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Oxford University Press Henry VI Part One The Oxford Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe Oxford ShakespeareGeneral Editor: Stanley WellsThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers- a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings- On-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language, and allusions- Detailed introduction considers the first performance in 1592 in relation to the 1623 folio, structure, theatrical history, and the role of women in the play- Illustrated with production photographs and related art- Full index to introduction and commentary- Durable sewn binding for lasting use''not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.'' ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the
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Oxford University Press Selected Poetry Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisA new selection of John Donne's verse, prepared by the editor of The Oxford Authors edition, with full notes and a useful introduction. John Donne is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre.
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Oxford University Press The Figaro Trilogy
Book SynopsisThe Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty MotherEighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D''Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? Not the impertinent valet of the operas of Mozart or Rossini, but both the spirit of resistance to oppression and a bourgeois individualist like his creator. The three plays in which he plots and schemes chronicle the slide of the ancien régime into revolution but also chart the growth of Beaumarchais'' humanitarianism. They are also exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the direction of French theatre for a hundred years. This lively new translation catches all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review'Coward's introduction is a small masterpiece, weaving information and interpretation into a compelling narrative in a way which makes it alone worth the modest price of the volume.' 'David Coward's translations cope admirably with Beaumarchais' wide range of tones and registers in three very different plays, and are as speakable as they are readable.' 'this excellent volume provides an admirable introduction for the English-speaking reader to Beaumarchais' greatest creation' * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsThe Barber of Seville ; The Marriage of Figaro ; The Guilty Mother
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Oxford University Press The Recognition of Sakuntala A Play In Seven Acts
Book SynopsisKING Yes. I shall release you -SAKUNTALA When?KING When? When, like a bee, I kiss the bud of your unbruised lip And flood my thirsting mouth with nectar.Kalidasa''s play about the love of King Dusyanta and Sakuntala, a hermitage girl, their separation by a curse, and eventual reunion, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in tone, in peformance The Recognition of Sakuntala aimed to produce an experience of aesthetic rapture in the audience, akin to certain types of mystical experience.The pioneering English translation of Sakuntala in 1789 caused a sensation among European composers and writers (including Goethe), and it continues to be performed around the world. This vibrant new verse translation includes the famous version of the story from the Mahabharata, a poetic and dramatic text in its own right and a likely source for Kalidasa. The introduction discusses the play in the aesthetic and cultural context of ancient India. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Oxford University Press The Satires
Book SynopsisJuvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have been admired and used by many English writers, including Ben Jonson, Dryden, and most notably, Dr Johnson, who described his writing as `a mixture of gaiety and statelines, of pointed sentences and declamatory grandeur''. Juvenal has been seen as a stern moralist and, more recently, as an extravagant wit, and is acclaimed for his vivid description of the scenes which aroused his anger. He coined the famous phrase designating people `eager and anxious for two things; bread and races'' (panem et circenses''). Niall Rudd''s translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal''s hexameters. William Barr''s Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review`scholarly and disciplined' Sunday Telegraph'The translation itself goes a long way towards catching J.'s mixture of rhetoric and wit. It is lively and taut ... translation is excellent, not only the best available in English but also good to read, no bad thing as most of its readers will be Latinless.' F. Jones, University of Liverpool, The Classical Review, Vol. XLII, 1992
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Oxford University Press The Romance of the Rose Oxford Worlds Classics
Book Synopsis`If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance... to be called, it is the Romance of the Rose, in which the whole art of love is contained''. Guillaume de Lorris''s own introduction to his allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair gives no indication of the eventual scale and scope of the work, which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun, who continued de Lorris''s work, it assumed vast proportions and embraced almost every aspect of medieval life, from predestination to the right way to deal with premature hair-loss. This new translation into modern English, based on the French edition by Félix Lecoy, is intended as much for the general reader as for students of French and English literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Oxford University Press Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris
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Oxford University Press The Major Works
Book SynopsisThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning''s poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to give the essence of his work and thinking.Browning''s work ranges from the beguiling magic of ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive selection includes over eighty of his shorter poems, amongst them his most famous and best-loved dramatic monologues, as well as the complete text of many of his longer poems (Pauline, Pippa Passes, ''Bishop Blougram''s Apology''). It contains three books from The Ring and the Book and Browning''s only significant piece of critical writing (the ''Essay on Shelley''). This edition also selects generously from the love letters between Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, as well as from Browning''s more general correspondence - letters which cast a u
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Oxford University Press Troilus and Criseyde
Book Synopsis`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died'' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde will always be united: a pair of lovers whose names are inseparable from passion and tragedy. Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer''s masterpiece and was prized for centuries as his supreme achievement. The story of how Troilus and Criseyde discover love and how she abandons him for Diomede after her departure from Troy is dramatically presented in all its comedy and tragic pathos. With its deep humanity and penetrating insight, Troilus and Criseyde is now recognized as one of the finest narrative poems in the English language. This is a new translation into contemporary English of Chaucer''s greatest single poem which can be read alongside the Middle English original, or as an accurate and readable version in its own right. ABO
