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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems Keats John Keats Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisA selection of Keats's greatest poemsOver the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should ‘be among the English poets after my death’. This wide-ranging selection of Keats’s poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem ‘Imitation of Spenser’; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including ‘Lamia’, ‘Isabella’, ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Hyperion’ - and later celebrated works such as ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be lesser work, but which illustrate his more earthy, playful side and superb ear for everyday language.For more than seventy year
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Penguin Books Ltd The Complete Poems
Book SynopsisCovering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Poems of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.Keats''s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized his genius. In his short life he proved to be one of the greatest and most original thinkers of the second generation of Romantic poets, with such poems as ''Ode to a Nightingale'', ''Bright Star,'' ''The Eve of St Agnes'' and ''La Belle Dame sans Merci''. While his writing is illuminated by his exaltation of the imagination and abounds with sensuous descriptions of nature''s beauty, it also explores profound philosophical questions.John Barnard''s acclaimed volume contains all the poems known to have been written by Keats, arranged by date of composition. The texts are lightly modernized and are complemented by extensive notes, a comprehensive introduction, an index of classical names, selected extracts from Keats''s letters and a number of pieces not widely available, including his annotations to Milton''s Paradise Lost.John Keats (1795-1821) lost both his parents at an early age. His decision to commit himself to poetry, rather than follow a career in medicine, was a personal challenge, unfounded in any prior success. His first volume of poetry, published in 1817, was a critical and commercial failure. During his short life he received little recognition, and it was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that his place in English Romanticism began to be understood, and not until this century that it became fully appreciated.If you enjoyed Keats''s Complete Poems you might enjoy John Clare''s Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics.Table of ContentsThe Complete PoemsIntroductionNote to the Third EditionAcknowledgmentsTable of DatesFurther ReadingImitation of SpenserOn Peace"Fill for me a brimming bowl"To Lord Byron"As from the darkening gloom a silver dove""Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream"To ChattertonWritten on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left PrisonTo HopeOde to Apollo ("In thy western halls of gold")Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the 2ndTo Some LadiesOn Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same LadiesTo EmmaSong ("Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay")"Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain""O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell"To George Felton MathewTo [Mary Frogley]To -- ("Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs")"Give me Women, Wine, and Snuff"Specimen of an Induction to a PoemCalidore. A Fragment"To one who has been long in city pent""O! how I love, on a fair summer's eve"To a Friend who Sent me some RosesTo my Brother George ("Many the wonders I this day have seen")To Charles Cowden Clarke"How many bards gild the lapses of time!"On First Looking into Chapman's HomerTo a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel CrownOn Leaving some Friends at an Early Hour"Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there"Addressed to HaydonTo my BrothersAddressed to [Haydon]"I stood tip-toe upon a little hill"Sleep and PoetryWritten in Disgust of Vulgar SuperstitionOn the Grasshopper and CricketTo KosciuskoTo G[eorgiana] A[ugusta] W[ylie]"Happy is England! I could be content""After dark vapours have oppressed our plains"To Leigh Hunt, Esq.Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of The Floure and the LeafeOn Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh HuntTo the Ladies who Saw Me CrownedOde to Apollo ("God of the golden bow")On Seeing the Elgin MarblesTo B. R. Haydon, with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin MarblesOn The Story of RiminiOn a Leander Gem which Miss Reynolds, my Kind Friend, Gave MeOn the SeaLines ("Unfelt, unheard, unseen")Stanzas ("You say you love; but with a voice")"Hither, hither, love -"Lines Rhymed in a Letter Received (by J. H. Reynolds) From Oxford"Think not of it, sweet one, so - "Endymion: A Poetic Romance"In drear-nighted December"Nebuchadnezzar's DreamApollo to the GracesTo Mrs. Reynolds's CatOn Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair. OdeOn Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again"When I have fears that I may cease to be""O blush not so! O blush not so!""Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port""God of the meridian"Robin HoodLines on the Mermaid TavernTo - ("Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb")To the Nile"Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine""Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven, the domain""O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind"Sonnet to A[ubrey] G[eorge] S[pencer]Extracts from an Operai. "O! were I one of the Olympian twelve"ii. Daisy's Songiii. Folly's Songiv. "O, I am frightened with most hateful thoughts"v. Song ("The stranger lighted from his steed")vi. "Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!"The Human Seasons"For there's Bishop's Teign""Where be ye going, you Devon maid?""Over the hill and over the dale"To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.To J[ames] R[ice]Isabella; or, The Pot of BasilTo HomerOde to May. FragmentAcrostic"Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes"On Visiting the Tomb of Burns"Old Meg she was a gipsy"A Song about Myself"Ah! ken ye what I met the day"To Ailsa Rock"This mortal body of a thousand days""All gentle folks who owe a grudge""Of late two dainties were before me placed"Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's CountryOn Visiting Staffa"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud""Upon my life, Sir Nevis, I am piqued"Stanzas on some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near InvernessTranslated from Ronsard"'Tis 'the witching time of night'""Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow"Song ("Spirit that here reignest")"Where's the Poet? Show him, show him"Fragment of the "Castle Builder""And what is love? It is a doll dressed up"Hyperion. A FragmentFancyOde ("Bards of Passion and of Mirth")Song ("I had a dove and the sweet dove died")Song ("Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush my dear!")The Eve of St. AgnesThe Eve of St. Mark"Gif ye wol stonden hardie wight""Why did I laugh tonight?"Faery Bird's Song ("Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!")Faery Song ("Ah! woe is me! poor silver-wing!")"When they were come unto the Faery's Court""The House of Mourning written by Mr. Scott"Character of Charles BrownA Dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and FrancescaLa Belle Dame Sans Merci. A BalladSong of Four FaeriesTo Sleep"If by dull rhymes our English must be chained"Ode to PsycheOn Fame (I) ("Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy")On Fame (II) ("How fevered is the man who cannot look")"Two or three posies"Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to a NightingaleOde on MelancholyOde on IndolenceOtho the Great. A Tragedy in Five ActsLamia"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes"To AutumnThe Fall of Hyperion. A Dream"The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone""What can I do to drive away""I cry your mercy, pity, love - ay, love""Bright star! would I were as steadfast as thou art"King Stephen. A Fragment of a Tragedy"This living hand, now warm and capable"The Cap and Bells; or, The JealousiesTo Fanny"In after-time, a sage of mickle lore"Three Undated FragmentsDoubtful Attributions:"See, the ship in the bay is riding"The PoetGripusAppendix 1: Wordsworth and Hazlitt on the Origins of Greek MythologyAppendix 2: The Two Prefaces to EndymionAppendix 3: The Order of Poems in Poems (1817) and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820) and The Publisher's Advertisement for 1820Appendix 4: Keats's Notes on Milton's Paradise LostAppendix 5: Keats on Kean's Shakespearean ActingAppendix 6: Selection of Keats's LettersNotesDictionary of Classical NamesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines
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Oxford University Press Selected Poems with parallel German text Oxford
Book Synopsis''Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us''Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, his poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. He strives constantly to interrogate the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry.This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke''s poetic development. It contains the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, selected poems from The Book of Images, New Poems, and earlier volumes, and from the uncollected poetry 1906-26. The translations are accurate, sensitive, and nuanced, and are accompanied by an introduction and notes that elucidate Rilke''s poetic practice and his central role in modern poetry. 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 ReviewA masterly introduction to Rilke ... a representative and well-judged assortment of poems, both familiar and uncollected ... a wealth of excellent and thoughtful notes * The Brown Book *Table of ContentsSELECTED EARLY POEMS; THE BOOK OF HOURS (SELECTIONS); THE BOOK OF IMAGES (SELECTIONS); NEW POEMS (SELECTIONS); UNCOLLECTED POEMS (SELECTIONS); SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (COMPLETE); DUINO ELEGIES (COMPLETE)
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd Othello Collectors Edition
Book SynopsisOthello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. Productions on stage and screen regularly renew its power to engross, impress and trouble the imagination.
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HarperCollins Publishers Same
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Cornerstone The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish
Book SynopsisErnest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.Trade ReviewThis is immediate, unmistakable Hemingway. -- Philip Young * The New York Times Book Review *
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Penguin Books Ltd A Dolls House and Other Plays
Book SynopsisDepicting one woman's struggle to be treated as a rational human being, and not merely a wife, mother or fragile doll, this play changed the course of theatrical history and sparked debates worldwide about the roles of men and women in society.
