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Published to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this collection confirms R. S. Thomas as our pre-eminent poet.'This is the book I've been waiting for' Ted Hughes
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William BlakeWilliam Blake was a poet and artist. Born in Soho in the eighteenth century, the son of a shopkeeper, he is now...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The Great Poets
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A selection of poetry by Lord Byron, a poet considered amongst the most treasured and influential in English literature.The poet George Gordon Byron, commonly known as Lord Byron, was a leading figure of the Romantic movement in England and one of the most influential...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The Great Poets
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An elegant and witty writer, poet laureate from 1668, Dryden was on of the major dramatists, critics and poets of his age.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Includes the ever popular "If", along with the best of Kipling's powerful, fluent poetry.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Best known for his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, Milton is also a master of subtle lyric harmony. He is one of the greatest writers of the 17th century, and of all time.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Renowned for his wicked wit and bons mots, Wilde also had a deep understanding of the human condition - as revealed with moving simplicity in THE BALLARD OF READING GOAL.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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A best of R.S. Thomas's poems in a beautiful new gift editionR. S. Thomas (1913- 2000) was born in Cardiff. He studied classics, then theology and, after ordination, served six rural Welsh parishes for most of his life. His first book of poems was published in 1946. He...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Rome's greatest poet, famous for his love elegies, and his narrative poem, "Metamorphoses".
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the precision and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The Great Poets
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This unique anthology presents depictions of female figures in a wide range of English verse - narrative, dramatic and lyric, original and translated - from the Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century. The emphasis is on the variety of women's reactions to the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The archetypal Restoration rake, Rochester wrote poems of love, debauchery, erotic obsession and impotence full of honesty and raw power.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England. His work - still popular today - includes such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The Great Poets
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One of America's best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Anglo-saxon poetry was circulated orally in a preliterate society, and gathered at last into books over some six centuries before the Norman Conquest ended English independence. Against the odds some of these books survive today. This anthology of prose translations...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Poems of religious doubt and closely-observed uncertainties, expressing the wants and feelings of man and women everywhere.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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