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Oxford University Press On the Nature of the Universe
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Oxford University Press Epigrams
Book SynopsisThis new, parallel-text prose translation of a generous selection of Martial's witty and satiric epigrams pulls no punches and matches the boldness of the originals. They bring Imperial Rome vividly to life. The edition establishes Martial's originality as a literary author and includes a full introduction and notes.Trade ReviewMartial is an epigrammatist of unmatched range and brilliance. Treating life, society and human foibles with coruscating wit, he mixes vicious abuse, frequently sexual, of individuals with biting satire on human weakness and lyrical reflections on Rome, friendship and country life. In his extremely useful edition Gideon Nisbet selects over 300 of his subject's c. 1600 poems, doing full justice to Martial's range. * Peter Jones, Classics for All *This translation is offering not only a reasonably comprehensive view of Martial's literary universe, but also a pleasant experience. Gideon Nisbet's version of Martial's Rome and Martial's world is enjoyable and lively. * Carmen Fenechiu, Journal of Ancient History and Archeology *
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Oxford University Press Selected Poems and Songs
Book Synopsis''The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.'' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include ''To a Mouse'', ''John Anderson my Jo'', ''A red red Rose'', ''Auld lang syne'', ''Tam o ''Shanter'' and many more, whose vernacular energy and simple beauty have ensured lasting popularity. This generous new selection offers Burns''s work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. It reproduces the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published at Kilmarnock in 1786, the volume which made Burns famous; and it reunites a generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs with their full scores. Comprehensive notes describe the circumstances in which other poems and songs found their way into print, both before and after the poet''s death. The edition also includes some important letters, and a full glossary to explain Scots words. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chronology ; Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock 1786) ; from Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh 1787) ; Songs from The Scots Musical Museum ; Song from A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, for the Voice (1798-9) ; Other poems and songs published in Burns's lifetime ; Other poems and songs published posthumously ; Maps ; Appendix 1: from the Letters ; Appendix 2: contemporary reviews of the Kilmarnock Poems ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index of Titles and First Lines
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Vintage Publishing Long Days Journey into Night
Book SynopsisLong Day''s Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O''Neill''s death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, ''a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood'', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family.Trade ReviewWhy do we continue to find Eugene O'Neill's family drama so moving? Partly because the play draws so closely on the author's own experience... [but] what also grips us is the tension between O'Neill's tight classical structure and the surging contradictions of family life * Guardian *Harrowing... the dramatic impact is shattering... The passage in which he describes his dirt-poor childhood is overpoweringly moving * Daily Telegraph *O'Neill keeps control with dry humour. This is an acute study of the behavioural ruts as well as the mercurial complexity of family relationships * Independent *Epic... a tale of monstrously corrupted intimacy * Herald *
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The University of Chicago Press Euripides V
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
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The University of Chicago Press Mystical Poems of Rumi
Book SynopsisJalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), legendary Persian Muslim poet, theologian, and mystic, wrote poems acclaimed through the centuries for their spiritual images and provocative content, which often described Rumi's love for God in romantic or even erotic terms. This volume includes four hundred poems which provides English translations of this genius.Trade Review"An excellent introduction to Rumi, the greatest mystical poet of Islam.... Rumi's scope, like that of all the great poets, is universal - reaching from sensuous luxuriance to the driest irony." - Sherman Goldman, East-West Journal"
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire
Book SynopsisChatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom. The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire chronicles her later career and luridly illustrates the perils of reaching such linguistic heights with so very little to say.Trade Review“The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire is a story in verse of the stuttering feeling of finding one’s purpose and overcoming cultural pressures on aging women. Readers across disciplines will relate to the adventures of the contemporary that resonate throughout the book.” Montreal Review of Books
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McGill-Queen's University Press Scapegoat Carnivales Tragic Trilogy Euripidess
Book SynopsisBetween 2010 and 2017 Scapegoat Carnivale presented new performances of Euripides’s Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus. This book reproduces Scapegoat’s adaptations and invites readers to encounter these texts, giving them the tools to better understand where they came from and their relevance in contemporary theatre and life.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Troilus and Cressida The RSC Shakespeare
Book SynopsisFrom the Royal Shakespeare Company a fresh new edition of Shakespeare''sgreat tragedy of love and war THIS EDITION INCLUDES: An illuminating introduction to Troilus and Cressida by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play An introduction to Shakespeare''s career and the Elizabethan theatre A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productionsThe most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of Troilus and Cressida in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors Trevor Nunn and Michael Boyd so that we may get a se
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Penguin Books Ltd The Tower
Book SynopsisThe Tower was W. B. Yeats''s first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower includes some of his greatest and most innovative poems including ''Sailing to Byzantium'', a lyrical meditation on man''s disillusionment with the physical world; ''Leda and the Swan'', a violent and graphic take on the Greek myth of Leda and Zeus and ''Among School Children'', a poetic contemplation of life, love and the creative process.
