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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Woods Lakeboat Edmond Mamet David
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Goose Lane Editions Reckonings Poems 197985
Book SynopsisLane is allusive, intricate, and technically ranging, while the abiding impulses of her work remain spirituously generous and affirmative. Few contemporary poets have her command of tone, able to shift from intense intellectual attention to private joy, from the ironical to the lyrical. This is poetry both demanding and magnanimous. Reckonings is a very substantial collection which certainly enhances her reputation as one of Canada''s finest writers and brings her work to the wider audience she deserves.
£6.99
Fitzrovia Press The Dangerous Book
Book SynopsisA new version of the Bible, "The Dangerous Book," by poet Jay Ramsay, explores the transformation of God from tribal deity to God of Unconditional Love. Released for Bible Sunday on October 28, 2018, it emphasizes the epic Hero's Journey within the Bible and its significance to Western Civilization.
£5.69
Simon & Schuster Ltd Adultolescence
Book SynopsisA collection of more than 150 witty and edgy poems about love and relationships from the YouTube comedian and vlogger behind ‘The Gabbie Show’.
£11.04
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Persians
Book SynopsisThe only surviving play of Aeschylus to be based on a historical eventthe Greek victory at Salamis just a few years before the play was writtenPersians appears in Deborah H. Roberts'' brilliant new verse translation accompanied by her Introduction, Notes, Maps, and Chronology. Also included are newly translated excerpts from Herodotus' Histories that should fascinate any reader of the play.
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Pallas Athene Publishers Elegies of Love
Book SynopsisNever reprinted since their first, posthumous appearance in 1935, these woodcuts were the only printed versions of his work to receive Rodin's full approval. Mostly self-educated, Rodin was a passionate re-reader of his favourite books, and Ovid's Love Elegies occupied a special place in his imagination. These woodcut illustrations were taken from the astonishingly free and improvisatory life drawings he made in his later years. For many people these are the most entrancing manifestation of his genius. Privately published in 1939 in a very strictly limited edition, these 31 beautiful images are very rarely seen. This edition marries Rodin's illustrations to Christopher Marlowe's glittering translation, which was ceremonially burnt by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1599.
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Enitharmon Press Selected Verse Translations
Book SynopsisThis is a rich harvest from a renowned translator, an elegant survivor. In 1996, in his eightieth year, David Gascoyne was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in recognition of his profound contribution to French literature and art. This collection includes some of his best work - early translations, recent unpublished translations, and a substantial section of translations printed in journals over the past twenty-five years.Translations by David Gascoyne of: Guillaume Apollinaire, Andre Breton, Blaise Cendrars, Rene Char, Xie Chuang, Rene Daumal, Yves de Bayser, Robert Desnos, Andre du Bouchet, Paul Eluard, Pierre Emmanuel, Jean Follain, Benjamin Fondane, Andre Frenaud, Eugene Guillevic, Maurice Henry, Friedrich Holderlin, Georges Hugent, Edmond Jabes, Max Jacob, Pierre Jean Jouve, Valery Larbaud, Giacomo Leopardi, Stephane Mallarme, Loys Masson, O. V. de L. Milosz, Benjamin Peret, Francis Ponge, Gisele Prassinos, Raymond Queneau, Pierre Reverdy, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Arthur Rimbaud, Gui Rosey, Philippe Soupault, Jules Supervielle, Jean Tardieu, Georg Trakl and Tristan Tzara.
