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Wits University Press Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating: Three
Book SynopsisCupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection from one of South Africa's leading playwrights and novelists. The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which the protagonist gets his come-uppance. You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief, traceable throughout Mda's work, that government by those who inherit a revolution is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two, hi-jacked by the smart operators. The Bells of Amersfoort, with its graphic portrayal of the isolation imposed by exile, picks up on the themes of the other two plays, but adds to them the concept of 'healing', both of the soul and of the land, in a lyrical work which holds out more hope than do its companions in this volume. The plays are introduced by Rob Amato, who directed much of Mda's earlier work.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Mother of all Eating You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? The Bells of Amersfoort
£17.00
Penguin Random House Group Beowulf
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£6.28
Carcanet Press Ltd Collected Poems and Verse of the Austen Family
Book SynopsisThis volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, and her nephew James Edward.
£9.49
Carcanet Press Ltd Lost Lunar Baedeker Poetry Pleiade
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£17.99
MCCM Creations Fly Heads and Bird Claws
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£13.29
Taylor & Francis Things Merely Are
Book SynopsisThis book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above all, he agues for a ''poetic epistemology'' that enables us to think afresh the philosophical problem of the relation between mind and world, and ultimately to cast the problem away.Drawing astutely on Kant, the German and English Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, guitars, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the ''mereness'' of things. It is this experience, he shows, that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality. Critchley also argues that this calm defines the cTrade Review'Things Merely Are is very much a manifesto that aims to break the frame of philosophical thinking within the English-speaking tradition. And in the bargain Critchley gives us a fresh reading of Wallace Steven's work that academic literary criticism desperately needs. My hope is that this book is not just a one-trick pony but the opening of a philosophical investigation into literary modernism.' - Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements, Abbreviations of works by Wallace Stevens, Advice to the reader, 1. Or so we say – twenty-one propositions, 2. Poetry, philosophy and life as it is, 3. Sudden rightnesses, 4. Wallace Stevens’s intimidating thesis, 5. The twofold task of poetry, 6. The thing itself and its seasons, Conclusion, Afterword: Calm – on Terrence Malick, Thanks, Notes, Bibliography, Index
£36.09
Alfred A. Knopf The Beauty
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£15.16
Faber & Faber Neil LaBute Plays 2
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£17.09
University of California Press The Poems of Hesiod
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Spelling, the Pronunciation of Ancient Names, and Map References Maps General Introduction: Hesiod and His Poems Introduction to the Theogony Theogony Introduction to the Works and Days Works and Days Introducton to The Shield of Herakles The Shield of Herakles Bibliography Glossary / Index ILLUSTRATIONS Maps 1. The Mediterranean 2. The Aegean Sea 3. Central Greece Figures 1. Drunken symposiast and lyre 2. Anatolian storm god 3. Zeus throwing lightning at Typhon 4. A Muse playing the lyre 5. The birth of Aphrodite 6. Amphitritê stands before Poseidon 7. The head of Medusa 8. The Chimaira 9. The punishment of Atlas and Prometheus 10. Hades and Persephone 11. Zeus fights Typhon 12. Dawn pursues the Trojan prince Tithonos 13. Egyptian relief of Maat 14. Pandora born from the Earth 15. The Cretan princess Ariadnê and Retribution 16. A naked plowman 17. A winged North Wind (Boreas) rapes Oreithyia 18. A satyr presents a tripod with handles to Dionysos 19. The theater and reconstructed columns of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi 20. The Lapith Kaineus being destroyed by a centaur 21. A centaur tries to carry off Hippodameia 22. The Gorgons pursue Perseus 23. Zeus parts Athena and Ares Genealogical Charts 1. The primordial gods 2. The children of Earth and Sky 3. The off spring of Earth and the blood of Sky and the birth of Aphroditê 4. The descendants of Night (Nyx) and Strife (Eris) 5. The descendants Earth and Sea 6. The descendants of Phorkys and Keto 7. Other descendants of Phorkys and Keto 8. The children of Okeanos and Tethys 9. The descendants of Th eia and Hyperion and Kreios and Eurybia 10. The children of Pallas and Styx 11. The descendants of Koios and Phoibê 12. The children of Kronos and Rhea 13. The descendants of Iapetos and Klymenê 14. The off spring of Zeus and his many wives 15. The descendants of Ares and Aphrodite 16. The descendants of Helios and Perseïs 17. Other children of Kadmos and Harmonia 18. The children of Dawn (Eos) 19. The descendants of Kalypso, Circe, and Aiëtes 20. The descendants of Perseus and Andromeda
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Penguin Books Ltd Wessex Poems and Other Verses
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£11.69
Samuel French Ltd Hedda Gabler This Is Not A Love Story
Book SynopsisThis married life is not what Hedda Gabler signed up for. She is the daughter of a general; a gun-toting, horse-riding, party-throwing siren. Then, with one little ring on her finger, she''s supposed to turn into the quiet, predictable wife of an academic. When promises are broken, an old flame comes to town, blackmail and scandal are threatened and other, braver women start to occupy the limelight, Hedda has to decide: must she submit, settle down and knuckle under or is it possible to stand up, take control and tear it all down? Hedda Gabler is Henrik Ibsen''s masterpiece, possibly the greatest stage role ever written for an actress. This funny, shocking and powerful play opens up the desperation and absurdity of trying to live as a thing that you are not.
