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Housman's Poems (Hardcover): John Bayley Housman's Poems (Hardcover)
John Bayley
R3,082 Discovery Miles 30 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although Housman's three collections of poems, the third published posthumously, have remained popular, they have not received much serious critical attention. John Bayley makes good the omission in this thorough and comprehensive reappraisal of the whole oeuvre, placing Housman's achievement in the context of the poetry of his own time and of more recent European and American poetry. Close analysis and comparison with other poets - Hardy, Frost, Edward Thomas, Larkin, and Paul Celan - prove illuminating in relation to a poet who has usually been considered something of an odd man out, and even an anachronism in the modern era. Professor Bayley explores and explains the continuing appeal of the poet to present-day readers, and the nature of the craftsmanship and psychology which lie behind its deceptive simplicities. The book will be a valuable introduction to Housman's achievement for the specialist and the poetry-lover alike.

Prophecies of Christ and Christian Times, Selected from the Old and New Testament, by a Layman Sir J. Bayley Ed. by H. Clissold... Prophecies of Christ and Christian Times, Selected from the Old and New Testament, by a Layman Sir J. Bayley Ed. by H. Clissold (Paperback)
Sir John Bayley Clissold
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Summary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory Notes (Hardcover): John Bayley A Summary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory Notes (Hardcover)
John Bayley
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Catalogue of a Series of Original Designs, Cartoons, and Drawings, by the Great Masters of the Italian Schools of Art... Catalogue of a Series of Original Designs, Cartoons, and Drawings, by the Great Masters of the Italian Schools of Art (Hardcover)
John Bayley
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shakespeare and Tragedy (Paperback): John Bayley Shakespeare and Tragedy (Paperback)
John Bayley
R1,006 Discovery Miles 10 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Anna Karenina (Hardcover, Reissue): Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (Hardcover, Reissue)
Leo Tolstoy; Introduction by John Bayley
R615 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest nov el in any language '

Shakespeare and Tragedy (Hardcover): John Bayley Shakespeare and Tragedy (Hardcover)
John Bayley
R3,430 Discovery Miles 34 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue. In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeare's most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context. For example, in Lear the dramatis personae act in the dramatic world of tragedy which demands universality and high rhetoric of them. Yet they are human and have their being in the prosaic world of domesticity and plain speaking. The inevitable intrusion of the human world into the world of tragedy creates the play's powerful off-key effects. Similarly, the existential crisis in Macbeth can be understood in terms of the tension between accomplished action and the free-ranging domain of consciousness. What is the relation between being and acting? How does an audience become intimate with a protagonist who is alienated from his own play? What did Shakespeare add to the form and traditions of tragedy? Do his masterpieces in the genre disturb and transform it in unexpected ways? These are the issues raised by this lucid and imaginative study. Professor Bayley's highly original rethinking of the problems will be a challenge to the Shakespearean scholar as well as an illumination to the general reader.

The Monstrous Debt - Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-century Literature (Hardcover): Damian Walford Davies,... The Monstrous Debt - Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-century Literature (Hardcover)
Damian Walford Davies, Richard Marggraf Turley; John Bayley, John Beer, Hugh Haughton, …
R1,545 Discovery Miles 15 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The authors in this collection join an animated debate on the persistence of Romanticism. Even as dominant twentieth-century cultural movements have contested Romantic ""myths"" of redemptive Nature, individualism, perfectibility, the transcendence of art, and the heart's affections, the Romantic legacy survives as a point of tension and of inspiration for modern writers. Rejecting the Bloomian notion of anxious revisionism, ""The Monstrous Debt"" argues that various kinds of influences, inheritances, and indebtedness exist between well-known twentieth-century authors and canonical Romantic writers. Among the questions asked by this volume are: How does Blake's graphic mythology submit to ""redemptive translations"" in the work of Dylan Thomas? How might Ted Hughes' strong readings of a ""snaky"" Coleridge illuminate the ""mercurial"" poetic identity of Sylvia Plath? How does Shelley ""sustain"" the work of W. B. Yeats and Elizabeth Bishop with supplies of ""imaginative oxygen""? In what ways does Keats enable Bob Dylan to embrace influence? How does Keats prove inadequate for Tony Harrison as he confronts contemporary violence? How does ""cockney"" Romanticism succeed in shocking John Betjeman's poetry out of kitsch into something new and strange? ""The Monstrous Debt"" seeks to broaden our sense of what ""influence"" is by defining the complex of relations that contribute to the making of the modern literary text. Scholars and students of the Romantic era will enjoy this informative volume.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Introduction by John Bayley (Hardcover): Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Introduction by John Bayley (Hardcover)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Introduction by John Bayley; Translated by H.T. Willetts
R609 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Introduction by John Bayley

The Iris Trilogy - Memoirs of Iris Murdoch (Hardcover): John Bayley The Iris Trilogy - Memoirs of Iris Murdoch (Hardcover)
John Bayley 1
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year, intense and unconventional but happy marriage, detailed in the classic bestselling memoir Iris. Despite Iris’ extramarital affairs with men and women throughout their long marriage - which John always suspected - their bond was unbreakable, and his memoir beautifully captures their child-like moments of bliss: walking in forests, swimming together in streams, and sharing hot cups of coffee on crisp mornings. These are touching but poignant stories with the knowledge that Iris and her grand intellect would eventually succumb to Alzheimer’s disease. John would care for her singlehandedly for five years, the last of which he writes about in Iris and the Friends that also describes her peaceful passing. Finally, he reflects on his bereavement and the void that is left when a soulmate departs in A Widower’s House. All three books are told by the person who knew Iris best, with gentle humour - at times unbearably moving - in his portrayal of a remarkable woman.