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Wave Books Trances of the Blast
Book Synopsis"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."--David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey "What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle ...any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant wit and language, subject to an exacting intelligence."--Rodney Jones, Poetry Society of America, William Carlos Williams Award citation Trances of the Blast is a major new collection from recent National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Mary Ruefle. Full of Ruefle's particular wisdom and wit, the poems deliver her imaginative take on the world's rifts--its paradoxes, failures, and loss--and help us better appreciate its redeeming strangeness. If only I'd understood that loneliness was just loneliness, only loneliness and nothing more. But I was blind. Little did I know. If only I'd invented salt. I might have died happy. I wish I loved you, but you can't have everything. Mary Ruefle is the author of many books of prose, poetry, and erasures. She is the recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. Her book of lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives and teaches in Vermont.Table of ContentsContents Saga Metaphysical Blight Spikenard The Estate of Single Blessedness Are We Alone? Is It Safe to Speak? Le Livre de ma Vie En Route Provenance Müller and Me Middle School Fireworks College Mimosa Greetings My Dear Ghost The Day New Morning Receiving News of the Devastation of My Mind Donkey On Midsummer at Jefferson Slough Jaroslav Goodnight Irene Nite Nite Marco Polo Little Eternities Favorite Song The Afternoon According to Saint Matthew On Velvet Turf Paris by Moonlight Albert Finney Agon Argot Helium Apologia Hold That Thought Ars Poetica Spider A Custom of Mourning Abdication A Penny for Your Thoughts One World at a Time Eric with the Light Brown Hair Happy Jumping Ahead Women in Labor Shalimar Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity Open Letter to My Ancestors Sawdust Broken Spoke Fall Leaf Studies Platonic Woodtangle Trances of the Blast White Buttons Faster Love Is All There Is The Seafood Fanciers Calm, How Darest Thou Wait The Art of Happiness For Carlos Literal Pipkins of the Mimulus Up Above Peridot Narrow Road to the North Wings of Love Dolorous Interlude Rumors of Earth What Went Ye Out Into May to See? Bloodroot Q&A Sudden Additional Energy Poem Written Before I Was Born Elegy for a Game With Love & Disregard Picking Up Pinecones Acknowledgments
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Foundation Books Anthony and Cleopatra
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisRobert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose - whether everyday or sublime - into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the personalities of a diverse range of characters, and introduced a new immediacy, colloquial energy and psychological complexity to the poetry of his day. This selection brings together verse ranging from early dramatic monologues such as the chilling ''My Last Duchess'' and the ribald ''Fra Lippo Lippi'', which show his gift for inhabiting the mind of another, to the popular children''s poem ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' and many lesser known works. All display his innovative techniques of diction, rhythm and symbol, which transformed Victorian poetry and influenced major poets of the twentieth century such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost.Table of ContentsSelected PoemsIntroductionNote on the TextPorphyria's LoverJohannes Agricola in MeditationSong from Pippa Passes ("The year's at the spring")Scene from Pippa Passes ("There goes a swallow to Venice...")My Last DuchessSoliloquy of the Spanish CloisterThe Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Chld's Story"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"The Lost LeaderMeeting at NightParting at MorningHome-Thoughts, from AbroadThe Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's ChurchLove Among the RuinsA Lovers' QuarrelUp at a Villa - Down in the CityFra Lippo LippiA Toccata of Galuppi'sAn Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab PhysicianMesmerismA Serenade at the Villa"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"The Statue and the BustHow It Strikes a ContemporaryThe PatriotMemorabiliaAndrea del SartoIn a YearCleonTwo in the CampagnaA Grammarian's FuneralJames Lee's WifeI. James Lee's Wife Speaks at the WindowII. By the FiresideIII. In the DoorwayIV. Along the BeachV. On the CliffVI. Reading a Book, Under the CliffVII. Among the RocksVIII. Beside the Drawing-BoardIX. On DeckGold Hair: A Story of PornicDis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos JoursA Death in the DesertCaliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the IslandConfessionsYouth and ArtA LikenessMr. Sludge, "The Medium"Apparent FailureEpilogue [to Dramatis Personae]HouseSaint Martin's SummerNed BrattsClive[Wanting is - what?]DonaldNever the Time and the PlaceThe NamesNowBeatric SignoriniSpring SongNotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines
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Penguin Books Ltd Medea and Other Plays Medea Hecabe Electra
