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Batsford Ltd A Happy Poem to End Every Day
Book Synopsis‘I can't think of a single person who wouldn't enjoy having this beautiful collection of poetry to dip into when they need a boost' – Good Housekeeping ‘This is supreme bedtime reading.’ – The Lady ‘Go to sleep with the lightest of hearts, with verses from Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope and more’ – Townswoman These days we're all in need of a little nugget of happiness to help soothe our weary souls at the end of the day. A Happy Poem to End Every Day provides just that: one sublimely happy poem for every day of the year, from cosy fireside idylls in winter to outdoor adventures in summer, encounters with the beauty of nature in spring and moments of quiet reflection in autumn. It features some of the greatest poets ever to put pen to paper, from William Wordsworth on the joy of skating and Emily Brontë enjoying life on the moors to Simon Armitage catching a cricket ball and Wendy Cope sharing an orange, with a good smattering of classic jolly verse such as Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat. Beautifully illustrated with contemplative scenes of pure happiness, this wonderful book is the perfect way to give yourself a little lift every evening. Keep it by your bedside and it's sure to bring restful sleep and sweet dreams.Trade Review‘Pop this book on your bedside table and create a lovely night time routine’ Psychologies ‘I can't think of a single person who wouldn't enjoy having this beautiful collection of poetry to dip into when they need a boost’ Good Housekeeping ‘A real joy’ Miranda Mills YouTube 'This wonderful compendium of poems, one for every day of the hear, has been curated to being a little light into the world. … It really is one of those rare gifts that keeps on giving.’ WI Life ‘Go to sleep with the lightest of hearts, with verses from Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope and more’ Townswoman ‘Beautifully produced and illustrated. The selection of poems is excellent. They are upbeat but not trite, and each one has a fresh and often unexpected take on wildly different experiences of joy … This is supreme bedtime reading.’ The LadyTable of ContentsJanuary: Winter Songs of Birds and Poets 10 February: Gather Round the Fire 46 March: Dancing in the Breeze 86 April: Blessing in the Air 122 May: The Country of Young Laughter 156 June: The Far Horizon Fading Away 194 July: Pleasant Be Thy Dreams 232 August: Feel the Sunshine 270 September: My Spirit is Soaring 308 October: The Golden Times 346 November: Twixt Air and Angels 386 December: Tidings of Comfort and Joy 426 Index of First Lines 464 Index of Poets 470 Acknowledgements 480
£21.25
Faber & Faber Blackbird
Book SynopsisFifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship.They haven''t set eyes on each other since.Now, years later, she''s found him again.Blackbird premiered at King''s Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, in August 2005, and transferred to the Albery Theatre in London''s West End in 2006. The production received the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. In 2007, the play opened simultaneously at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York and and at American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco.
£999.99
Enitharmon Press Christmas Poems
Book SynopsisFeatures Christmas poems from a range of years, in a range of styles.Trade Review'U. A. Fanthorpe is a national treasure. A new book from her is always a unique pleasure to be savoured for its truth, disconcerting obliqueness and even more disconcerting directness.' Liz Lochhead, Poetry Book Society Bulletin
£9.49
Faber & Faber 101 Sonnets
Book SynopsisPoets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has devised an anthology that is both a sharing of personal favourites and a celebration of high moments in the sonnet''s history. His introduction and wonderfully insightful notes provide a history and commentary that will prove illuminating to the casual reader and indispensable to the student or aspiring sonneteer.