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Penguin Books Ltd Lamia Isabella The Eve of St Agnes and Other
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Penguin Books Ltd A Shropshire Lad
Book SynopsisAlfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his collection of poems A Shropshire Lad. His poems conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan A Kirghiz
Book SynopsisAn ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords A Penguin ClassicThis tale from the Manas epic gives the reader startling, brilliantly colored access to the world of the horse-based nomad cultures of Central Asia. Written down in the early twentieth century but drawing on sources of antiquity, The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan is the bravura telling of the story of a new and uncertain khan, Boqmurun, and his decision to hold a great gathering to commemorate the life and death of Kökötoy, his already legendary predecessor. From the Muslim lands to the west to China in the east, great warriors and their turbulent retinues gather in the high grasslands to feast, compete and quarrel. Beautifully translated by Daniel Prior, The Memorial Feast allows the reader to get closer than any other source to a sense of the values, glamour and odditiesTrade ReviewPrior's translation ... is written in clear, idiomatic, and often lively English ... Prior's reliable and well annotated translation ... will certainly help further the popularity of the Kirghiz epic tradition. -- Karl Reichl * Turkic Languages *Prior's translation reads in an appropriately lively and energetic way - and even in this form lends itself to being read aloud ... a fine example of how to present a literary work from a lesser-known culture and tradition to readers. -- M. A. Orthofer * complete review *
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Penguin Books Ltd Nomenclature New and Collected Poems Penguin
Book SynopsisAn immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada''s most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand''s poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand''s ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems begins with a new long poem, the titular Nomenclature for the Time Being, in which Dionne Brand''s diaspora consciousness dismantles our quotidian disasters. In addition to this searing new work, Nomenclature collects eight volumes of Brand''s poetry published between 1982 and 2010 and includes a critical introduction by the literary scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe.Nomenclature:
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Penguin Books Ltd As Far as I Know
Book SynopsisRoger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic. He has published many books of poems for children and adults, and both his Collected Poems (2004) and Selected Poems (2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents Poetry Please on Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature.Trade ReviewThe same blend of mischievous wordplay, subversion of cliche and distinctive sense of humour that makes him one of Britain's most popular poets * Spectator *As Far As I Know is self-effacing, unshowy, frequently funny, but with a quiet frankness * Scotsman *Moving poems on memory, love, aging, death and youth ... with his characteristic mix of wordplay and punning, wit, melancholy and self-deprecation * Independent *
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Lulu.com Green Tea and Orange Rind
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University of Illinois Press The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Book SynopsisAn inspired new translation of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulistsTrade ReviewLewis Galantière Prize, American Translators Association, 2008. "The translations are not literal but instead convey the spirit of the 17th-century writer. The volume includes . . . extensive notes offering comments and explicating sources, references, translation difficulties, and so on; and lovely illustrations by David Schorr. Highly recommended."--Choice"Ably translated from the French by Shapiro, the voices of the animals, birds, insects (and even the occasional human) who populate La Fontaine's fables come alive in rhyme and rhythm that develop the traditional tales." --Library Journal"In Shapiro's translations, meaning and sound patterns flow into each other with metrical control and create La Fontaine's soothing melody, which is reinforced through a never-ending wit and humor to articulate and to overcome his distaste for human folly."--Translation Review
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SPCK Publishing Our Last Awakening
Book SynopsisAddresses the desire to explore and retain the heightened awareness and insight that comes to us when confronted by the death of someone we knowTrade ReviewJanet Morley’s selection of poems and her interpretation of them offers a way of meeting death, and all its consequences for our lives, which is challenging, sensitive and profound. This book takes us very close to the deepest questions we all have to face. -- The Rt Revd Tim StevensThe Heart's Time and Haphazard by Starlight: Morley brings to her writing the poet’s sensitivity to language, the critic’s capacity to analyse and interpret, the theologian’s discernment of the sacred, and the teacher’s ability to communicate insight in fresh and memorable ways. -- Nicola Slee, theologian and poet
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Orion Publishing Co Collected Poems From the author of A SUITABLE BOY
