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Poetry Books
Faber & Faber Stevie Smith A Selection
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972). Hermione Lee's introduction and arrangement bring out the connections between Stevie Smith's different writings, and show us what an extraordinary and original writer she was. The selection is complemented by biographical and textual notes, and forms an attractive introduction to the work of an idiosyncratic English genius.
£13.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Julius Caesar: Third Series
Book SynopsisThis edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining fast action and immediacy with compelling rhetorical language, and finding a clear context for its study of tyranny in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth 1. The richly experimental verse and the complex structure of the play are analysed in depth, and a strong case is made for this to be the first play to be performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.'Daniell's edition is a hefty piece of serious scholarship that makes a genuine contribution.'Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey'This is a stimulating new look at a play which is too often exhibited in a critical museum.' Paul Dean, English Studies
£999.99
Ebury Publishing Up in the Attic
Book SynopsisSunday Times BestsellerThe brand new collection of verse from the nation’s favourite poet, Pam Ayres.With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam’s new collection is by turns hilarious, reflective and profound. From the dubious joy of being an exhausted, panic-stricken hostess in ‘The Dinner Party’ or feelings of unease about pub tableware in ‘Don’t Put My Dinner on the Slate!’, to a poignant reflection of war in 'Down the Line'and the bittersweet nostalgia of ‘Up in the Attic’, this new collection will tickle and move readers in equal measure.Trade ReviewPam Ayres is absolutely essential to British humour, reminding us all to be tickled by the small joys and ridiculousness of everyday life. * Mail on Sunday *My prescription for Christmas jollity would be Pam’s book passed around by the family * Daily Mail *
£11.69
Oxford University Press Measure for Measure
Book Synopsis''Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.''Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman''s body be measured against a man''s life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Measure explores these questions through a series of substitutions: Angelo deputises for the Duke, who disguises himself to spy on his subjects; corrupt Angelo demands that almost-nun Isabella gives her body in exchange for her brother''s life; and the Duke substitutes living bodies and decapitated heads to bring about a ''happy ending'' in this problematic comedy. Exploring corrupt power, state surveillance, and the silencing of women by powerful men, Measure for Measure continues to resonate today.The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare''s works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer
£6.99
Andrews McMeel Publishing Softening Time: Collected Poems
Book SynopsisFrom beloved yogi, teacher, and artist Elena Brower comes the writer’s debut collection of poetry: a lyrical exploration of grief, self-compassion, and learning from the past to navigate life’s challenges with grace.Softening Time is both autobiography and self-help, poetry and inspiration. Drawing on events in her own life, particularly her experiences as a mother, daughter, sister, and friend, Brower writes poignantly on themes of love, loss, healing, and rebirth. Punctuating her work with themed quotations from a wide variety of celebrated writers and thinkers, Brower guides the reader along an intimate journey of both deepening and “softening” self-awareness.
£10.79
Faber & Faber Boys on the Verge of Tears
Book SynopsisWild, thrilling, brutally honest and beautifully tender. This is a truly extraordinary new play. Lucy KirkwoodWINNER OF THE VERITY BARGATE AWARD 2022A father waits for his son. Kids hang around skipping school. Fights break out after nights of drinking. Set inside a men''s public toilet, Boys on the Verge of Tears is a bold, kaleidoscopic tale of violence and vulnerability.Sam Grabiner''s play premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in April 2024.
£10.44
Nick Hern Books A Mirror
Book Synopsis'With great pleasure Leyla & Joel Invite you to celebrate their marriage. Dress code is smart casual. Doors at 7.30 p.m., followed by the exchange of vows. And at the signal, the entertainment will begin. (This performance is being staged without a licence from the Ministry. We recognise the risk that each and every one of you is taking by attending and we salute your courage.)' A Mirror is an elusive, explosive play by Sam Holcroft, interrogating censorship, authorship and free speech. It premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2023, directed by Jeremy Herrin, and with a cast including Jonny Lee Miller, Tanya Reynolds and Micheal Ward.Trade Review'A beautifully crafted, mind-bending piece of work' * Evening Standard *'A Pirandellian wedding drama that achieves a series of satisfying surprises... delights in the theatrical trickery of dual identities and false realities to throw a final surprise punch' * Guardian *'Bold, inventive and original... a journey of discovery, a hall of mirrors, that takes us into a series of intricate boxes, of plays within plays, where nothing is quite as it seems... I loved it' * WhatsOnStage *'Intriguing, twisty, metatheatrical... an achievement: like nothing else you'll see on London's stages' * Independent *'Pirandello meets late Pinter meets Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, all sharing a bottle of something strong' * The Times *'Brilliantly mischievous... The joy of Holcroft's play is that it's subversive on so many levels... incendiary and mordantly funny... a triumph' * Time Out *'Undeniably genius: the kind of rare, vigorous writing that sets your head spinning' * The Stage *'A darkly comic, Orwellian affair... as punchy as it is political... a timely production packed with intrigue and passion' * Broadway World *
£10.44
Andrews McMeel Publishing Winter Roses after Fall
Book SynopsisFrom the authors of The New York Times bestsellers Empty Bottles Full of Stories and Falling Toward the Moon comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.There's a harshness in the air; the season is changing its colors. The rain is chilled, icy to the touch, and the sky, filled with melancholy. Your search for warmth has brought you here; you starve for something profound. You require something that will resonate with your soul. Despite how cold, you're determined to grow. And with these words, you bloom, a winter rose.
£11.69
Carcanet Press Ltd To Each His Own Black White S
Book SynopsisThis is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.