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Oxford University Press Collected Poems and Other Verse
Book Synopsis''sense too definite cancels yourindistinct literature''Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced the course of modern poetry - in English as well as in French. In both form and content, his poems created new ways of conveying existential doubt, fragmentation, and discontinuity. This is the fullest collection of Mallarmé''s poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Poésies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. Apart from verse, it includes all the prose poems and the unique, unclassifiable Un Coup de dés... (A Dice Throw...). The lucid, wide-ranging introduction and invaluable notes help an understanding of this astonishing poet''s work. 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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Octopus Publishing Group Faeries Sprites Malevolent Spirits
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Scholastic Macbeth
Book SynopsisWhen three sinister witches tell Macbeth that power and glory couldbe within his grasp, he murders the king in a bid to ensure hisfuture. But he soon sees the error of his ways, for if you killonce, you will kill again - and the dead will return to haunt youfor your sins.
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Union Square & Co. Love Poems Barnes Noble Collectible Editions
Book SynopsisOne of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions, this anthology of love poems features a durable, bonded-leather binding and distinctive gilt edging.
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Random House 100 Queer Poems
Book SynopsisMary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more. * A Guardian Best Poetry Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards *Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, 100 Queer Poems presents an electrifying range of writing from the twentieth century to the present day. Questioning and redefining what we mean by a 'queer' poem, you'll find inside classics by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Wilfred Owen, Charlotte Mew and June Jordan, central contemporary figures such as Mark Doty, Jericho Brown, Carol Ann Duffy, Kei Miller, Kae Tempest, Natalie Diaz and Ocean Vuong, alongside thrilling new voices including Chen Chen, Richard Scott, Harry Josephine Giles, Verity Spott
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1st World Library - Literary Society The Devil's Disciple
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Vintage Publishing Assurances
Book Synopsis**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction.Using a mix of versed and unversed passages, Morgan places moments of calm reflection alongside the tensions inherent in guarding against such a permanent threat. A work of variations and possibilities, we hear the thoughts of those involved who are trying to understand and justify their roles. We examine the lives of civilians who are not aware of the impending danger, as well as those who are. We listen to the whirring minds of machines; to the voice of the bomb itself. We spy on enemy agents: always there, always somewhere close at hand.Assurances is an intimate, dramatic work for many voices: lyrical, anxious, fragmentary and terrifying; a poem about the nuclear stalemate, the deterrent that is still in place today: how it works and how it might fail, and what will vanish if it does.Trade ReviewI seriously doubt I will read a more significant book of poetry this year. The finale is truly affecting, a plangent and profound speck of light. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *[JO Morgan's] remarkable new book Assurances [is] a gripping narrative poem. -- Tristram Fane Saunders * Telegraph *
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 273
Book SynopsisThe September-October 2023 issue. During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. This issue includes celebrating the poetry of Taiwan and the National Museum of Taiwan Literature; Major translations from the poems of the leading German poet Joachim Sartorius, the prose of Alberto Manguel, and introducing the wildly implausible poems of Khan Gazi II Giray; Philip Terry asks 'What is Poetry' and provides provisional answers; Rory Waterman visits Robert Browning in Waco; and Jonathan Hirschfeld remembers Daniel Pearl in stone. Our vast archive now includes over 270 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others. We'll be celebrating throughout the year: look out for announcements of our events in the autumn, and subscribe to our free newsletter to get choice morsels of archive straight to your inbox.Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Other Wild
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Alma Books Ltd The Flowers of Evil
Book SynopsisJudicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in agreat metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism.Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form of the original French, but also makes powerful English poetry in its own right. Presented here in a dual-language edition, with extra material, notes and bibliography.Trade Review"Need I tell you that in this terrible book I have put all my heart, all my tenderness, all my religion (disguised), all my hatred? It is true that I shall write the opposite, that I shall swear by all the gods that it is a work of pure art, of mimicry, of mere dexterity - and I shall be lying through my teeth." - Charles Baudelaire"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language, for his verse and language is the nearest thing to a complete renovation that we have experienced." - T.S. Eliot"The translations are very good indeed" - John Banville"The best way yet for us to enter the poet's dream-like world, producing, as his title says, beauty from the sordid world around him" - Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian"This should be read by any poetry lover" - Bill Spence, Yorkshire Gazette & Herald Need I tell you that in this terrible book I have put all my heart, all my tenderness, all my religion (disguised), all my hatred? It is true that I shall write the opposite, that I shall swear by all the gods that it is a work of pure art, of mimicry, of mere dexterity and I shall be lying through my teeth. - Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language, for his verse and language is the nearest thing to a complete renovation that we have experienced. - T.S. Eliot The translations are very good indeed - John Banville The best way yet for us to enter the poet s dream-like world, producing, as his title says, beauty from the sordid world around him - Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian This should be read by any poetry lover - Bill Spence, Yorkshire Gazette & Herald"
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Snow
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Eyewear Publishing NAKED: The Honest Musings of 2 Brown Women
Book SynopsisThis impressive and enjoyable debut poetry collection by American-Tamil poet Selvi M. Bunce and Ugandan poet Mimi Mutesa is enriched with unique illustrations by Mimi. It is a fiery challenge to preconceptions of race and relationships through poems of autobiography and self-empowerment.These poems are bold, humorous, and uninhibited, charting revelatory journeys through the complexities of identity, family, love, and independence. Dedicated to all of us who are bad, brown and brazen.'