Book SynopsisFor the first time, the complete collected poems from the author of A SUITABLE BOY, 'The best writer of his generation' (THE TIMES)Trade ReviewThis satisfyingly fat volume is a delight - from the hilarious Beastly Tales (with illustrations by Ravi Shankar), through the clever and memorable 'Quatrains', to single poems of immense lyrical truth and beauty, such as 'All You Who Sleep Tonight' -- Bel Mooney * DAILY MAIL *All his work shares an interest in using dazzling, lyrical language to bring past and present alive . . . There is so much to enjoy in Seth's mapping of the frailty and joy of our human existence * THE LADY *
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Yale University Press John Keats
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Yale University Press Mass for ShutIns
Book SynopsisThe 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worldsTrade Review
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Zondervan Dear God
Book SynopsisThis broken world so often breaks our hearts and sends us searching for a word of divine love. In Dear God, award-winning and beloved author Bunmi Laditan bravely says what we're all thinking in this wittingly fresh and stunningly relatable collection of letters drawn from her journey of prayerful wrestling with God.
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Little, Brown & Company Above Ground
Book SynopsisAn accessible and moving second book of poems from Clint Smith, the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word is Passed.
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Palgrave Macmillan Thomas Hardy The Complete Poems
Book SynopsisWhere much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies, this book seeks to broaden the conversation through a wider range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs''s oeuvre. With particular attention to the ways Mairs shapes her essays around a variety of unspeakables-such as depression, female sexuality and infidelity, mortality and death, or the struggle for faith in a postmodern world-this collection demonstrates Mairs''s provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.Trade Review'When the paperback of Gibson's Complete Poems is in stock, why buy anything else?' - Professor Dennis Taylor, University of Boston 'Don't order a selection at all if you can get the Complete Poems.' - Professor William Morgan, State University of IllinoisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction; J.Gibson Domicilium Wessex Poems and Other Verses Poems of the Past and the Present Poems of Pilgrimage Miscellaneous Poems Imitations, etc. Retrospect Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses More Love Lyrics A Set of Country Songs Pieces Occasional and Various Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries Poems of 1912-13 Miscellaneous Pieces Satires of Circumstance Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses Poems of War and Patriotism Finale Late Lyrics and Earlier Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres Previous Uncollected Poems Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines
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Hodder & Stoughton Read M Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems
Book SynopsisThis wonderful collection contains the works chosen by Classic FM listeners in the poll to discover their favourite poems. It includes poems by Betjeman, Kipling, Shakespeare, Yeats, Wordsworth and Auden, among many others, as well as biographies of the poets written by Mike Read.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Fat Black Womans Poems
Book Synopsis''Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols''s poems preach disquiet'' OBSERVER''Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean'' GWENDOLYN BROOKS''Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal'' JEANETTE WINTERSONCelebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago''s history, from the 1970s to today.A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nicholas, winner of the Queen''s Gold Medal for Poetry 2021 Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her ''fat black woman'' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors. In other sequences of this collection, Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleas
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Cengage Learning, Inc Communication in Our Lives
Book SynopsisWood/Hains' COMMUNICATION IN OUR LIVES, 9th Edition, provides everything you need to become a more confident and effective communicator -- both personally and professionally. Renowned teachers Julia T. Wood and Rebecca C. Hains combine the latest research, theory and best practices with hands-on skills development. Extremely student friendly, the text features an engaging, personal tone, while frequent Student Voice sections highlight how past learners have experienced key communication concepts. In addition to its signature focus on social and cultural diversity, equity and inclusion, the ninth edition includes expanded coverage of digital media and health communication. An early introduction to public speaking includes plenty of sample speeches, and the importance of effective communication to today's careers is emphasized. Also available: MindTap digital learning solution.Table of ContentsPreface. About the Authors. Introduction. Part I: FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNICATION. 1. The World of Communication. 2. Perception and Communication. 3. Communication and Personal Identity. 4. Listening Effectively. 5. The Verbal Dimension of Communication. 6. The Nonverbal Dimension of Communication. Part II: CONTEXTS OF COMMUNICATION. 7. Communication in Personal Relationships. 8. Communication in Groups and Teams. 9. Communication in Organizations. 10. Communication and Culture. 11. Media and Media Literacy. Part III: PUBLIC COMMUNICATION. 12. Planning Public Speaking. 13. Researching and Developing Support for Public Speeches. 14. Organizing and Presenting Public Speeches. 15. Informative Speaking. 16. Persuasive Speaking. Closing: Pulling Ideas Together. Appendix A: Annotated Sample Speeches. Appendix B: Interviewing. Glossary. References. Index.