£9.45
Nick Hern Books Contemporary Monologues for Teenagers: Female
Book SynopsisForty fantastic female speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today. Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's likely you'll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary play. It's vital to come up with something fresh that's suited both to you – in order to allow you to express who you are as a performer – and to the specific purposes of the audition. In this invaluable collection you'll find forty speeches by leading contemporary playwrights including Andrew Bovell, Nadia Fall, Vivienne Franzmann, James Fritz, Stacey Gregg, Arinzé Kene, Cordelia Lynn, Lynn Nottage, Chinonyerem Odimba, Evan Placey, Jessica Swale and Tom Wells, from plays that were premiered at many of the UK's most famous and respected venues, including the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, Manchester Royal Exchange, Royal Court Theatre, Bush Theatre, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and VAULT Festival. Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at several leading drama schools, Trilby James introduces each speech with a user-friendly, bullet-point list of ten things you need to know about the character, and then five ideas to help you perform the monologue. This book also features an introduction to the process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself. 'Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition… a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike' Teaching Drama Magazine on The Good Audition GuidesTrade Review'An excellent collection of great value to students… the choices are varied and cover the full range in terms of class, race, age, sexual and gender orientation' * Teaching Drama *
£12.34
Oxford University Press The AngloSaxon World An Anthology Oxford Worlds
Book SynopsisBeowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans and yet within two hundred years had become Christians, to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilization. Kevin Crossley-Holland places poems and prose in context with his skilful interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon world; his translations have been widely acclaimed, and of Beowulf the poet Charles Causley has written, ''the poem has at last found its translator''. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Table of ContentsIncludes: The Wanderer; The Seafarer; Beowulf; The Battle of Malden; and other poems, prose passages, tracts, and sermons
£7.59
HarperCollins Publishers Selected Poetry Prose
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers A Christmas Carol
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Charles Dickens's classic tale of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge's encounters with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come.
£6.99
Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of French Poetry
Book SynopsisThis collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants - among them Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Breton - as well as works from a wide variety of less well-known poets such as Claudel and Cendrars, whose innovations proved vital to the progress of poetry in France. The significant literary schools of the time are also represented in sections focusing on such movements as Romanticism, Symbolism, Cubism and Surrealism. Eloquent and inspirational, this rich and exhilarating anthology reveals an era of exceptional vitality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTechnicalitiesSources and AcknowledgmentsRomanticism in FranceAlphonse de Lamartine (1790-1859)Le LacLe VallonMarceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)SouvenirLes Roses de SaadiLa Couronne effeuilléeAlfred de Vigny (1797-1863)La Colère de SamsonLe Mont des OliviersVictor Hugo (1802-85)ExtasePuisque mai tout en fleur...Souvenir de la nuit du 4StellaMes deux fillesDemain, dès l'aube...A VillequierBooz endormiJe suis fait d'ombreFenêtres ouvertesBêtise de la guerreCharles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-69)Mon âme est ce lac même...Gerard de Nerval (1808-55)FantaisieVers dorésEl DesdichadoMyrthoAntérosDelficaArtémisAlfred de Musset (1810-57)Une Soirée PerdueA JulieLa Nuit de maiRappelle-toiTheophile Gautier (1811-72)Nous n'irons plus au bois...Sculpteur, cherche avec soin...Le Saut du tremplinCharles Baudelaire (1821-67)/b>CorrespondancesL'AlbatrosLa BeautéLa ChevelureAvec ses vêtements...Une CharogneHarmonie du soirL'Invitation au voyageLa MusiqueSpleen (I)Spleen (III)Les AveuglesA une PassanteLa DestructionLe VoyageRecueillementThe Parnassian MovementLeconte de Lisle (1818-94)Les MontreursMidiLe Coeur de HialmarLe Rêve de jaguarJose-Maria de Heredia (1842-1905)Soir de batailleArianeSur le Pont-VieuxLes ConquérantsLa SiesteSoleil couchantStephane Mallarme (1842-98)Les FenêtresBrise marineL'Après-midi d'un fauneSaintePetit Air IQuand l'ombre menaça...Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui...Autre EventailLe Tombeau d'Edgar PoeSes purs ongles...Le Démon de l'analogieCharles Cros (1842-88)LendemainHiéroglypheSonnet (A travers la forêt...)PhantasmaSonnet (J'ai bâti dans ma fantaisie...)Paul Verlaine (1844-96)Mon Rêve familierEffet de nuitSoleils couchantsClair de luneEn sourdineColloque sentimentalIl pleure dans mon coeur...Dans l'interminable...Les chères mains qui furent miennes...Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit...Je ne sais pourquoi...Art poétiqueTristan Corbiere (1845-75)Le CrapaudA une CamaradeSonnet de nuitPaysage mauvaisLitanie du SommeilPetite Mort pour rireEpitapheComte de Lautreamont (1846-70)Chants de Maldoror:Chant II, strophe 13 (extract)Chant IV, strophe 6 (extract)Germain Noveau (1851-1920)Poison perduMendiantsPourrièresArthur Rimbaud (1854-91)A la MusiqueMa BohèmeOraison du soirLe Coeur voléLes Chercheuses de pouxVoyellesLe Bateau ivreMémoireO saisons, ô châteauxAprès le DélugeMatinée d'ivresseVilleAubeMarineNuit de l'EnferAdieuJules Laforgue (1860-87) Complainte des Pianos qu'on entend dans les quartiers aisésComplainte des Nostalgies préhistoriquesComplainte du Roi de ThuléComplainte sur certains Temps déplacésPierrotsLocutions des PierrotsL'Hiver qui vientDimanchesSolo de luneThe Symbolist MovementEmile Verhaeren (1855-1916) Le MoulinChanson de fouLes UsinesLes HorlogesLes Heures clairesUn SoirMaurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) TentationsHôpitalTrois princesses m'ont embrassé...Jean Moreas (1856-1936) Le SocleLa PrisonnièreJulie aux yeux d'enfantSaint-Pol Roux (1861-1940) GolgothaAlouettesLa Carafe d'eau pureA Renewal of Lyricism Paul-Jean Toulet (1867-1920) ContrerimesChanson: Le Temps d'AdonisCople CVIIFrancis Jammes (1868-1938) J'aime dans