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A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the...
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Penguin
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2017-01-05
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In this innovative book, Bahman Solati presents a comparative study of ?afe?, an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, France, and the Anglophone world for the past 250 years, and his influence on the fifteenth-century classical Persian...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-12-30
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In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-10
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Beautifully illustrated and exquisitely musical, Tidings is a poem to be read out loud and cherished.‘Come with meto St Pancras Old Church, on a little London hill...’It’s Christmas Eve and on this enchanted night Charoum, the Angel of Silence, can speak. As night turns...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-11-03
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Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved by generations of children. As a central figure in the literature of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-28
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'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven
far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy'
Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-21
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'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven
far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy'
Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-20
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Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved by generations of children. As a central figure in the literature of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-08-11
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The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter...
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Penguin
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2016-07-28
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In 1962 de Andrade published Antologia Poética, a personal anthology of poems from his first ten books. This selection draws on de Andrade's anthology to encompass his finest works within his chosen areas of interest: The Individual, Minas Gerais, Family, Friends,...
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Penguin
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2016-07-07
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The ancient Sumerian poemThe Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest written stories in existence, translated with an introduction by Andrew George in Penguin Classics.Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of...
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Penguin
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2016-06-02
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* A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016*'When we climb aloneen cordée feminine,we are magicians of the Alps –we make the routes we followdisappear'The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-06-02
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This selection of the best poems from six remarkable collections reveals that all the strength and sensuality and strangeness is in there from the start.This is a metaphysical poetry for our age: rooted, steeped in the physical, but stretching for lyric completion,...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-05
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The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the...
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Penguin
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2016-04-07
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'I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other's hair. We had no sense thatanything else existed'- Elena Penga, 'Heads''Nothing, not even the drowning of a childStops the perpetual motion of the world'- Stamatis Polenakis, 'Elegy'Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece...
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Penguin
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2016-04-07
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Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness of family life and personal love, to war poems written from Bosnia and...
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Penguin
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2016-04-07
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'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin...
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Penguin
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2016-03-03
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'I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!"And thumped him on the head.'Conjuring wily walruses, dancing lobsters, a Jabberwock and a Bandersnatch, Carroll's fantastical verse gave new words to the English language.
Editeur :
Penguin
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2016-03-03
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