£10.44
Oxford University Press Don Juan and Other Plays
Book SynopsisContains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the SchemerSince the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a decade has passed in which they have not been revived, imitated, or adapted; their appeal to twenty-first century audiences remains as great as to their initial public. This selection of seven of Moli`re''s prose plays shows his versatility and indicates the reason for his enduring popularity. Whether he writes in a strictly defined historical context (as in Precious Provincials or The Would-be Gentleman) or whether he sets his plays in an almost mythical world (as in Don Juan); whether his plays are exuberant celebrations of light heartedness, ingenuity, and wit (The Reluctant Doctor and Scapin the Schemer) or whether they come closer in spirit to black humour (The Miser and George Dandin), they remain as fresh and vivid as ever. ABOUT THE SERTable of ContentsDon Juan ; Precious Provincials ; The Reluctant Doctor ; George Dandin ; The Miser ; The Would-be Gentleman ; Scapin the Schemer
£10.79
Flapjack Press Poetic Off Licence
Book SynopsisSince running away from home at the age of 28, award winning writer Hovis Presley (the award wasn't for writing) has found fame as the inventor of the bra-less strap and the individually wrapped baked bean. His interests include postal kerplunk and choosing the 8 sandwiches he'd take to a desert island–currently 7 cheese and an egg mayonnaise.Trade Review“Never stops being funny.” – The Guardian; “Absolutely brilliant.” – Mark Radcliffe; “A slice of Real Loaf.” – John Hegley; “Ooooph!” – John Shuttleworth; “The other day I met Hovis Presley, a fine poet and a true gentleman. So I had a drink with all three of them.” – John Cooper Clarke
£9.50
Oxford University Press Tales of Glass Town Angria and Gondal
Book Synopsis''We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.''In their collaborative early writings the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott, and Byron, whose feuds, alliances, and love affairs weave an intricate web of social and political intrigue in imaginary colonial lands in Africa and the Pacific Ocean. The writings of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal are youthful experiments in imitation and parody, wild romance and realistic recording; they demonstrate the playful literary world that provided a ''myth kitty'' for their early - and later - work.In this generous selection the writings of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell are presented together for the first time. The Introduction explores the rich imaginative lives of the Brontës, and the tension between thTrade ReviewIn short, no student of the Bronte¤ s and indeed Victorian literature should be without Christine Alexanders edition. * William Baker, Years Work in English Studies *Extraordinary... Christine Alexander's imaginative and meticulous editing makes the juvenilia accessible for the first time. * Samantha Ellis, Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating piece of juvenilia. * Colin Waters, Sunday Herald *
£11.69
Pan Macmillan Something New
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Vintage Publishing Autobiography of Red
Book SynopsisAnne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the T. S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Prize, on two occasions, fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2020.Trade ReviewLike all of Anne Carson's writing, this book is amazing - I haven't discovered any writing in years that's so marvellously disturbing. I just feel so happy that she's around -- Alice MunroHer work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. The poems play with character and plot, myth and magic; they are rich with attitude and wit and the undertow of grief. If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius -- Colm Tóibín * Times Literary Supplement *Anne Carson has created, from fragments of the Greek poet Stesichoros, a profound love story...forty-seven compulsively readable long-lined poems of intense cinematic detail. Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted -- Ruth Padel * New York Times Book Review *Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer. Autobiography of Red, which perhaps comes closest to representing the range of her voice and gifts, is a spellbinding achievement -- Susan Sontag
£13.50
Dover Publications Inc. Leaves of Grass
Book SynopsisThe most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman''s immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece Song of Myself. Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature.
£5.62
Penguin Books Ltd Islamic Mystical Poetry
Book SynopsisWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that develop many of the central ideas of Sufism: the Lover, the Beloved, the Wine, and the Tavern; while others are more personal and echo the poet''s battle to leave earthly love behind. These translations capture the passion of the original poetry and are accompanied by an introduction on Sufism and the common themes apparent in the works. This edition also includes suggested further reading.