Book SynopsisFour plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions. In Medea, a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both love, and Hecabe depicts the former queen of Troy, driven mad by the prospect of her daughter's sacrifice to Achilles. Electra portrays a young woman planning to avenge the brutal death of her father at the hands of her mother, while in Heracles the hero seeks vengeance against the evil king who has caused bloodshed in his family. Philip Vellacott's lucid translation is accompanied by an introduction, which discusses the literary background of Classical Athens aTable of ContentsMedea and Other PlaysIntroductionMedeaHecabeElectraHeraclesNotes
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Penguin Books Ltd The Iliad
Book SynopsisCentres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.Trade Review“Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics.” –Atlantic Monthly “Fitzgerald’s swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make Homer live as never before…This is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time.”–Library Journal “[Fitzgerald’s Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer’s art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase.” –The Yale Review“What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent, the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr. Fitzgerald’s.” –National ReviewWith an Introduction by Gregory Nagy
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Penguin Books Ltd Much Ado About Nothing Penguin Classics
Book Synopsis''We go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves'' Jeanette WintersonBeatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, the pair begin to question whether their witty banter and verbal sparring conceal something deeper. Schemes abound, dangerous misunderstandings proliferate and matches are eventually made in this dazzling, dark-edged comedy of mature love and second chances. Used and Recommended by the National TheatreGeneral Editor Stanley WellsEdited by R. A. FoakesIntroduction by Janette DillonTrade ReviewPraise for William Shakespeare: Complete Works:“A feast of literary and historical information.” —The Wall Street Journal
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Penguin Random House India The Mahabharata
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Oxford University Press The Kalevala An Epic Poem After Oral Tradition
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewan unread masterpiece...The translator, Mr Bosley, is an English poet and knows the Finnish language, accomplishments which few can rival...try this book; you will not be disappointed. * The Spectator *Keith Bosley's Kalevala is a poet's translation, impressive for its stylistic daring, its taste and its scholarly awareness and for the sheer pleasure it gives. The zest and energy of the 22,795 line epic is communicated by the freshness and force of the translator's approach. Not only the poetry itself, but also the long introduction which Mr. Bosley provides convey his enthusiasm and personal enjoyment of the original text... The publication of Mr. Bosley's Kalevala is, I think, a major literary event... More than any previous translation, Mr. Bosley's should establish The Kalevala as part of our common cultural background. * Anthony James, Agenda *Keith Bosley has been able to imitate the weaving repetitions, formulae, parallelisms, imagery, and content, and feels a poetic affinity for the life depicted...The text is now accessible in English: it can be read without a stumble, enjoyed and taken seriously. Not the least feature of this rewarding edition is Keith Bosley's witty and informative introduction. * Herbert Lomas *a valuable addition to the OUP World's Classics Series ... Bosley's version benefits from his deep knowledge of Finnish language and lore and his command of ethnic English, with its colloqualisms, that more than adequately, and often quite brilliantly, conspire to render the feel of the original with amazing fidelity. * Ossia Trilling, Stage & Television Today *The Kalevala is a fabulous narrative spiced with exotic images and much hilarity. * Jennifer Cooke, Melbourne Sunday Herald *Bosley evokes quite powerfully the otherness of the poem's ancient underpinnings. * Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books *
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Dover Publications Inc. An Ideal Husband
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Samuel French Ltd Lights Over Tesco Car Park
Book SynopsisBasically, Robert reported lights over the Tesco car park. Then he told us an alien was coming to stay in his spare room. With the help of some historical abduction stories, a latex alien mask, and a bucket of fl ying saucers, we’re working out whether to believe him.Maybe this is a good place to believe him?Maybe you can help?Developed in association with The North Wall, supported by New Diorama Theatre and The Yard Theatre.“Poltergeist Theatre is making a name for itself as witty, whacky theatremakers with an electric, experimental edge”THE STAGESAMUEL FRENCH NEW PLAY AWARD WINNER 2018NSDF OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE 2018NSDF COMMENDATION IN DIRECTING 2018
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Selected Poems Paper Only 66 New Directions
Book SynopsisEzra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English."
