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'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.'
Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.'
Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'
Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'
Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first timeThe Divine Comedy describes...
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Penguin
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2012-11-29
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This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music...
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Penguin
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2012-11-01
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry PrizeStag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling -...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-04
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James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes and old obsessions. At once personal and political, Water Sessions...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-09-06
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The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This...
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Penguin
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2012-09-06
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William Peskett belongs to the brilliant generation of young poets from Northen Ireland who broke through in the 1970s. The intent observation and delicate structure of his poems are unusual. They feel their way into situations with both tact and exactness, and move...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-08-31
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Survivors is William Peskett's second book in the Secker & Warburg Poets series. At one level, it marks his move 'From Belfast to Suffolk' (the title of one of the poems), but more importantly it shows him coming to terms with the world of nature and the world of man...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-08-31
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As Far as I Know is a wonderful new book of poems by Roger McGough, the nation's favourite poetTake comfort from this You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have marriedRoger...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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The great British epic, a work of rich and fascinating poetry and one of the most enduring books ever created. This edition contains both Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. ‘Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale’...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-07-31
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Bee Journal is a startlingly original poetry sequence: a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive, from the collection of a small nucleus on the first day to the capture of a swarm two years later. It observes the living architecture of the comb,...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-07-05
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This landmark new collection brings together the best of the poetry of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of Lolita and Pale Fire. It includes an extensive number of poems that have never appeared in English before, newly...
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Penguin
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2012-07-05
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Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The book situates these writings and this writer within the patronage networks and political...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-14
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Michael Schmidt’s anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.The poems in...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-31
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Cats have been with us for thousands of year. They are:Enigmatic friendsLone hunters, family petsOur garden tigersand they too can be a man's best friend. The haiku is an ancient and honourable Japanese verse form - three lines, seventeen syllables - encapsulating a...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-05-31
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This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky' to lesser known and forgotten gems such as Gelett Burgess's 'The Purple Cow', Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a...
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Bbc Digital
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2012-05-31
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The second collection of original verse by the maverick multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis.Praise for Felix Dennis's first volume of poetry, A Glass Half Full:'The unpredictable Felix Dennis bursts forth as a 21st-century Kipling' Tom Wolfe'If Waugh were still...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-05-31
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