£11.69
Pan Macmillan The Bees
Book Synopsis‘Swooningly glorious’ The Times‘Indisputably her best volume’ Sunday TimesThe Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and – most movingly – the poet’s own mother. Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy’s subject, sometimes it strays into the poem, or hovers at its edge. In the end, Duffy’s point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. The Bees, at once intimate and public, is a work of great power from one of our most cherished poets.Trade ReviewBeautiful and moving poetry for the real world -- Jeanette Winterson * Guardian *Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of language * Sunday Telegraph *Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself * Scotsman *
£10.44
Faber & Faber Circle Mirror Transformation
Book SynopsisThanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start.Five lost people come together at a community centre class to try and find some meaning in their lives. Counting to ten can be harder than you think. Over six tangled weeks their lives become knotted together in this tender and funny play.Annie Baker''s Circle Mirror Transformation won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by the New York Times, Time Out and the New Yorker. It premiered in the UK as part of the Royal Court''s Theatre Local strand of site specific productions across London.Trade ReviewThe way that a complete picture of each of the characters is built up is stunningly accurate. A little room sucks in the whole world -- Aleks Sierz The Arts Desk A disarming surprise... remarkably open-minded in its supple, low-key way, shifting from the preposterous to the poignant, the tender to the silly, with a sharply observant but uncensorious spirit. -- Paul Taylor Independent Baker's writing is compassionate, cinematic (in an understated sort of way) and wonderfully, wonderfully droll. -- Andrzej Lukowski Time Out Baker is a perceptive observer of human frailty. -- Henry Hitchings Evening Standard A quirky, entertaining and quietly poignant piece... Scenes as apparently aimless as a group count-up to 10 or a dialogue improvised using nonsense words acquire a sudden powerful intensity as latent emotions bubble to the surface. -- Dominic Cavendish Daily Telegraph
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Faber & Faber The Letters of Seamus Heaney
Book SynopsisA marvellous book, lovingly edited, beautifully produced. . . and brimming with literary insights, much laughter, a sprinkle of gossip and the poet's insuppressible joie de vivre, even in adversity. Buy it, read it, and keep it to hand on to your children.' John Banville, GuardianAn epistolary cornucopia. . . contains an abundance of insight and illumination, literary gossip and appraisal, playfulness and cogency, all bound up with a steadfast attention to the feelings and expectations of each correspondent.' Patricia Craig, TLS Books of the YearEvery now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the blackbird calls, the soul settles for an hour or two . . .For all his public eminence, Seamus Heaney seems never to have lost the compelling need to write personal letters. In this ample but discriminating selection from fifty years of his correspondence, we are given access as never before to the life and poetic development of a literary titan from his early days in Belfast, through his controversial decision to settle in the Republic, to the gradual broadening of horizons that culminated in the award of a Nobel Prize and the years of international acclaim that kept him heroically busy until his death.Editor Christopher Reid draws from both public and private archives to reveal this story in the poet's own words. Generous, funny, exuberant, confiding, irreverent, empathetic and deeply thoughtful, the letters encompass decades-long relationships with friends and colleagues, as well as showing an unstinted responsiveness to passing acquaintances. Moreover, Heaney's joyous mastery of language is as evident here as it is in any of his writing for a literary readership.Listening to Heaney's voice, we find ourselves in the same room as a man whose presence, when he lived, enriched the world immeasurably, and whose legacy continues to deepen our sense of what truly matters.
£32.00
Central Avenue Publishing Persephone Made Me Do It
Book SynopsisBestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another mythical approach to self-care in her newest poetry collection, Persephone Made Me Do It. Following her previous work in this series, Mateer weaves together mythology, tarot, poetry, and conversation to reveal a new side of a very old story. Alternating between the perspectives of poet and goddess, Persephone’s lore is explored, related to modern issues, and ultimately reclaimed.“You want to talk about duality? You want to talk about love? Let us speak instead of chaos.”In this new collection of art and feminist verse from Trista Mateer, Persephone might have flowers in her hair—but she is out for blood.