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Nightboat Books Surge
Book SynopsisA new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York Times recently described as the “meditative heir to Nietzsche’s aphorisms, Rilke’s Book of Hours and the verses of Sufi mysticism.” She writes: “Reality is messianic/apocalyptic/ my soul is my terror.”Trade Review"Surge, as the title suggests, is a book awash in movement: the movement of mind, of time and of memory. It presents an old poet at home, at night, roving through her recollections of dead or dying friends, landscapes passed through or lost. She muses on unresolvable ideas that have flickered at the edge of perception for countless sleepless nights."—Ian Malaney, The Irish Times""In perception, redemption,” Adnan declares in this assemblage of mystical, metaphysical ideas and aphorisms, often in conversation with the dead. “We have to say yes to that fate,” she writes of mortality, “and it’s hard, the hardest."" —Matt Flegenheimer, The New York Times"Adnan’s poetics brings the feminine power of the undetermined, casting language around what cannot, ultimately, be made certain. With skill, she uses words to obscure fixed notions of what it is to be a person, to experience pain, to think about it, and refracts thought matter back to the light of the moon. “That kind of motion,” she writes, “alters the world.”"—Alisha Mascarenhas, Poetry Project Newsletter #258"Rather than pin down or bemoan our lack of perceptual surety, Adnan builds a nebula for readers to drift about. Her pages are a place for us to submerge, to question ourselves and each other even as we want to reach out and affirm that yes, we saw some nice fish down there—the colors really set off the light."—K.B. Thors, Lambda Literary"In Surge, a new book of (mostly) taut prose formations, what she is thinking about at 93 seems to be the whole range of life on earth, explored with a more palpable sense of mortality than perhaps she could have expressed at 43 or 53… The action of the book is like a sewing machine: jabbing deeply and decisively into a subject and then quickly moving on."—Katharine Coldiron, VIDA"By looking out at the universe, we are looking into ourselves. By naming that shimmering, we are piecing ourselves together. Adnan has given us a new way of thinking through ourselves and the world, our place in the universe."—Emma Ramadan, Full Stop"As a wave does. Of the sea, of emotion, of thinking. Meaning crests, blinks, and submits to the vast and chaotic flow of thought. Nothing stays. The workings of the mind keep happening. Etel Adnan’s long poem, Surge, published through Nightboat Press this summer, attunes to such a motion; humbling itself to the forces beyond a singular subjectivity. It is a philosophical succession of aphoristic thoughts, turning its reader in on herself and back out again; visiting questions of being, of perception, with the rigour of a thinker who has lived a deeply curious life."—Alisha Mascarenhas, The Poetry Project Newsletter
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Manga Classics Romeo and Juliet
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Artbook D.A.P. The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt
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Faber & Faber Making History
Book SynopsisThe central character of this play is Hugh O''Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale, at which the alliance was defeated: with O''Neill at home in Dungannon, as a fugitive in the mountains, and finally exiled in Rome. In his handling of this momentous episode Brian Friel has avoided the conventions of ''historical drama'' to produce a play about history, the continuing process.
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Faber & Faber Tom Stoppard Plays 4 Dalliance Undiscovered
Book SynopsisThis fourth volume of Tom Stoppard''s work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (Dalliance and Undiscovered Country), Ferenc Molnar (Rough Crossing), Johann Nestroy (On the Razzle) and Anton Chekhov (The Seagull).
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HarperCollins Publishers Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with Pearl and
Book Synopsis A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. Trade Review‘The introduction to Gawain is a little masterpiece.’Times Higher Educational Supplement ‘This magnificent Arthurian tale of love, sex, honour, social tact, personal integrity and folk-magic is one of the greatest and most approachable narrative poems in the language. Tolkien’s version makes it come triumphantly alive, a moving and consoling elegy.’Birmingham Post
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Vintage Publishing Macbeth
Book Synopsis*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**No 1 Sunday Times bestseller*''Immensely enjoyable and gloriously dark'' Daily ExpressHe''s the best cop they''ve got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it''s up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He''s also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He''s rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They''re all within reach. But a man like him won''t get to the top.Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He''s convinced he won''t get what is rightfully his. Unless he kills for it. ''A deliciously oppressive page-turner'' GuardianWatch out for The Jealousy Man, the new Jo Nesbo book, out nowTrade ReviewMajestically satisfying...a deliciously oppressive page-turner -- Steven Poole * Guardian *Immensely enjoyable and gloriously dark... He has accomplished that toughest of literary feats: putting his own unmistakable mark on one of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays -- Matt Gibson * Daily Express *Inventive and deeply satisfying... a dark but ultimately hopeful Macbeth, one suited to our own troubled times -- James Shapiro * New York Times Book Review *Nesbo makes excellent use of all the atmosphere of his genre, and the stakes at play are every bit as convincing as those in the original... This is Nesbo doing what he's good at -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *Macbeth as a SWAT team leader. His wife as a former prostitute. The three witches as drug dealers. It's Shakespeare's darkest tale -- reimagined by the king of Nordic noir -- Graeme Thomson * Mail on Sunday *
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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 Putnam Inc The Crucible
Book SynopsisA haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural communityA Penguin Classic I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history, Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violen
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Penguin Putnam Inc Much Ado About Nothing
Book SynopsisThe repackaging of the acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series continues with more dazzling new covers to excite Shakespearians of all ages
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Penguin Putnam Inc Antony and Cleopatra
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in award-winning modern covers to inspire Shakespearians of all ages.