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Burning Eye Books 2 Black 2 Furious
Book SynopsisThe King of pop culture poetry returns with his second collection! As the great Dominic Toretto once said, ‘I don’t have friends, I have family’. 2Black2Furious largely looks at both what family can be: linked by blood, heritage, found and chosen. Tyrone Lewis intersects his exploration on race, and continues to ask the question – what does it truly mean to be Black in a world weighted with perception. There’s also some Avril thrown in too, because you can’t go wrong with some Avril.Trade Review‘Jedi grand master poet’ – @SpitTheAtom
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Little Toller Books Long Grass in the Wind
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
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Spidling Productions Limited Love is in the air
Book SynopsisJohn's latest collection of poems captures the pleasure,poignancy and pain of love and romance. The poems cover different people,occasions, and places. They range from thoughtful and serious to very witty. There is a poem for everyone.
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Hermits United Notched
Book SynopsisNotchedis translated from Jacques Dupin's mesmerisingÉchancré(P.O.L, 1991).
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Hermits United Appeasements
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
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Nine Arches Press Lady
Book SynopsisLady, the new collection of poems by Laurie Bolger, plays with the arc of a chick flick. Whilst trying to be the most honest version of themselves the poems play the parts of housewife, fitness instructor, landlady, hen, sister, mother, boxer or drunk. The poems get stuck on the ideal of small girl in a big dress when perhaps we are wild, dreaming big and taking it all in.
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Motilal Banarsidass, The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama
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Andrews McMeel Publishing The Way Forward
Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most ambitious collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favourite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others. In these rapidly changing times, it is more important than ever to know ourselves well and fully, even and especially in the face of turmoil. The Way Forward encourages readers to connect more deeply to their intuition, using it to remain focused and grounded amidst a world in constant flux. In his latest collection of poetry and short prose, Yung Pueblo offers clear strategies for managing the unknown, inhabiting your personal power, and bringing your truest, healthiest self to relationships. Progressing naturally from both Inward and Clarity & Connection, The Way Forward is exactly that—an inspired beginning.
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Tuttle Publishing Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and
Book SynopsisAlthough the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the death poem. Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the great majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan, and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined from the poems of longing of the early nobility and the more masculine verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.Trade Review Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss discuss Japanese Death Poems on episode #670 of The Tim Ferriss Show - Listen to it here (conversation starts at 1:18:00)"There is something so otherworldly and beautiful about Japanese poetry, but especially Japanese poetry about death…poetry and prose regarding death, dreams, and memories have an extra weight and heft to them, whilst still being able to maintain an ethereal, dreamy, nostalgic, cozy warm delivery in their thematic idea exploration." —Traveling Book Nerds"A wonderful introduction to the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems."—Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
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Oxford University Press The Poetic Edda
Book Synopsis''She sees, coming up a second time,Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting fish.''After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress''s Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related. The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the lovely goddesses and the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi, Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer, Brynhild the shield-maiden, and the implacable Gudrun. New in this revised translation are the quest-poem The Lay of Svipdag and The Waking of Angantyr, in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword.Comic, tragic, instructive, grandiose, witty and profound, the poems of the Edda have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien and a new generation of video-game and film makers.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 ReviewLarringtons version of The Poetic Edda has been beautifully translated, and the flow of each poem is perfect. * Kirsty Hewitt, Book Hugger *A 750-year-old haul of Icelandic verse might not sound like cutting-edge entertainment but these sinewy sagas include such modern elements as gutsy heroines and ultra-violence. * Christopher Hirst, Independent *these sinewy sagas include such modern elements as gutsy heroines and ultra-violence * Independent *
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Silver Press Zong
Book SynopsisPoetic sequence drawing on the language of the legal case that followed the massacre on the slave ship Zong in 1781.