£12.71
Simon & Schuster Ltd In the Footsteps of Du Fu
Book Synopsis'Superb... Beautifully written and thoroughly researched' - Guardian A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, war and huge upheaval, yet his secular philosophical vision, combined with his empathy for the common folk of his nation, ensured that he soon became revered. Like Shakespeare or Dante, his poetry resonates in a timeless manner that ensures it is always relevant and offers something new to the modern generation. Now, in this beautifully illustrated book, broadcaster and historian Michael Wood follows in his footsteps to try to understand the places that inspired Du Fu to write some of the most famous and best-loved poetry the world has known. The themes he wrote about – friendship, family, human suffering – are universal and in our troubled times areTrade Review'Superb... Beautifully written and thoroughly researched.' * Guardian *
£15.29
Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Poetry of Robert Burns
Book SynopsisQuintessentially Scottish, the poetry of Robert Burns has become famous across the world. With classics such as "Tam O''Shanter", "Auld Lang Syne", and "To a Louse", his work ranged seamlessly from powerful nationalist pieces to playful songs. His use of the vernacular gives a character to his verse that cannot be found anywhere else.Whether the subject is haggis or Halloween, Burns'' enthralling words bring to life the everyday, and the essential character of the Scottish people. His combination of Scottish folklore and literary tradition created some of the most remarkable poetry ever written.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Great Poets Library brings together moving and inspiring verse from some of the greatest poets in history, presented with beautiful new cover designs with graphic motifs.
£999.99
Penguin Books Ltd Layli and Majnun
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A highly engaging tale of impossible love . . . The first verse translation of the 12th-century Persian poet Nezami . . . Davis’s rhythmic translation is full of lush imagery.” ―Publishers Weekly“Nezami . . . paints a visionary world full of erotic tension and trepidation which is both sublimated and enriched with psychological chiaroscuro.” ―Italo Calvino
£12.59
Faber & Faber Selected Poems of Thom Gunn
Book SynopsisA beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunn's classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes.
£13.49
Nick Hern Books Oedipus
Book SynopsisSophocles' epic tragedy transformed into anessential, explosive humanthriller by visionary director Robert Icke.
£10.44
Samuel French Ltd The Woman in Black
Book SynopsisStephen Malatratt Based on the novel by Susan Hill. Drama/Thriller Characters: 2 male, 1 extra Bare stage The framework of this spine tingler is unusual: a lawyer hires an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that has long troubled him concerning events that transpired when he attended the funeral of an elderly recluse. There he caught sight of the woman in black, the mere mention of whom terrifies the locals, for she is a specter who haunts the neighborhood where her illegitimate child was accidentally killed. Anyone who sees her dies! The lawyer has invited some friends to watch as he and the actor recreate the events of that dark and stormy night. A classic of the genre. A real theatrical spine chiller. . . . A truly nerve shredding experience.- The Daily Mail Provides a pleasurable ripple of fear down one''s spine and an uncomfortable lurch in the pit of one''s stomach.-Time Out New York <
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Nick Hern Books Born With Teeth
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Penguin Books Ltd Sebald W After Nature
Book SynopsisAfter Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz''The greatest writer of our time'' Peter CareyAfter Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and brilliant writing journey. In this long prose poem, Sebald introduces many of the themes that he explores in his subsequent books. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, each of the three distinct parts of After Nature give centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W.G. Sebald himself.''A deeply intelligent book, but also a marvellously warm, exciting and compassionate one'' Andrew Motion''A début of rare poetic grandeur'' Irish Times''Astonishing writing. A true poet at work'' Evening Standard''Graceful, allusive, serious, but also immensely readable'' Sunday Telegraph''When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm'' Literary ReviewW . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now and A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.Trade Review'A deeply intelligent book, but also a marvellously warm and intelligent one' Andrew Motion
£9.49
Oxford University Press The Tale of Sinuhe