les temps...Prière pour aller au Paradis avec les ânesLes cinq Mystères douloureuxIl va neigerPaul Fort (1872-1960) Complainte du Roi et de la ReineLa grande IvresseLa Grenouille bleueL'EcureuilAnna, Comtesse de Noailles (1876-1933) L'EmprienteC'est après les moments...Paul Claudel (1868-1955) Deuxième Ode: L'Esprit et l'Eau (extract)Quatrième Ode: La Muse qui est la Grâce (first part)BalladeCharles Peguy (1873-1914)La Nuit (extract)Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milocz (1877-1939) Quand elle viendra...Aux sons d'une musique...Cantique de la connaissance (opening and closing sections)Paul Valery (1871-1945) La FileuseLe Bois amicalAu plataneL'AbeilleLes PasL'InsinuantLes GrenadesLe Cimetière marinVictor Segalen (1878-1919) Les trois Hymnes primitifsPierre musicaleOrdre au soleilEloge du jadeNom cachéCubism, cosmopolitanism and modernism Leon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947)Sur le trottoir tout gras...La rampe s'allume...La GarePostfaceMax Jacob (1876-1944) La GuerreDans la forêt silencieuseRuses du Démon pour ravoir sa proieEtablissement d'une communauté au BrésilAoût 39Présence de DieuGuillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) ZoneLe pont MirabeauL'Emigrant de Landor RoadLe brasierNuit rhénaneLiensFêteViséeLa jolie rousseBlaise Cendrars (1887-1961) Prose du Transsibérien et la petite Jeanne de France (3 extracts)ContrastesConstructionOrionMississippiAubePierre Reverdy (1889-1960)Après le BalToujours lèAubergeNomadeCouloirChauffage centralDrameLes Mots qu'on échangeXChair viveCatherine Pozzi (1882-1934) AveNyxScopolamineJules Supervielle (1884-1960) MontévidéoHaute merDans la forêt sans heuresLes PoissonsTristesse de DieuNuit en moi...Plein Ciel1940Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) Eloges II & XIVAnabase VIIExil IINeiges IVVents: Chant II, iPierre-Jean Jouve (1887-1976) Vallée de larmesVrai CorpsL'Oeil et la chevelureLamentations au cerfLa Femme et la terreJe suis succession furieuse...AnglesA soi-mêmeSurrealism Andre Breton (1896-1966) TournesolVigilanceL'Union libreSur la route de San RomanoTristan Tzara (1896-1963) La grande complainte de mon obscurité troisLe Mort de Guillaume ApollinaireSur une ride du soleilVoltPhilippe Soupault (1897- ) DimanceLa grande Mélancholie d'une avenueSay it with MusicStumblingPaul Eluard (1895-1952) L'AmoreuseLa courbe de tes yeux...La terre est bleue...Le front aux vitres...A perte de vue dans le sens de mon corpsTu te lèvesLa victoire de GuernicaFaire vivreLa Mort l'Amour la VieLouis Aragon (1897-1982) Poème è crier dans les ruinesElsa au miroirLes lilas et les rosesBallade de celui qui chanta dans les supplicesRobert Desnos (1900-1945) J'ai tant rêvé de toiLa Voix de Robert DesnosDestinée arbitraireDésespoir du soleilMi-RouteLe ZèbreLe PaysageJacques Prevert (1900-1977) Le CancreFamilialeDéjeuner du matinSanguineL'Ordre nouveauBarbaraHenri Michaux (1899-1984) Mes OccupationsCrierEmportez-moiLe grand ViolonClownDragonAprès ma MortPortraits des Meidosems (extracts)Francis Ponge (1899-1988) Les MûresL'OrangeVégétation"Négritude" Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906- ) Femme noireCamp 1940Aime Cesaire (1913- ) N'ayez point pitiéSoleil serpentPerditionProphétieTam-tam IOde á la GuinéeAndre Frenaud (1907- ) NaissanceMaison à vendreLes Rois MagesPrésence réelleAssèchement de la plaieRene Char (1907-1988) ArtineMigrationCommune Présence IIChant du refusLes premiers instantsA ***L'inoffensifFront de la roseIndex of First Lines
£17.09
Penguin Books Ltd The Works of the Gawain Poet
Book SynopsisA new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars.This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. In one of the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur''s court, must keep a deadly bargain with a monstrous knight and resist the advances of his host''s beautiful wife. The dream vision of Pearl depicts a bereaved father whose lost child leads him to glimpse heaven. And in moral poems based on stories from the Bible, Cleanness warns against sins of the flesh and of desecration, while Patience encourages readers to endure suffering as God''s will.Little is known about the so-called ''Gawain poet'', who wrote during the late fourteenth century. It is believed that he came from south-east Cheshire, an important cultural and economic centre at the time, and he was clearly well-read in Latin, French and English. Although he is not named as the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, the four works have been attributed to him based on a careful comparison of their language, date and themes.Myra Stokes was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol University. Her books include Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman and The Language of Jane Austen.Ad Putter teaches at the English Department and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, where is Professor of Medieval English Literature. His monographs include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian Romance and An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, and he is also co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend.Trade ReviewThe Works of the Gawain Poet is a model of popular scholarship, one that harkens back to the glories of the old historical criticism of Tolkien and Henry Sweet. That it has appeared not under the imprimatur of a university press but as a reasonably priced paperback from Penguin Classics is a pleasant surprise. It belongs on the shelves of every library in the English-speaking world * Washington Free Beacon *All of the poems are presented, rather daringly, in their original Middle English (very slightly cleaned up), and the array of critical materials dart very nimbly around the Gawain poet's wide reading - though anonymous, this poet was surely one of the best-read writers of his age - and the end-product effect is to provide readers with something very close to a fourteenth century First Folio. It's a marvelous performance all around * Open Letters Monthly *This is an authoritative and accessible edition, that is likely to become the standard text on undergraduate reading lists, as well as helping to bring the poems to a much wider non-specialist readership -- Professor Simon Horobin, Oxford
£17.00
Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems and Fragments DualLanguage Edition
Book SynopsisFriedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of Night’, by contrast, include enigmatic fragments in an unprecedented style, which anticipates the Symbolists and Surrealists. Together the works collected here show Hölderlin’s use of Classical and Christian imagery and his exploration of cosmology and history in an attempt to find meaning in an uncertain world.