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Columbia University Press Selected Poems of Du Fu
Book SynopsisThe poems of Du Fu (712-77) had a diverse range of subject matter, from personal detail to historical fact, expressed with a richness of language that stretched from the elegant to the colloquial, and from the allusive to the direct. This selection includes both famous and lesser-known works.Table of ContentsChronology Introduction Poems
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Random House USA Inc Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Sir Orfeo
Book SynopsisThree masterpieces of medieval poetry, translated by the author of The Lord of the Rings—including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the poem that inspired the major motion picture The Green Knight Comparable to the works of Chaucer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo weave a bright tapestry of stories from a remote age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests—but unlike The Canterbury Tales, the name of the poet who wrote them is lost to time. Masterfully translated from the original Middle English by J.R.R. Tolkien, the language of these great poems comes to life for modern readers. At the center of this collection is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a tale as lush and dark as England’s medieval forests. Mixing romance and adventure, Sir Gawain follows King Arthur’s most noble knight on an adventure of epic enchantment, temptation, and destiny.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Faithful and Virtuous Night
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the fearless (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prizewinning poetLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 19622012 was hailed as a major event in this country''s literature in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception.You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it''s the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight''s undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you''ve always known, that first primer where on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball
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Random House USA Inc The Colossus
Book SynopsisWith this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. • [Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows. --Joyce Carol Oates,The New York Times In such classics as The Beekeeper's Daughter, The Disquieting Muses, I Want, I Want, and Full Fathom Five, she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.
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Alfred A. Knopf Stags Leap
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WW Norton & Co Adrienne Rich Later Poems Selected and New
Book SynopsisThe final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.
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WW Norton & Co Language for a New Century
Book SynopsisA landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Antigone
Book SynopsisAntigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. One of the masterpieces of the modern French stage.Trade Review"Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." Director, Peter Brook
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Churchill Plays 1
Book SynopsisFormerly part of the World Dramatists series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, World Classics.Trade ReviewCloud Nine ... ought now to be established as one of the great psycho-sexual comedies of the 20th century. Evening Standard Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine is the cleverist, drollest, most sexily experimental exercise in "compare and contrast" that British theatre has probably ever seen. Daily Telegraph This is the play that established Caryl Churchill as the most imaginatively daring of our major dramatists; and, nearly 30 years after its premiere, it still seems not only remarkably inventive but as sharp about the contradictions of gender as anything that has been written since. The TimesTable of ContentsOwners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Plays 3 Glengarry Glen Ross Prairie Du Chien The
Book SynopsisThe third in a series of World Classics presenting David Mamet's stage plays. Those in this volume date from the 1980s.Table of ContentsGlengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; The Shawl; Speed-the-Plow
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC McDonagh Plays 1 The Beauty Queen of Leenane A
Book SynopsisOne of the most exciting young dramatists to emerge in Britain during the 1990s. His three most important plays in one volumeTable of ContentsThe Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull of Connemara; The Lonesome West
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 4.48 Psychosis