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewClassicists interested in the development of ancient lyric and epic will find plenty to enjoy in Parkinson's elegant and subtle collection of translations of the principal Egyptian literary texts dating to the period known as the Middle Kingdom ... His beautiful translations and thorough, informative yet unobtrusive commentaries work together to convey strongly the poetic qualities of the Egyptian originals ... Parkinson has produced a book of lasting value here, whose high quality and easy yet authoritative presentation will make these too-long-obscure poems accessible to a wider audience in comparative literary studies, and (I hope) beyond. * Dominic Montserrat, The Classical Review *
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Book SynopsisThis elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour, features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's.The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of tTrade 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
£56.25
Harpercollins Doggy Positivity
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers No Safe Place
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Vintage Publishing Song of Myself
Book SynopsisWalt Whitman was born on 31 May 1819 in Long Island, New York. Without much formal education, he began work at an early age as an office boy, printer and school teacher. His first major collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass, was self-published in 1855. During the American Civil War, Whitman volunteered as a nurse at military hospitals in Washington, and his experiences inspired his next collection, Drum-Taps, published in 1865, and Memoranda During the War (1875). Whitman was an ardent Democrat, and wrote several poems to Abraham Lincoln, including O Captain! My Captain'. His poetry was seen by many as immoral, and was the cause of his dismissal from a post as clerk in the Department of the Interior, but he won praise from his contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and his work was enthusiastically received by poetic circles in England. Having survived a paralysing stroke in 1873, Whitman left Washington for Camden, New Jersey, where heTrade ReviewGrand but intimate, earthy but also dreamy * Observer *Whitman had a fluid personality that made him able to ''merge'' invisibly, and with great empathy, with the images of other people and events that lodged in his mind...unprecedented assembling of rhythm, sound, language and images * New York Times *The great unrhymed, long-lined, self-celebratory sensation of the 1850s * Lost Angeles Times *
£8.54
Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisRS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century, but the 270 poems he chose for this definitive selection reveal a wide range of themes and concerns. He was a passionate Welsh patriot, but also an outspoken critic of his countrymen. His poems are an expression of his lifelong argument with himself, of his insistent search for God. In them he grapples with ideas of Welshness, with issues of technology, pollution, the decline of culture. He wrote too about love, about landscape, nature and birds. His is an urgent, prophetic and unique voice.
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poetry
Book SynopsisLiving in a revolutionary age, Coleridge''s poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry (''Kubla Khan'') and his ballads (''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''), but he used and transformed a variety of verse forms, from the sonnet to the conversation poem, on subjects as diverse as nature, love, and politics. This selection calls attention to the range of Coleridge''s work, its strong autobiographical content,and its artistic development throughout his career. The old chronological form has been abandoned and the poems are organised according to genre, with each section displaying its own individual development in craft and theme.
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Penguin Books Ltd William Wordsworth Selected Poems
Book SynopsisOne of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as ''Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'', ''Tintern Abbey'', ''I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'', ''Lucy Gray'', and ''Michael''. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth''s astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.Table of ContentsWilliam Wordsworth: Selected PoemsChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the TextsSelected PoemsOld Man TravellingThe Ruined CottageA Night-PieceThe Old Cumberland BeggarLines Written at a Small Distance from my HouseGoody Blake and Harry GillThe ThornThe Idiot BoyLines Written in Early SpringAnecdote for FathersWe Are SevenExpostulation and ReplyThe Tables TurnedLines Written a Few Miles above Tintern AbbeyThe FountainThe Two April Mornings'A slumber did my spirit seal'Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')'Strange fits of passion I have known'Lucy GrayNutting'Three years she grew in sun and shower'The BrothersHart-Leap Wellfrom Home at Grasmerefrom Poems on the Naming of Places To Joanna 'A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags'Michael'I travelled among unknown Men'To a Sky-LarkAlice FellBeggarsTo a Butterfly ('Stay near me')To the Cuckoo'My heart leaps up when i behold'To H. C., Six Years Old'Among all lovely things my Love had been'To a Butterfly ('I've watched you')Resolution and Independence'Within our happy Castle there dwelt one''The world is