£13.49
Penguin Books Ltd TheComplete Poems by Whitman Walt Author ON
Book SynopsisFrom Leaves of Grass to Song of Myself, all of Whitman's poetry in one volumeIn 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful “Song of Myself” and “I Sing the Body Electric” to the elegiac “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Whitman’s art fuses oratory, journalism, and song in a vivid celebration of humanity. Containing all Whitman’s known poetic work, this edition reprints the final, or “deathbed,” edition of Leaves of Grass (1891–92). Earlier versions of many poems are also given, including the 1855 “Song of Myself.” • Features a completely new—and fuller&md
£15.29
Penguin Books Ltd The Homeric Hymns
Book SynopsisSuitable for recitation at festivals, this title includes 33 songs that were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. It features songs that recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mortals.Trade Review"The purest expression of ancient Greek religion we possess. Jules Cashford is attuned to the poetry of the Hymns." (Nigel Spivey, Cambridge University)Table of ContentsThe Homeric HymnsIntroductionFurther ReadingTranslator's NoteThe Homeric HymnsI. Hymn To DionysosII. Hymn To DemeterIII. Hymn To ApolloDelian ApolloPythian ApolloIV. Hymn To HermesV. Hymn To AphroditeVI. Hymn To AphroditeVII. Hymn To DionysosVIII. Hymn To AresIX. Hymn To ArtemisX. Hymn To AphroditeXI. Hymn To AthenaXII. Hymn To HeraXIII. Hymn To DemeterXIV. Hymn To The Mother Of The GodsXV. Hymn To Herakles, The Lion-HeartedXVI. Hymn To AsklepiosXVII. Hymn To DioskouroiXVIII. Hymn To HermesXIX. Hymn To PanXX. Hymn To HephaistosXXI. Hymn To ApolloXXII. Hymn To Poseidon XXIII. Hymn To The Son Of Kronos, Most HighXXIV. Hymn To HestiaXXV. Hymn To The Muses And ApolloXXVI. Hymn To DionysosXXVII. Hymn To ArtemisXXVIII. Hymn To AthenaXXIX. Hymn To HestiaXXX. Hymn To Gaia, Mother Of AllXXXI. Hymn To HeliosXXXII. Hymn To SeleneXXXIII. Hymn To The DioskouroiNotes
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Penguin Books Ltd The Divine Comedy
Book SynopsisThe first volume of Dante's Divine ComedyGuided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante’s life. In this first part of his Divine Comedy, Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind’s search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment.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 represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative teTrade Review“The English Dante of choice.” –Hugh Kenner“Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths.” –Robert Fagles, Princeton University“A marvel of fidelity to the original, of sobriety, and truly, of inspired poetry.” –Henri Peyre, Yale University
£10.44
Penguin Books Ltd The Aeneid
Book SynopsisAeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the conquering Greeks. He undergoes many trials and adventures on a long sea journey, from a doomed love affair in Carthage with the tragic Queen Dido to a sojourn in the underworld. All the way, the hero is tormented by the meddling of the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods and a bitter enemy of Troy, but his mother and other gods protect Aeneas from despair and remind him of his ultimate destiny - to found the great city of Rome. Reflecting the Roman peoples'' great interest in the ''myth'' of their origins, Virgil (70-19 BC) made the story of Aeneas glow with a new light in his majestic epic.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Oresteia Agamemnon The Libation Bearers The
Book SynopsisIn the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father's death; and in The Eumenides, Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased. Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a societyTrade Review"Conveys more vividly and powerfully than any of the ten competitors I have consulted the eternal power of this masterpiece ... a triumph." —Bernard Levin "How satisfying to read at last a modern translation which is rooted in Greek feeling and Greek thought ... both the stature and the profound instinctive genius of Aeschylus are recognised." —Mary Renault, author of The King Must DieTable of ContentsThe Oresteia - Aeschylus ForewordAcknowledgmentsA Reading of "The Oresteia": The Serpent and the EagleAESCHYLUS: THE ORESTEIAAgamemnonThe Libation BearersThe EumenidesThe Geneaology of OrestesSelect BibliographyNotes:AgamemnonThe Libation BearersThe EumenidesGlossary
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Penguin Books Ltd Cyrano de Bergerac
Book SynopsisPoet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size and believes she will never see past it to return his feelings. So when he discovers that the handsome but tongue-tied Christian is also pining for Roxane, generous Cyrano offers to help by writing exquisite declarations of love for the young man to woo her with. Will she ever recognize who she is really falling in love with? Set during the reign of Louis XIII, Rostand''s Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) was one of the great theatrical successes of its time and remains as popular today for its dramatic power and, above all, for its good-natured, passionate and swashbuckling hero.
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Penguin Books Ltd Huis Clos and other Plays The Respectable
Book SynopsisThese three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre''s major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer and the Lord, Sartre''s favourite among his plays, explores this theme in depth, dealing in the process with fundamental questions of faith and disillusionment; in Huis Clos - arguably Sartre''s most important play - he contends that ''Hell is other people'', and details the afterlife of three souls trapped together in locked room and the torments that they inflict on each other; while The Respectable Prostitute, set in the Deep South of America, is concerned with racism, subjugation and the demands of conscience.