Book SynopsisThis work is the last play by Sarah Kane, the controversial contemporary British playwright, who died aged 28 in February 1999. A single voice, dragged through therapy and endless medication, reveals the true experience of clinical depression.Trade Review'Is it possible, asks the text, for a person to be born in the wrong body, at the wrong time? Yes, is the answer. But sometimes, from that agony, a great soul can wrestle something as beautiful and true as this remarkable play.' Scotsman (4 November 2008) '4.48 Psychosis still feels immediate, intimate and raw - if anything, the onward march of our confessional culture has made it feel even more contemporary.' Aleks Sierz, Tribune, 7.8.09 'Sarah Kane's last play, written before she killed herself 10 years ago, has been described as a theatrical suicide note. That sells it short. It is so much more: a manifesto for living by one about to die.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 25.7.09 'an extraordinary exploration of the human condition, and of psychological disintegration in particular. It exposes the terrifying clarity of the acute depressive's unblinking certainty that their existence is intolerable and can never be otherwise; the play's title refers to Kane's early morning moments of such cruel lucidity.' Sam Marlowe, The Times, 28.7.09 'Kane's fractured poetry, lacerating in its anguish and devil-driven dark humour' Sam Marlowe, The Times, 28.7.09
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University of California Press The Maximus Poems
Book SynopsisThis work brings together the three volumes of Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968 and 1975 respectively) in one book.
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University of California Press Purgatory
Book SynopsisRecords the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Pinochet's military dictatorship (1973-1990). This offers an anguished response to Chile's violent history.Trade Review"An exciting literary event." Publishers Weekly "Important and dynamic... Every young poet ... needs to read and study this book. The lessons found here will redefine poetic commitment." The Bloomsbury Review "Zurita is seen by many to be the most important poet in Chile and the inheritor of Neruda's legacy... An important book." Poetry Foundation/ Harriet "Beautifully produced, well translated, and as lyrically chilling as when it was first written in the shadow of Pinochet's ... dictatorship." MolossusTable of ContentsForeword by C. D. Wright Preface: Some Words for This Edition Purgatory Afterword by Anna Deeny Notes
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Faber & Faber Collected Shorter Poems 19271957
Book SynopsisW. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in modern poetry after T. S. Eliot.In his lifetime a controversial, outspoken, yet enigmatic, writer, Auden has gradually come to seem an intimate poet, as we have learned to read him correctly. This volume is the best possible introduction to his consummate craftsmanship and his unparalleled originality which made him the master-poet of his generation.
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Faber & Faber Station Island
Book SynopsisThe title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with ''the growth of a poet''s mind''. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet''s voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney.''Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.'' John Carey, Sunday Times
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Faber & Faber Collected Poems
Book SynopsisSince its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended: it is, for the first time, Larkin's 'own' collected poems.
£14.24
Faber & Faber Selected Poetry of John Clare
Book SynopsisThis is the first selection of the great Romantic ''peasant poet'' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his maturity to lunatic asylums.''Clare grabs hold of you - no, he doesn''t grab hold of you, he is already there, talking to you before you''ve arrived on the scene, telling you about himself, about the things that are closest and dearest to him, and it would no more occur to him to do otherwise than it would occur to Whitman to stop singing you his song of himself.'' John Ashbery''It is what Lawrence calls the poetry of the living present.'' Seamus HeaneyTrade Review'Clare grabs hold of you - no, he doesn't grab hold of you, he is already there, talking to you before you've arrived on the scene, telling you about himself, about the things that are closest and dearest to him, and it would no more occur to him to do otherwise than it would occur to Whitman to stop singing you his song of himself.' John Ashbery; 'It is what Lawrence calls the poetry of the living present.' Seamus Heaney
£13.49
Faber & Faber Attempts on Her Life Faber Drama
Book SynopsisAttempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying practitioner? Martin Crimps 17 scenarios for the theatre, shocking and hilarious by turn, are a rollercoaster of late 20th-century obsessions. From pornography and ethnic violence, to terrorism and unprotected sex, its strange array of nameless characters attempt to invent the perfect story to encapsulate our time. Since its premiere 10 years ago, Attempts on her Life has been translated into more than 20 languages. This is its first major UK revival. Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp
£10.44