too much with us''With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh''Dear Native Brooks your ways have i pursued''Great Men have been among us''It is not to be thought of that the Flood''When I have borne in memory what has tamed''England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean'Composed by the Seas-Side, near Calais'It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free'To Toussaint L'OuvertureComposed in the Valley, near Dover, on the Day of LandingComposed Upon Westminster BridgeLondon, 1802'Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room'Yarrow Unvisited'She was a Phantom of delight'Ode to DutyOde: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'Stepping WestwardThe Solitary ReaperElegiac StanzasA ComplaintGipsiesSt. Paul's'Surprised by joy—impatient asthe Wind'Yew-TreesComposed at Cora LinnYarrow VisitedTo R. B. Haydon, Esq. ('High is our calling, Friend!')Sequel to the Foregoing (Beggars)Ode: Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendor and BeautyThe River Duddon: Conclusion'The unremitting voice of nightly streams'Airey-Force ValleyExtempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg'Glad sight wherever new with old'At Furness Abbey'I know an aged Man constrained to dwell'from The Prelude Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIII Book IX Book X Book XI Book XII Book XIIINotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines
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Penguin Books Ltd The Prelude The Four Texts 1798 1799 1805 1850
Book SynopsisFirst published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth''s death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme ''the growth of a poet''s mind'': leading the reader back to Wordsworth''s formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge''s exhortation that Wordsworth write a work upon the French Revolution, The Prelude has ultimately become one of the finest examples of poetic autobiography ever written; a fascinating examination of the self that also presents a comprehensive view of the poet''s own creative vision.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Lais of Marie De France
Book SynopsisMarie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts. De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband.
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Penguin Books Ltd Three Poets of the First World War Penguin
Book SynopsisAn essential new collection of poetry from the First World WarThis indispensable anthology brings together the works of three major poets from the First World War. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a classical music composer and poet who published two volumes of poems, Severn and Somme and War's Embers. Wilfred Owen's (1893- 1918) realistic poetry is remarkable for its details of war and combat. Isaac Rosenberg's (1890-1918) Poems from the Trenches is widely considered one of the finest examples of war poetry from the period. Carefully selected by Jon Stallworthy, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, these poems comprise a landmark publication that reflects the disparate experiences of war through the voices of the soldiers themselves.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics r
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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
Book SynopsisPoetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.
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Penguin Books Ltd Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense Collected Poems
Book SynopsisCollects together the range of the author's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. This title also includes: "The Walrus and the Carpenter", "The Mock Turtle's Song", "Father William" and more.Trade ReviewOpening at random Gillian Beer's new edition of Lewis Carroll's poems, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense, guarantees a pleasurable experience - not all of it nonsensical -- Michael Caines * Times Literary Supplement *This is an elegant volume, likely to delight enthusiasts, while introducing Lewis Carroll's poetry to a younger readership. The poems are set out chronologically following a generous, thoughtful introduction from the esteemed Cambridge critic Gillian Beer... Beer has done an admirable job, and this edition will appeal to readers of all ages -- Alexandra Lawrie * Times Literary Supplement *
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Penguin Books Ltd Wade in the Water
