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9780571328796 | Faber & Faber, August 9, 2016, cover price $14.95
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9780571331581 | Gardners Books, March 3, 2016, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: After a lifetime of reading books on chivalry, Don Quixote decides to embark on a quest of his own.
Product Description: An antidote to the theory that history is about the biographies of great men, this book explores past lives lived on the margins. Distinguished poet and former Oxford Professor of Poetry James Fenton resurrects the hidden world of out-of-the-way individuals - from pirates to priests -whose lives were chronicled in biographical collections dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but were then forgotten...read more
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9781907903281 | Gardners Books, December 1, 2013, cover price $24.85 | About this edition: An antidote to the theory that history is about the biographies of great men, this book explores past lives lived on the margins.
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9781781550472, titled "The Forgotten Army: A Burma Soldier's Story in Letters, Photographs, and Sketches" | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, September 11, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In 1943-45, while the European War against Hitler dominated public interest in Britain, in the Far East a struggle of monumental importance, pushing men to the very limits of endurance, raged on in the sweltering jungles of Burma.
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9780548371657 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2007, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
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9781108039192 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 2, 2011), cover price $49.99
9780548314777 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2007, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
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9780571273829 | Gardners Books, September 22, 2011, cover price $25.25 | About this edition: Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, "Terminal Moraine", to the dramatic and political monologues of "The Memory of War" and "Children in Exile", through to the unforgettable love poems of "Out of Danger" and his most recent work: poems is an essential selection by, as Stephen Spender put it, 'a brilliant poet of technical virtuosity'.
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9780571275526 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2011, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
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9780307592743 | Everymans Library, April 6, 2010, cover price $28.00
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9780374260651 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 17, 2006, cover price $15.00
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9781439580202 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 26, 2009), cover price $25.00
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9780571218158 | Faber & Faber, February 7, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Contains a mix of classics and popular favourites, as well as blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics and Broadway songs.
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9781903973202 | Royal Academy of Arts, May 31, 2006, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This landmark publication is a meticulously researched and highly illustrated portrait of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, a unique institution that is both museum and art school, and is run entirely by and for artists.
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9781862077836 | New edition (Granta Books, August 1, 2005), cover price $16.05 | About this edition: Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms - travel essay, narrative history, autobiography - but at its finest it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know.
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9781840024425 | Oberon Books Ltd, July 15, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A romantic tragedy from the great 17th-century Spanish playwright.
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9780374160296 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2002, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Shows both novice and expert gardeners alike how to think their way to creating a visually stunning garden with one hundred plants grown from seed, including clinging vines, colorful flowers, and tropical species.
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9780374528775 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 20, 2005), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: By selecting one hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed, including clinging vines, colorful flowers, and tropical species, the author shows both novice and expert gardeners alike how to think their way to creating a visually stunning garden.
Product Description: A wise, absorbing, and surprising introduction to poetry written in English, from one of England's leading poetsJames Fenton is that rare scholar "not ashamed to admit that he mostly reads for pleasure" (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books)...read more
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9780756776237, titled "Introduction To English Poetry" | Diane Pub Co, April 2, 2004, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A wise, absorbing, and surprising introduction to poetry written in English, from one of England's leading poetsJames Fenton is that rare scholar "not ashamed to admit that he mostly reads for pleasure" (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books).
9780374104641 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 2003, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An introduction to poetry makes use of prisoner's work songs, Broadway show tunes, and the cries of street vendors to introduce readers to the rhythms of poetry.
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9780374528898 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An insightful, engaging introduction to poetry written by one of Englands leading poets makes use of prisoner work songs, Broadway show tunes, and the cries of street vendors to introduce readers to the rhythms of poetry.
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9781854441676 | Ashmolean Museum, December 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Few personal possessions have the resonance of finger rings, whether they serve as symbols of marriage, office, status or, in some cases, as token of hidden political or religious beliefs.
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9781854441669 | Ashmolean Museum, December 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this overview are over 150 signet rings, magic rings, rings commemorating love/marriage, etc.
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9780571211470 | Faber & Faber, July 1, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Three LibrettiâRanging In Setting From Ancient Jerusalem To Pre-Apocalyptic LondonâFrom An Acclaimed PoetThis volume of libretti marks new workâand new terrainâfor James Fenton.
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9780571212477 | Faber & Faber, July 1, 2003, cover price $14.00
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9780199261390 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 20, 2003, cover price $45.20 | About this edition: Why should a poet feel the need to be original?
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9780374228453 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In this collection of Oxford lectures, devout literary critic James Fenton makes sense of the last century in poetry and explores its antecedents and legacies, covering Philip Larkin's laments for the British Empire, Heaney's rebellion against it, Robert Frost's celebrations of American conquest, and much more.
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9780374528485 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2002, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Sharp-eyed critiques and appreciations of the essential poets of our time.
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9780413639707 | Methuen Pub Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This classic collection contains some of the best and funniest pieces of Michael Frayn's work selected and introduced by James Fenton.
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9780374185053 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Culled from the The New York Review of Books, a collection of essays by a poetry professor at Oxford University, complemented by black-and-white illustrations, offers unusual approaches to the byways of art history.
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9780226241470 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: James Fenton, one of England's most gifted poets, has in recent years been looking closely at works of art and writing incisively and inventively about them and their creators.
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9781852244705 | Dufour Editions, May 1, 1999, cover price $27.95
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9780374228316 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Writing on such subjects as love, danger, and political violence, a respected poet presents his first collection of poems in ten years, offering precise and honest observations, delightful word play, and daring insights.
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9780374524371 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1995), cover price $12.00
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