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisWith an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Sonnets
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.In black ink my love may still shine bright'Universally admired and quoted, Shakespeare's Sonnets have love, beauty and the passing of time at their heart. Featuring some of the best-known and best-loved lines in the history of poetry (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?', Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds'), these evocative sonnets explore passion, the fleeting nature of beauty and the essence of true and everlasting love.Enticing lovers and scholars alike, these 154 beautiful and sensual sonnets are as relevant and important today as when they were written 400 years ago.Trade Review‘A symbol in the history of our national culture’ – The Guardian
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Burning Eye Books At What Point
Book SynopsisCaitlin O'Ryan's debut collection is a journey of mirror smashing and everything we have come to accept being called into question. Her poems vibrate through the pages with a sense of urgency that says you are not alone, I also feel this. The title poem has amassed millions of views online and featured on BBC Woman's Hour.
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Chronicle Books Cats in Spring Rain
Book SynopsisNo one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa period, many artists turned their gaze toward an unlikely subject: their small feline companions. Closely observed portraits in words and ink elevate the everyday adventures of cats: taking a nap on a Buddha statue's lap, daintily eating a rice ball, courting the neighbor's cat. This curated collection of poems, prints, and paintings will leave you inspired to cultivate the serenity and wonder embodied by these creators - and by the cats themselves. Presented as a sweet, jacketed paperback with thoughtful design touches, this volume includes each poem in both English and Japanese.
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Batsford Poetry of Love for Every Day of the Year
Book Synopsis Celebrate love with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year. From well-known classics to modern fresh takes, Poetry of Love for Every Day of the Year explores love in all its forms. Love is such a uniquely human feeling which has made it an inexhaustible subject for writers across the ages. There are so many meanings for this one word - it can evoke friends, family, romance or a sense of home.Everyone has their own attachments and associations, which is what makes this collection so fascinating. Among the 366 poems are Shakespeare''s classic sonnets, Ocean Vuong''s experiences of young queer love, Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s ode to her dog, Charlotte Mew dealing with loss, and much, much more. With a wide range of voices spanning across the world through many centuries, this anthology explores how love can mean so many things and how it connects us all. This is the newest title in Batsford''s highly popular Poetry Anthology series, and is the perfect bedside companion for late night reading or morning meditation.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Aeneid
Book SynopsisVirgil''s masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithVirgil''s Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem that sits at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race. In telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering, in its physicality and its mystery.Trade Review"A new and noble standard bearer . . . There's a capriciousness to Fagles's line well suited to this vast story's ebb and flow." -The New York Times Book Review (front page review) "Fagles's new version of Virgil's epic delicately melds the stately rhythms of the original to a contemporary cadence. . . . He illuminates the poem's Homeric echoes while remaining faithful to Virgil's distinctive voice." -The New Yorker "Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid." -J. M. Coetzee
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Oxford University Press The Merchant of Venice The Oxford Shakespeare
Book SynopsisWhat was Shakespeare''s attitude to Semitism? The Introduction to this edition of The Merchant of Venice opens by addressing this vital issue raised by the play, and goes on to study the sources, background, and date, includuing a discussion of Sigmund Freud''s essay on ''The Three Caskets''. Professor Halio interprets the play''s contradictions, inconsistencies, and complementarities, especially as these relate to the overarching theme of bonds and bondage. A survey of the play''s stage history ranges from discussions of its early staging to important twentieth-century productions and performances outside England, particularly in Israel.The text, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, is presented in modernized spelling and punctuation. Unfailingly lucid and helpful, this is an ideal edition for students, actors, and the general reader. 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 ReviewThe annotation, generally proficient, is admirably frank in rendering sexual doubles entendres and is frequently illuminating in its references to modes of staging ... As in the other volumes of this Oxford Shakespeare series, there is a good range of pictorial material and a very useful index ... this edition of The Merchant of Venice is creditable, lucid, and practical. * Cedric Watts, University of Sussex, Review of English Studies, Vol. 47, No. 186, May '96 *
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Penguin Books Ltd Food Gertrude Stein Penguin Modern
Book SynopsisSadder than salad.From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Shearsman Books Maldon Other Translations
Book SynopsisShowcasing some of Michael Smith's more unusual translations, this volumes features a version of the Anglo-Saxon Battle of Maldon, together with translations of two long 18th-Century Irish poems, The Death of Art O'Leary and Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen, and 250 cantes flamencos.