Kim - Introduction by John Bayley (Hardcover): Rudyard Kipling Kim - Introduction by John Bayley (Hardcover)
Rudyard Kipling; Introduction by John Bayley
R640 R584 Discovery Miles 5 840 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Introduction by John Bayley

The Complete Short Stories Volume 2 (Hardcover, New Ed): Leo Tolstoy The Complete Short Stories Volume 2 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Leo Tolstoy; Introduction by John Bayley
R645 R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The world-famous Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California, is a healing place where people come from all over the world to learn how to prevent and heal stress and disease through nutrition, meditation, and spirituality. Chopra's co-authors for this cookbook are David Simon, MD, Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Well Being; and Leanne Backer, Executive Chef of the Chopra Center. The Chopra Center Cookbook should transform the way we view food and eating, showing us how to prepare delicious, nutritious meals that lead to integration of body, mind, and spirit while reversing the aging process.

Anna Karenina - Introduction by John Bayley (Hardcover): Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina - Introduction by John Bayley (Hardcover)
Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Louise Maude, Alymer Maude; Introduction by John Bayley
R675 R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Save R118 (17%) Out of stock

Introduction by John Bayley

Doctor Zhivago - Introdcution by John Bayley (Hardcover, Reissue): Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago - Introdcution by John Bayley (Hardcover, Reissue)
Boris Pasternak; Translated by Max Hayward, Manya Harari; Introduction by John Bayley
R762 R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Save R59 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Introduction by John Bayley

An Essay on Hardy (Paperback, Revised): John Bayley An Essay on Hardy (Paperback, Revised)
John Bayley
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This 1981 book suggests an insightful approach to Hardy as a poet and novelist. With the novels in particular it concentrates not so much on ideas and attitudes as on the texture of the writing, and on the crucial importance in it between one kind of exposition and another. John Bayley starts by establishing a difference between Hardy the private 'noticer' of things and people, and Hardy the professional author committed to interpreting these observations to his readers. The vital ingredients of eroticism and humour are analysed in detail, as are the unusual ways in which passiveness, 'pessimism', and anthropomorphism function in the poems and novels, and an insightful reading of Tess is put forward. Professor Bayley shows that the rewards of reading Hardy are greater than ever, although they are not necessarily those which the reader expects, or has been taught to look for.

Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary (Paperback, Revised): John Bayley Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary (Paperback, Revised)
John Bayley
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This digitally reprinted edition of Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary has the same content as the original 1971 edition. Professor Bayley, in this first critical assessment in English of the whole range of Pushkin's writing, examines his achievement in relation to Russian literature and the European tradition, analysing Pushkin's language in detail to illustrate how he obtains his literary effects.

Collected Shorter Fiction Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed): Leo Tolstoy Collected Shorter Fiction Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Leo Tolstoy; Introduction by John Oliver Bayley; Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude; Introduction by John Bayley
R633 R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The world-famous Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California, is a healing place where people come from all over the world to learn how to prevent and heal stress and disease through nutrition, meditation, and spirituality. Chopra's co-authors for this cookbook are David Simon, MD, Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Well Being; and Leanne Backer, Executive Chef of the Chopra Center. The Chopra Center Cookbook should transform the way we view food and eating, showing us how to prepare delicious, nutritious meals that lead to integration of body, mind, and spirit while reversing the aging process.

Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback, Reissue): A Bradley, John Bayley Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback, Reissue)
A Bradley, John Bayley
R400 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.

Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, Bradley is one of the most liberating in the line of distinguished Shakespeare critics. His acute yet undogmatic and almost conversational critical method has—despite fluctuations in fashion—remained enduringly popular and influential. For, as John Bayley observes, these lectures give us a true and exhilarating sense of 'the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading us into a perspective of possibilities that stretch forward and back in time, and in our total awareness of things.'

Collected Shorter Fiction Boxed Set (2 Volumes) (Hardcover): Leo Tolstoy Collected Shorter Fiction Boxed Set (2 Volumes) (Hardcover)
Leo Tolstoy; Introduction by John Bayley
R1,722 R1,395 Discovery Miles 13 950 Save R327 (19%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy's enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter Fiction is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, husband and father, the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace. It also includes several short fables which point to his later preoccupation with the religious life. Volume 2 reveals how these spiritual intimations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces which equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man and Hadji Murad will recognize the brilliant younger novelist, now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness.

A Summary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory Notes (Paperback): John Bayley A Summary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory Notes (Paperback)
John Bayley
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Catalogue of a Series of Original Designs, Cartoons, and Drawings, by the Great Masters of the Italian Schools of Art... Catalogue of a Series of Original Designs, Cartoons, and Drawings, by the Great Masters of the Italian Schools of Art (Paperback)
John Bayley
R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Treatise on the Elements of Algebra (Hardcover): John Bayley A Treatise on the Elements of Algebra (Hardcover)
John Bayley
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confessions of a Converted Infidel - With Lights and Shades of Itinerant Life, and Miscellaneous Sketches (Hardcover): John... Confessions of a Converted Infidel - With Lights and Shades of Itinerant Life, and Miscellaneous Sketches (Hardcover)
John Bayley
R1,086 Discovery Miles 10 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Catalogue of a Series of Original Designs, Cartoons and Drawings by the Great Masters of the Italian Schools of Art - Living... Catalogue of a Series of Original Designs, Cartoons and Drawings by the Great Masters of the Italian Schools of Art - Living Between the Period of Its Renaissance in the Thirteenth Century and the Commencement of Its Decadence About the Middle of the Sixte (Hardcover)
John Bayley
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Treatise On the Elements of Algebra - Designed for the Use of Eton School (Hardcover): John Bayley A Treatise On the Elements of Algebra - Designed for the Use of Eton School (Hardcover)
John Bayley
R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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