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018A New York Times Notable Book of 2018Even the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against, if not love''s bladeSizing up the heart''s familiar meat?In Wade in the Water, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith''s signature voice - inquisitive, lyrical and wry - turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence. The various connotations of the title, taken from a spiritual once sung on the Underground Railroad which smuggled slaves to safety in 19th-century America, resurface throughout the book, binding past and present together. Collaged voices and documents recreate both the correspondence between slave owners and the letters sent home by African Americans enlisted in the US Civil War. Survivors'' reports attest to the exTrade ReviewSmith's new book is scorching in both its steady cognizance of America's original racial sins . . . and apprehension about history's direction. . . . These historical poems have a homely, unvarnished sort of grace * The New York Times *The poems in Wade in the Water are full of memorable images nimbly put together by Smith's exquisite sense of timing and her feel for the kind of language appropriate to the poem. * The New York Times Book Review *Smith brings great intelligence and sensitivity to her poems, leading readers deeper into other people's stories and ultimately into their own humanity. * The Washington Post *Smith's poetry is an awakening itself * Vogue *In lines that are as lyrical as they are wise . . . Smith makes connections between the current state of American culture and its history * BuzzFeed *Smith is the country's poetic caretaker, calling both for collective reckoning and collective empathy * The Atlantic *On a craft level, these poems are impeccable. . . . I know brilliance when I read it and this book is brilliant -- Roxane GayFor Smith, poetry is hospitable: accommodating whatever she is moved to write. Her work witnesses, protests and raises its own roof. . . . Smith emerges as a poet in charge of her own creation myth and a recorder of destructive realities * The Observer *Her work witnesses, protests and raises its own roof.... Excellent and bracing -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *Powerful and tender * Elle *Unmissable... a collection of poems exploring what it means to be a woman and a citizen in a culture directed by wealth, men and violence * Stylist *Personal and ambitious * Porter *
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Oxford University Press Four Revenge Tragedies
Book SynopsisThe Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd''s The Spanish Tragedy helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger''s Tragedy, published anonymously and ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman''s The Revenge of Bussy D''Ambois and Tourneur''s The Atheist''s Tragedy appeared soon after. Each of the four plays printed here defines the problems of the revenge genre, often by exploiting its conventions in unexpected directions. All deal with fundamental moral questions about the meaning of justice and the lengths to which victimized individuals may go to obtain it, while registering the strains of life in a rigid but increasingly fragile social hierarchy. Under the General Editoriship of Dr Michael Cordner, of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, Table of ContentsThe Spanish Tragedy ; The Revenger's Tragedy ; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois ; The Atheist's Tragedy
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Oxford University Press The Iliad
Book Synopsis''War, the bringer of tears...''For 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles'' anger and Hector''s death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked by a quarrel between the leader of the Greek army and its mightiest warrior, Achilles, is played out between mortals and gods, with devastating human consequences. It is a story of many truths, speaking of awesome emotions, the quest for fame and revenge, the plight of women, and the lighthearted laughter of the gods. Above all, it confronts us with war in all its brutality - and with fleeting images of peace, which punctuate the poem as distant memories, startling comparisons, and doomed aspirations. The Iliad''s extraordinary power testifies to the commitment of its many readers, who have turned to it in their own struggles to understand life and death. This elegant and compelling new translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes that guide the reader in understanding theTrade ReviewHomer's epic [is] unpredictably and achingly beautiful. * Nadia Rogers, Irish Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book Synopsis''Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it'' The New York Times Book ReviewSelf-educated, intense, impulsive and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century Russia as a poetic virtuoso, recognized by such greats as Anna Akhmatova as their worthy heir. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, the poems in this volume unfold the project that, as Brodsky saw it, the condition of exile presented: ''to set the next man - however theoretical he and his needs may be - a bit more free.''This edition includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur and Anthony Hecht, and poems written in English or translated by the author himself. It surveys Brodsky''s tumultuous life and illustrious career, and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Edited and introduced by Ann Kjellberg
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Yale University Press 100 Poets
