper
Item weight: 650 g
Item dimensions: 230 x 155 x 35 mm
A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free State’s first senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that Ireland has yet produced. The present selection includes poems from every period of his life, dealing with all the topics closest to his hear: love, death, old age, ambition, the poet’s craft, and of course the history and destiny of Ireland.
Now available in a unique hand bound version.
Textblock: from an existing hard back publication. New spine lining and stuck on brown leather endbands and red page marker. New marbled endpapers with grey leather hinges.
Binding: mill cover boards and spine board with five raised bands. Cover in brown sheepskin and marbled paper.
Textblock: from an existing hard back publication. New spine lining and hand sewn on endbands. New marbled endpapers with green leather hinges.
Binding: cover made of archival mill board and spine board with four raised bands. Cover in red goat eather and Italian marbled paper.