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Samuel French Ltd Marjorie Prime
Book Synopsis2015 Pulitzer Prize FinalistIt's the age of artificial intelligence and eighty-five-year-old Marjorie -a jumble of disparate fading memories - has a handsome new companion who's programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember and what would we forget if given the chance? In this richly spare wondrous new play Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits - if any - of what technolog
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Geography III
Book SynopsisWhether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist''s office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one''s lover in the masterfully restrained One Art, Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds grand,'' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech.
£13.50
Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Oresteia of Aeschylus
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Collected Poems
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£15.30
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Poetry of Rilke
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£22.10
Random House USA Inc Goethes Faust
Book SynopsisThe best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann''s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe''s language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Playing Shakespeare
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£14.88
Random House USA Inc The Most of Nora Ephron
£31.90
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Beatification of Area Boy Methuen Modern Plays
Book SynopsisSet in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undersirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place.'Witty, wise and uplifting, this is a beautiful play whose message steals up on you and lingers on.' Financial Times.'The play is a protest against the barbarity of greed and oppression; but it is also a celebration of people's irrepressible and indomitable spirit' Sunday Times.
£11.99
WW Norton & Co The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons
Book Synopsis“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler
£35.99
WW Norton & Co Modern African Drama
Book SynopsisThe first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya.
£18.99
WW Norton & Co 1 Henry IV
Book SynopsisThe text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.Table of ContentsPreface A Note on the Text Abbreviated Genealogy of the Mortimers and the House of Lancaster The Text of 1 Henry IV Contexts and Sources COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION Excerpt from the 1598 Quarto ONE PLAY OR TWO? Harold Jenkins – The Structural Problem in Shakespeare’s “Henry the Fourth” Paul Yachnin – History, Theatricality, and the “Structural Problem” in the Henry IV Plays FALSTAFF OR OLDCASTLE? Gary Taylor – The Fortunes of Oldcastle David Scott Kastan – [Reforming Falstaff] ORIGINS Peter Saccio – [Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV] Edward Hall – Henry, Prince of Wales Raphael Holinshed – Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two Houses Anonymous – An Homilee against disobedience and wylful rebellion Raphael Holinshed – The Chronicles of England Samuel Daniel – The Ciuile Wars The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth Criticism John Dryden – The Composition of a Character Samuel Johnson – [Falstaff] Elizabeth Montagu – [Hal, Falstaff, and Taste] Maurice Morgann – An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff John Dover Wilson – The Falstaff Myth Arthur C. Sprague – Gadshill Revisited E.M.W. Tillyard – The Second Tetralogy Henry Ansagar Kelly – [Providence and Progaganda] Graham Holderness – [Tillyard, History, and Ideology] Sigurd Burckhardt – [Symmetry and Disorder] John Wilders – [Knowledge and Misjudgement] Stephen Greenblatt – [Theater and Power] Scott McMillin – [Performing 1 Henry IV] David Scott Kastan – “The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats,” or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? C. L. Barber – [Mingling Kings and Clowns] Michael Bristol – [The Battle of Carnival and Lent] Samuel Crowl – [Welles and Falstaff] Patricia Parker – [Fat Lady Falstaff] Coppélia Kahn – [Masculine Identities] Gus Van Sant – [My Own Private Idaho] Susan Wiseman – [Shakespeare in Idaho] Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin – [Gender and Nation] Christopher Highley – [Defining the Nation] Barbara Hodgdon – [Endings] Selected Bibliography
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WW Norton & Co Dance Dance Revolution
Book SynopsisAdrienne Rich chose Cathy Park Hong's "audacious" (Los Angeles Times) second book as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets Prize.Trade Review"A polyglot explosion of unique individual and broader social concerns." -- The Believer
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WW Norton & Co The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift
Book SynopsisPresents a range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works but also substantial poetic and political writings. This title includes a selection of contemporary materials, along with criticism, a chronology and bibliography.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction A Note on the Texts The Texts of The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift EARLY SATIRES AND POLITICAL WRITINGS (1704-1711) A Tale of a Tub The Battle of the Books The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity The Examiner, no. 16. November 23, 1710 A Short Character of his Excellency Thomas Earl of Wharton II. PARODIES, HOAXES, SOTTISIERS (1703-1745) A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick Predictions for the Year 1708 The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Eilliston from A Compleat Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation Directions to Servants III. WRITINGS ON IRELAND (1707-1737) The Story of the Injured Lady and The Answer to the Injured Lady Sermon, Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately entered into Holy Orders A Letter to a Young Lady, On Her Marriage Drapier's Letters I Drapier's Letters IV A Short View of the State of Ireland A Modest Proposal A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars IV. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS V. POEMS Verses Wrote in a Lady's Ivory Table-Book To Their Excellancies … The Humble Petition of Frances Harris Baucis and Philemon A Description of the Morning A Description of a City Shower Cadenus and Vanessa The Author upon Himself Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter On Stella's Birth-Day Phyllis, or The Progress of Love The Progress of Beauty The Progress of Poetry To Stella, Visiting me in my Sickness To Stella, who collected and transcribed his Poems Stella's Birth-day To Stella on Her Birth-day A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a late Famous General The Progress of Marriage Stella's Birth-Day. A great Bottle of Wine, long buried, being that Day dug up Stella at Wood-Park To Stella Prometheus Stella's Birthday On Wood the Iron-monger A Receipt to Restore Stella's Youth Stella's Birth-day Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged Holyhead. Sept. 25, 1727 Irel.d Directions for Making a Birth-day Song A Dialogue between an eminent Lawyer and Dr. Swift Dean of St. Patrick's Traulus The Lady's Dressing Room A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed Strephon and Chloe Cassinus and Peter, a Tragical Elegy To Mr Gay Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. To a Lady On Poetry: A Rapsody The Yahoo's Overthrow The Legion Club Contexts CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING LETTERS, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND PERSONAL WRITINGS From Journal to Stella, Letter VI: Swift to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, October 10, 1710 From Journal to Stella, Letter XXXII: Swift to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, October 9, 1711 Swift to Alexander Pope, September 29, 1725 Swift to Alexander Pope, November 26, 1725 Swift to Charles Wogan, July-August 2, 1732 Swift to William Pulteney, Mary 12, 1775 Of Mean and Great Figures Family of Swift Death of Mrs. Johnson Thoughts on Various Subjects Some thoughts on Free-thinking Thoughts on Religion Further Thoughts on Religion From William Wotton, "Observations upon The Tale of the Tub" (1705) Alexander Pope, Poems on Gulliver's Travels Criticism 1745-1940 Henry Fielding [Obituary of Swift] Samuel Johnson [On A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels] Samuel Johnson [Life of Swift] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [on Gulliver's Travels] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [on Gulliver's Travels] William Makepeace Thackeray [on Gulliver's Travels and Swift's last days] D. H. Lawrence [on Swift's Celia] W. B. Yeats [on Swift, Georgian Ireland, and Stella] F. R. Leavis * "The Irony of Swift" André Breton [Swift and Black Humor] AFTER 1940 AND BY SUBJECT A TALE OF A TUB Hugh Kenner * [The Tale and the book] Marcus Walsh * "Text, ‘Text,' and Swift's Tale of a Tub" Irvin Ehrenpreis * "The Battle of the Books" THE POEMS Peneople Wilson * "Feminism and the Augustans" Derek Mahon * [On Swift's Poems] POLITICS (ENGLAND AND IRELAND) Ian Higgins * "Swift's Politics" S. J. Connolly * "Swift and Protestant Ireland" GULLIVER'S TRAVELS George Orwell * "Politics vs. Literature" R. S. Crane * "The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas" Jenny Mezciens * "Utopia and the ‘Thing which is not'" Claude Rawson * "Swift's ‘I' Narrators" Jonathan Swift: A Chronology Selected Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Life of Galileo
Book SynopsisBertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose work has had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. His plays and dramatic theory are central to the study of modern theatre.