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisChosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat Generation image. Presented chronologically, and ranging from early works such as Paterson' (1949) to selections from White Shroud (198085) and Cosmopolitan Greetings (198692), and including the classic poems Howl (195556) and Kaddish (195960) as well as songs, recent uncollected poems and notes by the author, this volume brings together the most intensely personal verse of a great American poet incandescent explorations that expand the consciousness with their breadth of vision and depth of humanity.
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Penguin Books Ltd New and Collected Poems 19312001
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Penguin Books Ltd Canti
Book SynopsisCovers radical public poems of Leopardi on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Merchant of Venice
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is both a witty comedy and a moving exploration of bigotry and stigmatisation, and this Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by W. Moelwyn Merchant with an introduction by Peter Holland. 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven' Bassanio, a noble but impoverished Venetian, asks his friend the merchant Antonio for a loan to impress an heiress. Antonio agrees, but is forced to borrow the sum from a cynical Jewish moneylender, Shylock, who forces him into a chilling contract, which stipulates he must honour the debt with a pound of his own flesh. But Bassanio's beloved is not as demure as she seems, and disguising herself as a lawyer, Portia proves herself one of Shakespeare's most cunning heroines, in a witty attack on Shylock's claim. A complex and controversial comedy, The Merchant of Venice explores prejudice and the true nature of justice. This book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's
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Penguin Books Ltd Dont Let Me Be Lonely An American Lyric
Book SynopsisThe award-winning poet''s powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxinsHere, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the ''American Lyric'' form which makes her Forward Prize-winning collection Citizen so distinctive: an original combination of poetry, lyric essay, photography and visual art, virtuosically deployed. Don''t Let Me Be Lonely is Rankine''s meditation on the self bewildered by race riots, terrorism, medicated depression and television''s ubiquitous influence. Written in the years after 9/11, this is an unflinching and deeply felt meditation on life and death in a nation in flux.Trade ReviewRankine brilliantly pushes poetry's forms ... one is left with a mix of emotions that linger and wend themselves into the subconscious * The New York Times *An unforgettable book ... mesmerizing ... terrifying -- Jorie GrahamA master work in every sense -- Robert CreeleyI don't know of a book of poems that so unabashedly, startlingly, successfully partakes of this contemporary combination of turbulence and torpor ... consuming * Pleiades *
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Penguin Books Ltd My Poems Wont Change the World
Book Synopsis''Two hours ago I fell in love and trembled, and tremble still, and haven''t a clue whom I should tell''From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and - always, and above all - love. This volume is the first substantial gathering of the best of Patrizia Cavalli''s work from her first six collections, from 1974 to 2006, translated by a selection of renowned poets. By turns thoughtful and sly, sensual and comic, charismatic and profound, these are works perfectly attuned to the pleasures and pains of everyday life and love.''The most intensely ethical poetry in Italian literature of the twentieth century'' Giorgio Agamben ''Amazingly fresh and surprising. The world does change, in the telling'' John AshberyEdited by Gini Alhadeff
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Penguin Books Ltd Rotten Days in Late Summer
Book SynopsisA TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE ''Impressive . . . tender, unflinching'' Guardian''This is poetry in the grand tradition of annihiliation by desire. It''s what the young are always learning, and the old, if they are wise, never forget'' Anne Boyer, author of The Undying''Brilliant . . . heralds the arrival of a frank and vital poetic voice'' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti''Frank and alert . . . an important voice in British poetry'' Eley Williams, author of The Liar''s Dictionary''Direct and heart-breaking'' Alex Dimitrov, author of Love and Other Poems''A rare thing . . . razor-sharp'' Julia Copus, author of This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte MewIn Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb turns poetry to an examination of the textures of class, youth, adulthood and death in the working communities of the West Country, from mobile home parks, boyish factory workers and saleswomen kept on the road for days at a time, to the yearnings of young love and the complexities of masculinity.Alongside individual poems, three sequences predominate: a series of ''Love Stories'', charting a course through the dreams, lies and salt-baked limbs of multiple relationships; ''Diagnostics'', which tells the story of the death from cancer of the poet''s father; and ''Treetops'', a virtuosic long poem weaving together grief and mental health struggles in an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming data of a life.The world of these poems is close, dangerous, lustrous and difficult: a world in which whole existences are lived in the spin of almost-inescapable fates. In searching for the light within it, this prodigious debut collection announces the arrival of a major new voice in British poetry.Trade ReviewIt's a rare thing to come across a debut collection as cohesive and accomplished as Rotten Days in Late Summer. Whether writing on love, class, illness, the working life, death or the complex and multi-faceted nature of human desire, Ralf Webb is never less than razor-sharp. With a storyteller's flair, he evokes a world of shifting terrains in which 'anything could be an omen', and where refrains, motifs, stanza shapes and rhymes call to each other across the pages. In his extraordinary 'Treetops' sequence, Webb navigates the labyrinths of mental illness and the ambiguous prize of health . . . It all feels gloriously, anarchically new -- Julia CopusThis is close-range language, magnifying without prejudice both the beautiful and the hard. Ralf Webb's poetry tells the truth of the push-pull of liberation and obligation . . . To work, to care, to mourn, but also to be a poet and queer and . . . dream of a commune in France - this is poetry in the grand tradition of annihilation by desire. It's what the young are always learning, and the old, if they are wise, never forget -- Anne BoyerHis poems take on grief and young manhood, and are largely set in England's West Country. 'Accept this cheap and ironclad cynicism,' Webb writes. 'We're not famous. I am completely in love.' The voice in this book is direct and heart-breaking. There's no pretension. It's all heart -- Alex Dimitrov * Oprah Daily *Webb's collection concerns captivation and captivity, its dignities and its violences, with frank and alert complexity. Be it in remembered school corridors, the careening horizons of grief or longed-for resolutions within and without desire, he presents the strange within the recognisable and the recognisable within the strange. A careful-bold, important voice in British poetry -- Eley WilliamsRalf Webb is an ethnographer of the present. He is interested in everyday life in the extreme. What we find is that "There is a goodness here, somewhere, there is sense in struggle." Equal parts ode, litany, and menace, Rotten Days in Late Summer opens us up to the agon of the new century -- Peter Gizzi
