Author: John Wilmot Rochester
John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II. One of the finest poets of the Restoration, patron to important playwrights, model for countless witty young ... |
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Author: William Blake
William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary poets. This volume contains many of his writings, including: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage of H ... |
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Author: Carolyn Wells
On a topographical map of Literature Nonsense would be represented by a small and sparsely settled country neglected by the average tourist but affording keen delight to the few enlightened travellers who sojourn withi ... |
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Author: Brian Patten
By the author of "Love Poems", this collection of poems offers insights into life and the human condition. |
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Author: Virgil
The city of Troy has been ransacked by conquering Greeks and lies in smouldering ruins. A warrior, Aeneas, manages to escape from the ashes. He will go on to change the history of the world ...The Aeneid tells the story ... |
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The Sequel to Staying Alive
Author: Neil Astley
Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has a ... |
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A Treasury of Poetry, Dreams and Visions
Author: John Matthews
The Celts have always loved words. They called their earliest bards 'Carpenters of Song' and 'People of Skill', and established a tradition which began with the intricate magical poems of Taliesin in the 6th century AD, ... |
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Selected Poems
Author: Francesco Petrarca
The Canzoniere, a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him afte ... |
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Author: Katherine Gallagher
In her new collection, Katherine Gallagher draws on a rich inheritance from her different worlds: Australia, Britain - particularly London - and France. Her subject matter ranges widely: travel, exile, returning, change, ... |
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Author: Patrick Kavanagh
The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh bu ... |
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Ecopoems
Author: Neil Astley
Earth Shattering lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary ca ... |
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Author: Oxford World's Classics
The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia ... |
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Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province
Author: Matsuo Basho
In the seventeenth century, the pilgrim-poet Basho undertook on foot a difficult and perilous journey to the remote northeastern provinces of Honshu, Japan's main island. Throughout the five-month journey, the master of ... |
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Author: Robert Lowell
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typ ... |
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Author: John F. Cherry
The quest is the essence of medieval romance, whether the search is for the ideal beloved or for the Holy Grail. Love was sometimes the object and sometimes a snare that hindered the completion of the quest. This giftboo ... |
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Author: Mary Oliver
Strikingly redesigned to accompany the publication of New and Selected Poems, Volume Two Praise for the poetry of Mary Oliver: One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver's work is the consistency of tone over this ... |
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Author: Eliot Weinberger
This rich compendium of translations is the first to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry. Starting with Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915), it includes translations by three other American po ... |
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An Appraisal and Investigation of the Art Which for 4000 Years Has Distilled the Spoken Thoughts of Mankind
Author: Kenneth Verity
Almost a library in one volume, this unusual book, written by an accomplished poet, examines the 4000 years old phenomenon of poetry. It explains the underlying power of this art form and how its effect is exerted over h ... |
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Author: Josef Albers
The aim of life is living creatures. The aim of art is living creations... - Joseph Albers. Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a painter, designer, writer and teacher widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in t ... |
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New and Selected Poems
Author: Anthony Lawrence
'Lawrence's poems are skilfully made artefacts and intensely experiential...[His] characteristic attraction to intensity pays off in a newly austere lyricism.' (The Age, Melbourne). Anthony Lawrence is one of Australia's ... |
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