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WW Norton & Co Later Poems Selected and New
Book SynopsisThe final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive voice.Trade Review"[Rich's poems] shine with defiance, fierce commitment, introspection and self-reproach, 'hunger for clarity' and 'sour plum jam,' majestic coastlines and domestic detail. Here is a poet who knew her own contradictions, determined to depict them accurately, and equally determined that she would not write for herself alone." -- Stephen Burt - San Francisco Chronicle
£15.19
Harvard University Press Surs Ocean
Book SynopsisSurdas, regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of the sixteenth century to the present, refashioned the narrative of Krishna and his lover Radha into elegant, approachable lyrics. His popularity led to the proliferation, through an energetic oral tradition, of poems ascribed to him, the Sursagar.Trade ReviewThese moving, elegant and accessible poems were hugely popular in their times spawning an oral tradition so vibrant that poems continued to be composed in the tradition started by Sur, under his name, by several other poets as well. -- Pragya Tiwari * India at LSE blog *
£25.46
Harvard University, Asia Center Burying Autumn
Book SynopsisBeheaded for plotting against the Qing empire, poet Qiu Jin would later be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China’s first feminist. Hu Ying studies Qiu’s enduring bond with Wu Zhiying and Xu Zihua, who braved political persecution to keep her legacy alive. In doing so, their friendship fulfilled its ultimate socially transformative potential.
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Harvard University Press The Annotated Emerson
Book SynopsisEmerson remains one of America’s least understood writers, having spawned neither school nor follower. Those wishing to discover or reacquaint themselves with Emerson’s writings but who have not known where or how to begin will not find a better starting place or more reliable guide than David Mikics in this richly illustrated Annotated Emerson.Trade ReviewMikics's annotations are gracious, helpful, and genuinely illuminating. This is a 'reader's edition' in the truest sense. -- Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillImpressive in its thoroughness… the author's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious. -- Paul Kane, Vassar CollegeDavid Mikics's The Annotated Emerson is the best possible introduction to Emerson's prose and poetry. -- Harold BloomThe #1 essayist and pure prose stylist in U.S. literature is on grand display in this lavish edition of essays, poems, and passages from Emerson's voluminous journals. The neophyte entering the Emersonian universe, as opposed to the scholar, is best served by Mikics's careful annotations and cogent commentary surrounding these selections, though even the most knowledgeable scholar would benefit. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *In his writing, Emerson favored fire imagery, and his own fiery intellect brightens every page of The Annotated Emerson, a wonderful new collection, meticulously annotated by David Mikics...In the lush pages of The Annotated Emerson readers will find that fire still warm, able to illuminate and sear. -- Daniel Dyer * Cleveland Plain Dealer *What a pleasure to have, in The Annotated Emerson, a lovely and helpful version of many of Emerson's bests, gathered and annotated by David Mikics and introduced by Phillip Lopate. This is in no way Emerson lite. These are not shortcuts but rather a welcome frame for Emerson's particular kind of difficulty. The book's introductions curate the voluminous career, and the wide margins of the pages, dappled with thoughtful notes, give the meditations space to unfurl. This is a book that gives us each hope to approach the "new yet unapproachable" Emerson. Any lay reader will find an open door here. Those who already love Emerson and know him well may find a few cherished things missing, but they may also find a few things they didn't know they wanted to find. -- Tess Gallagher * Barnes & Noble Review *Editor Mikics has selected the best known of Emerson's works but also includes excerpts from his journals, selections from lesser-read books, and a number of his poems. The volume is prefaced by a thoughtful foreword by Philip Lopate and a very useful editor's introduction...All in all, this handsome edition will be useful both to newcomers and to Emerson vets. -- Margaret Heilbrun * Library Journal *Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote essays about Shakespeare, John Brown, Stonehenge, Montaigne, best friend Henry David Thoreau, circles, nature, and self-reliance. One of his most famous lines--"the shot heard round the world" from his poem "Concord Hymn"--is still used to describe singular events in sports and history. The Annotated Emerson, edited by David Mikics, an English professor at the University of Houston, explains language and allusions that may be foreign to today's readers. By doing this, Mikics makes a great American essayist, whom Phillip Lopate in his foreword calls a "hero of intellectual labor," readily accessible to a new generation. -- Jan Gardner * Boston Globe *Copiously annotated, richly illustrated and handsomely bound, a volume all lovers not just of literature but of freedom will want on their shelves…[Emerson's] astute observations and generous vision of the world within and without still have much to teach. -- William Yeoman * West Australian *Mikics has put together a handsome edition of Emerson's most popular and enduring work. First-time readers of Emerson will find the collection useful because the annotations reference the common occurrences of Emerson's attention and, along with the illustrations, place Emerson's work in the context of the 19th century. More-experienced readers of Emerson will value the many annotations that reference his journals, letters, and other essays not gathered here. -- R. T. Prus * Choice *