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Oxford University Press Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies
Book SynopsisThis original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song within the lyrics.Trade ReviewRendered with uncanny clarity and intrinsic energy, the translation shows great patience, ingenuity, and learning in the capturing of the Greek original. It is lucid, smooth, elegant, and musical, captivating readers instantly. Choice deeply rewarding version ... It outshines all the other versions that I have to hand and (I would guess) those that I don't. Malcolm Heath, Greece and RomeTable of ContentsOEDIPUS THE KING; AIAS; PHILOCTETES; OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
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Oxford University Press The Masnavi Book Five Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisThe first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. The Masnavi is well-known to contain much sexually explicit content within teaching stories about the path of annihilation of the self in a total and uncompromising way.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Translation Select Bibliography Chronology Masnavi: Book Five Explanatory Notes Glossary
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Oxford University Press The Comedy of Errors
Book Synopsis''How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!''The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare''s most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it''s often considered an immature play but also a piece of dramatic experimentation. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition examines links between Shakespeare''s play and its literary sources and analogues, but also situates it within performance traditions. Illuminating points of comparison between The Comedy of Errors and Shakespeare''s other comedies, as well as it''s consonances with Shakespeare''s later plays of estrangement and loss, this edition provides readers with a nuanced exploration of Shakespeare''s shortest play.The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare''s works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare''s work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare''s work.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Oxford University Press Broken Hierarchies
Book SynopsisBroken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de'' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.Trade ReviewVivid clarity ... intense lyric beauty. This is work of the first importance. * Paul Batchelor, Book of the Year 2014, Times Literary Supplement *The scale and consistency of this volume, meticulously edited by Kenneth Haynes, and handsomely, if rather minutely, set out, with plenty of white space around poems and a jacket bearing an image from Kokoschka, give it a monumental air ... At the vital, latter end of the book there are huge achievements and intricate exercises, experimental in their rigour. Hill's scraggy apple tree is indeed an emblem of his stupendous late-spring flowering. * John Kerrigan, Times Literary Supplement *Broken Hierarchies possesses a magisterial intellectual sweep and sense of literary high ambition which is perhaps unique in contemporary English poetry. * Terry Kelly, London Magazine *Hill has for 40-odd years kept his language as close-textured, tough, knotted and lyrical as poetry can be. If he makes old Eliot seem by comparison an easy read it is not for mere show; these poems are as beautiful, hard, compressed and granular as the rocks and stones and trees from which they are made. * Fred Inglis, The Times Higher Education Supplement *If the phrase "greatest living poet in the English language" has any meaning, then we should use it to describe Hill. * Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian *He can rival the best. * Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Sunday Times *Table of ContentsFOR THE UNFALLEN (1959); KING LOG (1968); MERCIAN HYMNS (1971); TENEBRAE (1978); THE MYSTERY OF THE CHARITY OF CHARLES PEGUY (1983); HYMNS TO OUR LADY OF CHARTRES (1982 2012); CANAAN (1996); THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE (1998); SPEECH! SPEECH! (2000); THE ORCHARDS OF SYON (2002); SCENES FROM COMUS (2005); WITHOUT TITLE (2006); PINDARICS (2005 2012); A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER (2007); LUDO (2011); THE DAYBOOKS (2007 2012)
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Oxford University Press Oresteia
Book SynopsisThe Oresteian trilogy (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides) established the themes of Greek tragedy - the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. The plays dramatize the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, the revenge of her son Orestes, and his judgement by the court of Athens. This new translation seeks to preserve the plays' qualities as theatre and as literature.Table of ContentsAgamemnon ; Libation Bearers ; Eumenides
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Henry VI Parts I II and III The RSC Shakespeare
Book SynopsisFrom the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare''s epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Henry VI in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews withtwo leading directors and a designer - Edward Hal and Michael Boyd, and Tom Piper providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.Trade Review'A triumphant addition to our times.' - Fiona Shaw, The TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction Structure and Style The Popular Voice The Tragic Agon About the Text Key Facts Henry VI, Part One Textual Notes Key Facts Henry VI, Part Two Textual Notes Key Facts Henry VI, Part Three Textual Notes Synopses to the plots of Parts One, Two, and Three Henry VI in Performance: the RSC and Beyond Four Centuries of Henry VI: An Overview At the RSC The Director's Cut: Interviews with Michael Boyd and Edward Hall 'Designing Henry VI' by Tom Piper Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology Kings and Queens of England: From the History Plays to Shakespeare's Lifetime The History Behind the Histories: A Chronology Further Reading and Viewing References Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems and Prose Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisPercy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major works include the long visionary poems “Prometheus Unbound” and “Adonais,” an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter, classic verses include “Ozymandias,” “To a Skylark,” “Mont Blanc,” and “Ode to the West Wind.” This comprehensive and informative new edition collects his best poetry and prose, revealing how his writings weave together the political, personal, visionary, and idealistic.Trade ReviewThis is such an important and definitive edition. It will suit both the scholar and the general reader ... One can only marvel at the amount of editorial work that has gone into this volume -- Nick Lezard * Guardian *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other