£4.23
Odilo In Dream of Diminished Responsibility
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Pan Macmillan May Day
Book SynopsisJackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. A poet, novelist and writer of short stories, she has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. Her novel, Trumpet, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She has published three collections of stories with Picador, Why Don't You Stop Talking, Wish I Was Here, and Reality, Reality; three poetry collections, Fiere, Bantam, and May Day; and her memoir, Red Dust Road. From 2016 to 2021 she was the third modern Makar, National Poet for Scotland. She lives in Manchester and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Salford.
£10.44
Vintage Publishing The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen
Book Synopsis'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent "down some profound dull tunnel" in the stinking mud of the Western Front. For most readers of English poetry, the face under that helmet is that of Wilfred Owen.' Professor Jon Stallworthy, from his Introduction.When Wilfred Owen was killed in the days before the Armistice in 1918, he left behind a shattering, truthful and indelible record of a soldier's experience of the First World War. His greatest war poetry has been collected, edited and introduced here by Professor Jon Stallworthy. This special edition is published to commemorate the end of the hellish war that Owen, though the hard-won truth and terrible beauty of his poetry, has taught us never to forget.Trade ReviewOthers have shown the disenchantment of war, have unlegended the roselight and romance of it, but none with such compassion for the disenchanted or such sternly just and justly stern judgment on the idyllisers. * Guardian, 1920 *For me, he is the greatest of all the war poets.... it is Owen's intense respect for the soldier that makes his poetry so powerful. Those who did not return have their meticulously maintained stone memorials on the fields of Flanders. But their memorial in our minds is largely built by Wilfred Owen -- Jeremy Paxman * Spectator *The greatest of all the War Poets… This edition…is a must for every poetry lover -- Emma Lee-Potter * Independent *
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Alma Books Ltd Sonnets
Book SynopsisShakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time. First published in 1609, after Shakespeare had written many of his most famous works, the Sonnets have been the subject of literary curiosity ever since, mainly concerning the identity of the two addressees, `Mr W.H.' and the `Dark Lady', and the light they could shine on Shakespeare's life. This collection constitutes one of English literature's most profound poetic meditations on life and love, and is a vital complement to the plays, offering clues to Shakespeare's own biography. Presented here in an edition that makes them accessible to twentieth-century readers, these poems are worth returning to again and again.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems
Book SynopsisFrank O'Hara (1926-66) composed poems 'any time, any place', collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For O'Hara, the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and exciting, and his poems have an immediacy that draws its energies from the pace and rhythms of city life, and from the contemporary artforms of jazz, film and painting. It is this openness to experience that makes O'Hara an indispensable poet of the imaginative experience of the modern city. Reviewing this new selection in the Guardian, Charles Bainbridge wrote: 'Frank O'Hara is a wonderful poet - funny, moving, chatty, engaging, enthusiastic, risk-taking, elegiac, supremely urban - and anything that encourages people to read him is a good thing. His poems have a disarming intimacy, a kind spontaneous enthusiasm and his work proves, with tremendous elan and energy, that you don't have to adopt a solemn tone in order to write poetry of seriousness and purpose. As O'Hara himself says of the nature of writing in the brilliantly comic "Personism: A Manifesto": "You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep'." '
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Nine Arches Press Light Year
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Prakash Books Greatest Tragedies of Shakespeare
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Home Body
Book SynopsisFrom the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else - home
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes
Book SynopsisCharles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
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