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Eyewear Publishing American Purgatory
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Harvard University Press Greek Iambic Poetry
Book SynopsisThe poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC that the Greeks called iambic is primarily invective.Trade ReviewThese two additions to the Loeb Classical Library [Greek Iambic Poetry and Greek Elegiac Poetry] will be welcomed by readers at all levels. Archolicus, Hipponax, Solon, the Theognidea, and many others are now accessible as never before...The translations, into prose, are wonderfully clear and readable. All traces of translationese have been removed, or more likely were never there. While the revisions are plain, they are always instructive and can be elegant. It will repay students to read these versions not just as a crib, but to compare them carefully with the Greek. There are surprises and delights for the attentive...Gerber has a gift for finding English that shows how the Greek works...The notes are marvels of condensed information...Gerber throughout the notes writes in a clear, concise, and scrupulous style. In effect he had summarized for his readers a great deal of information about current interpretations and problems of dozens and dozens of fragments...Gerber has distilled an impressive amount of scholarship. That feat, together with the excellence of his translations, makes these volumes among the most distinguished of those recently issued. -- H.G. Edinger * Phoenix *The contemporary literalness of Gerber's translations will fo much to make these poems appealing and accessible to undergraduates...Gerber successfully transmits both the letter and the spirit of the Greek, and his eloquent directness will be welcome to both scholars and students. -- Emily Katz Anhalt * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Harvard University Press Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes
Book SynopsisPindar (ca. 518–438 BC), esteemed lyric poet, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals—the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games—against a backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and aristocratic ambition.Trade Review[A] translation which is modern, accurate, streamlined, and comprehensible… [which preserves], with a surprising degree of success, a sense of Pindar’s artful word order… He may well have produced the best text available… In many respects Race’s edition of the fragments will be even more useful than Snell-Maehler… A landmark contribution. -- Thomas K. Hubbard * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This excellent Loeb edition of Pindar supersedes the antiquated volume edited by Sandys in 1915. Its most notable feature is clarity: the Greek typeface is a pleasure to read; the translations are crisp and accurate… plentiful notes both explain Pindar’s recherché allusions and bring out how more than one interpretation of the text is often possible… This edition will be of lasting value. -- Stephen Instone * Classical Review *Race succeeds admirably in furnishing the text and translation with a concise and helpful introduction, thereby elucidating the social and literary background of the poems that follow. Each poem is also accompanied by a succinct introduction and summary. The accompanying index and genealogies are invaluable study aids for students of myth from the primary sources. Most importantly, Race has achieved his aim of creating a readable translation which follows the familiar Loeb format—a feat of considerable ingenuity in the case of Pindar… Race devotes a significant portion of his introduction to a crisp and detailed analysis of the epinikian genre. Technical issues in Pindar’s composition of the Odes are equally effectively dealt with… Undergraduates tackling the complexities of this author for the first time will clearly find this volume essential. The more mature devotee will also benefit, thanks to the user-friendly scholarship of these volumes, from a day or two at the races with Race. -- John Weeds * Joint Association of Classical Teachers Review *
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Harvard University Press Epigrams Volume I Spectacles. Books 15
Book SynopsisIn his epigrams, Martial is a keen, sharp-tongued observer of Roman scenes and events, including the new Colosseum, country life, a debauchee’s banquet, and the eruption of Vesuvius. His poems are sometimes obscene, in the tradition of the genre, sometimes affectionate or amusing, and always pointed.Trade ReviewThe publication of a new edition in the Loeb Classical Library of the poems of Martial—Latin verse and English prose face à face…offers an occasion for thinking about the way Martial’s presence shows itself in English poetry and about the poet in person… A reliable English version is always good to possess and here we have one that gives us access to many a dark and difficult corner of the original Latin. -- Charles Tomlinson * New Criterion *Shackleton Bailey’s is a remarkable achievement, and from now on his ‘Loebs’ will be the best means by which anyone can get to know Martial, as well as the essential first work of reference for scholars. -- P. Howell * Classical Review *
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Harvard University Press Silvae
Book SynopsisStatius’s Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between AD 89 and 96. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct pictorial quality. D. R. Shackleton Bailey’s edition, which replaced the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition by J. H. Mozley, is now reissued with corrections by Christopher A. Parrott.