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Penguin Books Ltd Mexico City Blues
Book Synopsis''I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday''Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac''s most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked ''choruses'', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic. ''A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature'' Allen Ginsberg''A jazz poet. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins or Dylan Thomas'' The New York Herald TribuneTrade ReviewA spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature. -- Allen GinsbergA jazz poet. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins of Dylan Thomas. -- The New York Herald Tribune
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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse 110 Poets on
Book SynopsisAn inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine, featuring poets from across the world, from antiquity to the present, compiled by renowned poet and author of Martyr!, Kaveh AkbarA Penguin ClassicPoets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology is a holistic and global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia.Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BC Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata - this selection presents a number of canonical voices like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized diverse voices going up to the presentTrade ReviewIf poetry is prayer, here are scriptures. Kaveh Akbar's brave, encompassing map of spiritual hunger shows us that longing belongs to all of us, whatever the languages we speak or the geographies we inhabit -- Jeet ThayilAn amazing collection of spiritual verse from many cultures and periods, from ancient Sumer in the third millennium BCE up to the present. There cannot be any other anthology that ranges so widely, and anyone concerned with either poetry or spirituality will want to own a copy -- John Barton * author of A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths *Wonderfully rich, this beautiful anthology of verse uniquely displays how humans over centuries and across continents have wrestled with the concept of the divine and, in turn, humanity's relationship with that divinity. From exaltation to lament, from reflections on beauty to explorations of science, these words draw the reader's eyes towards the wonder of the numinous. A delightful celebration of human creativity, with new insights from a trusted guide: Kaveh Akbar -- Chine McDonald * director of Theos and author of God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations *What an amazing compilation: beautifully edited, translated, introduced, this book is far more than a typical poetry anthology. What is it, then? It is our chance to overhear the splendid poet Kaveh Akbar whisper to himself words which he lives by, as he embarks on his own journey of spirit, loss, astonishment, bewilderment, and, perhaps, understanding. The chorus of voices gathered offer a balm, a consolation, a tune, in our desolate world -- Ilya Kaminsky * author of Deaf Republic *How can language approach the spiritual - that which remains unlanguaged - and trace the limen between the self and what it falls silent before? In The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse, Kaveh Akbar takes up this timeless inquiry with expansive curatorial shaping and heady joy, threading together Li Po and Adelia Prado, Hafez with Jabès, reverent with ludic, divine with corporeal, and everything that gets charged through, and between, them. Vibrating across this thick bundle of verse is the animation of the spirit enmeshed with the body, astounding in its ever-shifting forms, its irrepressible music. These poems "thin the partition between a person and a divine," and they do so sublimely: making porous the border between the self and all that beckons beyond understanding -- Jenny XieThe choices Kaveh Akbar has made for this anthology of spiritual verse are spectacularly excellent. They are from regions of poetry at once accessible and exalted, representing the most intense of human experiences, the experiences of the divine, the yearning for the holy. Multiple cultures are represented: texts of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Arabic speaking world, the Farsi speaking world, poets of Hindi and Urdu, poets from everywhere in Asia, Africa, Europe, as well as England and the USA. Here is a page of Lucretius, there a page of Dante (splendidly translated by Mary Jo Bang), and over there, Nazim Hikmet. There are several astonishing women, including Enheduanna, Mirabai, Gabriela Mistral. The book holds an embarrassment of riches, yet is light on its feet. You can easily carry it with you in an outside pocket of your knapsack. You too will be smitten by the yearning that animates and drives these poems. Akbar's Introduction, and his notes on individual poems, are extra added value: the words of a poet -- Alicia Ostriker * New York State Poet Laureate 2018-2021, author of the volcano and after:Selected and New Poems, 2002-2019 *Table of ContentsIntroductionEnheduanna, from ‘Hymn to Inanna’ Unknown, ‘Death of Enkidu’, from The Epic of Gilgamesh Unknown, from The Book of the Dead Unknown, Song of Songs, chapters 1 and 2 King David, Psalm 23 Homer, from The Odyssey Sappho, Fragments 22 and 118 Patacara, ‘When they plow their fields’ Lao Tzu, ‘Easy by Nature’, from Tao Te Ching Chandaka, Two Cosmologies Vyasa, from the Bhagavad Gita Lucretius, from The Nature of Things Virgil, from The Aeneid Shenoute, ‘Homily’ Sengcan, ‘The Mind of Absolute Trust’ From the Quran Kakinomoto Hitomaro, ‘In praise of Empress Jitō’ Li Po, ‘Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon’ Rabi’a al-Basri, ‘O my lord’ Ono No Komachi, ‘This inn’ Hanshan, ‘Hanshan’s Poem’ Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh, ‘Names of the Lion’ Unknown, Anglo-Saxon charm Izumi Shikibu, ‘Things I Want Decided’ Li Qingzhao, ‘Late Spring’ Hildegard of Bingen, ‘Song to the Creator’ Mahadeviyakka, ‘I do not call it his sign’ Attar of Nishapur, ‘Parable of the Dead Dervishes in the Desert’ St Francis of Assisi, ‘Canticle of the Sun’ Wumen Huikai, from The Gateless Gate Rūmī, ‘Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven’ Mechthild of Magdeburg, ‘Of all that God has shown me’ Saadi Shirazi, ‘The Grass Cried Out’ Thomas Aquinas, ‘Lost, All in Wonder’ Moses de León, from The Sepher Zohar Dante Alighieri, from Inferno, Canto III from the Sundiata Hafez, Ghazal 17 Yaqui people, ‘Deer Song’ Nezahualcoyotl, ‘The Painted Book’ Kabir, ‘Brother, I’ve seen some’ Mirabai, ‘O friend, understand’ Yoruba people, from A Recitation of Ifa Teresa of Ávila, ‘Laughter Came from Every Brick’ Gaspara Stampa, ‘Deeply repentant of my sinful ways’ St John of the Cross, ‘O Love’s living flame’ Mayan people, from the Popol Vuh Christopher Marlowe, from Faustus William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146 John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three-person’d God’ Nahuatl people, ‘The Midwife Addresses the Woman’ George Herbert, ‘Easter Wings’ Walatta Petros/Gälawdewos, from The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros John Milton, from Paradise Lost, Book 4 Bashō, ‘Death Song’ and ‘In Kyoto’ Juana Inés de la Cruz, ‘Suspend, singer swan, the sweet strain’ Yosa Buson, ‘A solitude’ Olaudah Equiano, ‘Miscellaneous Verses’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ‘Wanderer’s Nightsong II’ Phillis Wheatley, ‘On Virtue’ William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’ Kobayashi Issa, ‘All the time I pray to Buddha’ John Clare, ‘I Am!’ John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Mirza Ghalib, ‘For the Raindrop’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Grief’ Frederick Douglass, ‘A Parody’ Emily Dickinson, ‘I prayed, at first, a little Girl’ Uvavnuk, ‘The Great Sea’ Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘God’s Grandeur’ Rabindranath Tagore, ‘The Temple of Gold’ Constantine Cavafy, ‘Body, Remember’ W. B. Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’ Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘The Second Duino Elegy’ Muhammad Iqbal, ‘These are the days of lightning’ Yosano Akiko, ‘To punish’ Sarojini Naidu, ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’ Delmira Agustini, ‘Inextinguishables’ Gabriela Mistral, ‘The Return’ Anna Akhmatova, from ‘Requiem’ Osip Mandelstam, ‘O Lord, help me to live through this night’ Edith Södergran, ‘A Life’ Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poems to Czechia María Sabina, from ‘The Midnight Velada’ Xu Zhimo, ‘Second Farewell to Cambridge’ Federico García Lorca, ‘Farewell’ Nâzim Hikmet, ‘Things I Didn’t Know I Loved’ Léopold Sédar Senghor, ‘Totem’ Faiz Ahmed Faiz, ‘Before You Came’ Czesław Miłosz, ‘Dedication’ Edmond Jabès, ‘At the Threshold of the Book’ Aimé Césaire, from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Octavio Paz, ‘Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy’ Oodgeroo Noonuccal, ‘God’s One Mistake’ Paul Celan, ‘There was Earth in Them’ Paul Laraque, ‘Rainbow’ Nazik Al-Malaika, ‘Love Song for Words’ Wisława Szymborska, ‘Astonishment’ Zbigniew Herbert, ‘The Envoy of Mr Cogito’ Yehuda Amichai, ‘A Man in His Life’ Ingeborg Bachmann, ‘Every Day’ Kim Nam-Jo, ‘Foreign Flags’ Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Bread’ Adonis, ‘The New Noah’ Christopher Okigbo, ‘Come Thunder’ Ingrid Jonker, ‘There Is Just One Forever’ Jean Valentine, ‘The River at Wolf’ Kofi Awoonor, ‘At the Gates’ Adélia Prado, ‘Dysrhythmia’ Lucille Clifton, ‘my dream about God’ Vénus Khoury-Ghata, from She Says Mahmoud Darwish, ‘I Didn’t Apologize to the Well’ M. NourbeSe Philip, from Zong! Inrasara, from Allegory of the Land Sources Acknowledgements Index of First Lines Index of Titles
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Penguin Books Ltd Rescue
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Penguin Books Ltd This is not a Small Voice
Book SynopsisThe poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well' Chinua AchebeOnly a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty' Isabel AllendeA lion in literature's forest' Maya AngelouA dazzling selection of poems from one of the most beloved American poets, whose distinctive verse resonates around the globeFew poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and abundant positivity' that characterise Sonia Sanchez's astonishing body of work. Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchez's poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration to readers around the world. Whether it's her iconic haiku, rhythmic ballads or devastating elegies, Sanchez's lyric, luminous and lovely as chandeliers', thrums with a profo
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Penguin Books Ltd The Poetry of Sex
Book SynopsisThe Poetry of Sex - a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology by acclaimed poet Sophie Hannah We''ve been at it all summer, from the Canadian border to the edge of Mexico . . .Romance and poetry seem to go hand in hand but - implicit, explicit, nuanced or starkly frank - sex itself has long been a staple subject for poets. In fact a great deal of erotic poetry rejects the distinction. It''s hard to imagine a more fruitful subject for poets than sex, in all its glorious manifestations: from desire and hope, through disappointment and confusion, to conclusion and consequence. And little has changed over the centuries, as Sophie Hannah''s anthology vividly demonstrates, from Catullus pleading with Lesbos to Walt Whitman singing the body electric. Moods and attitudes may vary but the drive persists as does the desire to write about it.Sophie Hannah''s selection ranges from ancient Rome to modern New York, from gay to straight, but her principle has been to go low on the sugar and high on the excitement. The result is a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology.From Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, this book is essential reading for poetry lovers and romantics everywhere. It is a perfect counterpart to the The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry and a wonderful companion to Sophie Hannah''s own Selected Poems.''Sophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart'' Guardian''A shrewd and accurate observer of the world around her, and of her own life, she is often very funny'' The Oldie''The brightest young star in British poetry'' IndependentSophie Hannah has published five collections of poetry. Her fifth Pessimism for Beginners was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award in 2007. Her Selected Poems is published by Penguin (revised edition, 2013). She is also the writer of bestselling psychological crime fiction, most recently The Carrier. Her novels have been translated into 24 languages. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Cambridge with her husband and children, and is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College.Trade ReviewSophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart * Guardian *
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Theatre Communications Group The Green Line 158215911617 157516041578160515751587
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mistero Buffo Methuen Modern Plays
Book SynopsisA triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Antigone Student Editions
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.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sweet Panic Methuen Fast Track Playscripts Modern Plays
Book SynopsisOne of a series of drama texts published to coincide with theatrical premieres of new plays and translations.
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Orion Publishing Co Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive paperback edition of EVERYMAN available, with introduction and extensive notes.
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