Book SynopsisA wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of PoetryTrade Review“Enthusiasm for the underdog is infectious. . . . It reveals a sensitivity in Carey’s aesthetic, a rejection of the sentimental and the highbrow in favour of the lyrical, the melancholy and the divine. It’s what ultimately ties the book together, and lends a profound emotional weight to the intellectual rigour.”—Andrew Male, Sunday Times“Reading poetry is a perfect commuter pastime, but can feel intimidating. Where to start? Perhaps with this gentle, welcoming anthology by this paper’s chief literary critic, which offers one emblematic poem, and a brief introduction, for 100 poets.”—Sunday Times“100 Poets is a good anthology to dip into or to read straight through, like I did. Whatever your experience of poetry, I think you’ll find something here to enjoy.”—David’s Book World“Professor John Carey has rounded up a collection of his favourite 100 poets, from Homer to Sylvia Plath, covering the familiar and the less common. . . . A bedside-table book of portable proportions and in durable hardback.”—Lucy Lethbridge, The Oldie Christmas Gift Guide
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Clarion Books Dear Acorn Love Oak
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Theatre Communications Group Fall on Your Knees
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Theatre Communications Group Queen Goneril
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Dover Publications Inc. Poems of Sappho
Book SynopsisPlato hailed her as the Tenth Muse, and 2,500 years later her voice remains dazzling as well as direct and honest. The lyric poetry of Sappho sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of her surviving works features an Introduction by translator J. M. Edmonds, who supervised the Sappho volume published by Harvard University''s Loeb Classical Library.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd God of Vengeance The Rise of Sigurd 1 A thrilling
Book SynopsisA glorious, bloody, perfect Viking saga of honour, courage, blood feud and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lancelot, Giles Kristian. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Games of Thrones.Unrelenting pace, brilliant action and characters. A masterwork. - CONN IGGULDENAction-packed storytelling which stirs the blood and thrills the soul - WILBUR SMITHEasily one of the best books I''ve had the pleasure to read - ***** Reader review.*******************************************************************************IT BEGAN WITH THE BETRAYAL OF A LORD BY A KING...Norway 785 AD. When King Gorm puts Jarl Harald''s family to the sword, he makes one fatal mistake - he fails to kill Harald''s youngest son, Sigurd.His kin slain, his village seized, his taken as slaves, Sigurd wonders if the gods have forsaken him. Hunted by powerful men, he is unsure who to trust and yet he has a small band of loyal followers at his side. With them - and with the help of the All-Father, Odin - he determines to make a king pay for his treachery.Using cunning and war-craft, Sigurd gathers together a fellowship of warriors - including his father''s right-hand man Olaf, Bram (who men call Bear), Black Floki who wields death with a blade, and the shield maiden Valgerd, who fears no man - and convinces them to follow him. For, whether Ódin is with him or not, Sigurd WILL have vengeance. And neither men nor gods had best stand in his way . . .Sigurd''s story continues in Winter''s Fire.Trade ReviewAction-packed storytelling which stirs the blood and thrills the soul * WILBUR SMITH *What elevates Kristian above the many pretenders to Cornwell's crown is the style and swagger of the prose. He is a modern skald, borrowing the old rhythms to create a brutal, absorbing tale -- Antonia Senior * THE TIMES 'Books of the Year' *Unrelenting pace, brilliant action and characters. A masterwork. * CONN IGGULDEN *A glorious, bloody, perfect Viking saga, rich with the poetry of the skald, ripe with blood and glory, vengeance and heartbreak. The characters stride from the page, alive, hungry, real . . . this is Viking writing at its very best * MANDA SCOTT *This is the best kind of storytelling – a saga full of blood and thunder that grabs you and doesn’t let go until long after the final page is turned * STEVEN PRESSFIELD *A pulse-pounding tale of blood, betrayal and honour. Hereward and his spear-brothers would definitely feel at home here * JAMES WILDE *A great success . . . His knowledge of the period, and imaginative immersion in it, mean that God of Vengeance conjures up Sigurd's bloody, violent world, with all its alien beliefs and strange customs, in vivid and compelling detail -- Nick Rennison * BBC HISTORY *Epic in character, atmosphere and deed . . . Kristian is a terrific storyteller . . . the writing and language are wonderfully rich, and you want to savour every bone-shattering, blood-curdling, sentence * TOBY CLEMENTS *A revenger's tale writ large . . . Kristian's latest Viking-era saga won't disappoint * DAILY MAIL *A pulsating saga delivered with the sweep and power of a Norse war axe -- TIM SEVERIN
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Faber & Faber Door into the Dark
Book SynopsisWith the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author's rural upbringing, from the local forge to the banks of Lough Neagh, concluding in the preserving waters of the bogland and a look ahead to his next book, Wintering Out (1972).
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