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Alma Books Ltd Love Poems
Book SynopsisOne of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin’s immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and enduring verse explorations of love, such as ‘I Loved You’, ‘Night’ and ‘I Well Recall a Wondrous Meeting’, pieces which are crowning achievements of the European canon and still have the same timeless emotional resonance today.
£9.45
Harvard University Press Daphnis and Chloe. Anthia and Habrocomes
Book SynopsisLongus' Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century AD), in which an idealized pastoral environment provides the setting as a boy and girl discover their sexuality, is one of the great works of world literature. Xenophon of Ephesus' Anthia and Habrocomes (first century AD) is perhaps the earliest extant Greek novel.
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Harvard University Press Poems. Letters
Book SynopsisExtant works by Sidonius Apollinaris are three long panegyrics in verse, poems addressed to or concerned with friends, and nine books of letters.
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Samuel French Ltd A Nice Family Christmas
Book SynopsisIt’s Christmas Eve, and a young newspaper reporter on the brink of being fired has been assigned a last-chance story about a typical family Christmas – his family’s Christmas. He goes home to his recently widowed mother, his crazy uncle, his eccentric grandmother, and his battling siblings and their neurotic spouses, who provide no shortage of material. One by one, we learn each family member’s secrets, problems, and dysfunctions, and when they learn that he’s wr
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iUniverse They Call Him Immanuel God with Us A Christian Poetry Devotional for Inspiration and Reflection
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Samuel French Ltd The Perfect Murder
Book SynopsisAdapted from a story by Jeffrey Archer. Carla Moorland has been murdered, and accountant John Hoskins, who has been having an affair with her, is certain he knows who did it - himself. John''s wife Elizabeth, rather than calling the police, is determined to keep John out of prison, even if it means that an innocent man will be punished for the crime...-9 women or men
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Andrews McMeel Publishing The Chaos of Longing
Book Synopsis The Chaos of Longing is a brutally honest exploration of desire—physical, emotional, and spiritual. This revised and expanded edition contains over 50 pages of all-new material. Organized in four sections – Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany – K.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collection explores what it is to want in spite of trauma, shame, injustice, and mental illness. It is one survivor's powerful testimony, and a love letter 'to those who lie awake burning.'
£12.34
Faber & Faber New Selected Poems 19882013 Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisNew Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career.Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at presenting the second half of his career, ''from Seeing Things onwards'', as he foresaw it. Although he was unable to complete a edition/selection, he left behind selections that have been followed here. New Selected Poems 1988-2013 reprints the author''s chosen poems from his later years, beginning with his ground-breaking volume Seeing Things (1991), his two Whitbread Books of the Year, The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999), and his multi-nominated, prize-winning volumes, Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010). The edition concludes with two post
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Samuel French Inc Streamers
Book SynopsisFull Length, Drama / 11 m / Int. This volatile, incendiary drama premiered in 1976 under the direction of Mike Nichols, produced by Joseph Papp at New York''s Lincoln Center. Revived in 2008 by the Roundabout Theatre, the third in author Rabe''s quartet of Vietnam Plays is set in the Army barracks housing a group of young men, the streamers of the title: hapless parachutists who streak to certain death when their parachutes fail to open. This group includes Billy, a new recruit; Roger, a str
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Concord Theatricals The Wiz
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Samuel French Inc My Children My Africa
Book SynopsisFull Length, Drama Characters: 2 male, 1 female Unit set. The great South African playwright confronts the tragedy of apartheid in his native land in this compelling tale about the efforts of a humble and humane black teacher in a segregated township to persuade just one young person that education, not violence, is the answer to South Africa''s problems. A document of towering stature. Philadelphia Inquirer The drama vacillates superbly between politica
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Samuel French Inc Lost in Yonkers
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Flapjack Press Raining Upwards
Book SynopsisRaining Upwards is Henry Normal's first all-new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity, and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about. In amongst his work lie some of the most tender, compassionate and moving pieces I have read from a modern poet - Artful Reporter
£8.54