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Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Is My Microphone On
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Theatre Communications Group 21 Black Futures
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Invisible Mending
Book SynopsisThe essential poetry of C. K. Williams, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.C. K. Williams (19362015), one of the most treasured American poets of the past century, was also one of the most surprising. From poem to poem, his voice would shift in register and style, yet a certain essence would remain: his conviction, his ethic, and his burning gaze. As William Deresiewicz wrote in The New York Times, Williams's scorching honesty has always been his calling card. His poetry proceeds not from a verbal impulse, not from a lyrical impulse, not even from a prophetic or visionary impulse, but from a moral impulse. Everything, in his work, is held up to the most exacting ethical scrutiny, beginning with the poet himself.Invisible Mending: The Best of C. K. Williams is the essential collection of the great poet's work. Selected by his family and friends and with an introduction by the award-winning poet Alan Shapiro, this book charts
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WW Norton & Co Middle English Lyrics
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition offers one of the largest collections of Middle English lyrics ever made available to the college student.
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WW Norton & Co Othello
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition includes the First Folio text, along with an introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text and textual notes.
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WW Norton & Co Adrienne Rich Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition brings research into this beloved poet’s body of work completely up to date.
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WW Norton & Co Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties
Book SynopsisAn anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers.Trade Review"Wild stuff." Shaun Whiteside, The Guardian
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WW Norton & Co Something New Under the Sun
Book Synopsis"One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New YorkerTrade Review"Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details." -- Washington Post"A monumental, important, and timely work of interdisciplinary scholarship, written to be accessible to anyone interested in the relationship between our species and the planet that supports us." -- Chris Lavers - The Guardian"This scientifically informed survey makes a useful resource for environmentalists, scholars, globalists, biologists, policy makers and concerned readers." -- Publishers Weekly
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WW Norton & Co The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Book SynopsisFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth BergTrade Review"Howe is a careful and soulful alchemist. She makes metaphor matter and material metaphysical. She becomes magic with her transforming perspective that is part mother, part muscle, part music, part mind. This book has the amazing thing that Howe always seems to pull off: the miracle." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"In Marie Howe's new collection... we delve into the connection between regular life and the intensified life inspired by revelation." -- Washington Post Book World"A lovely, clearheaded collection." -- Austin Chronicle"An avid eye for the glint of gold." -- Booklist
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WW Norton & Co Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Book SynopsisA musical, magical, resilient volume from one of the most celebrated Native American voices.Trade Review"Joy Harjo’s elision of poetry, song, activism, movement, lament and prophecy imbues the collection with an exhilarating vitality. " -- The Poetry Review
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WW Norton & Co Collected Poems 19742004
Book SynopsisThree decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.Trade Review"Ms Dove's poems have earthiness, originality, power and range." -- The New York Times Book Review
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WW Norton & Co When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs
Book SynopsisThe first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology, without which no study of American poetry is complete.Trade Review"When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through is nothing less than a landmark anthology of Native Nations Poetry... The poets in this anthology are artists, historians, and keepers of the truths of their heritage, their people, and their lands. These poems are testament to their personal journeys and this collection is transcendent in its authority and eternal power." -- Lew Whittington - New York Journal of Books"...When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry... give[s] a sense of the depth of marginalised voices." -- Paul Perry, The Best Books of 2020: Poetry - The Irish Independent
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