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Selected Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe order quantity
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Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (tr, intro & notes David Luke)(ed David Luke)
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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The works selected here represent over sixty years in the lift of the poet.
Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alongside the German originals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development.

First published 1999.
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Author: Edgar Lee Masters
Published by: Digireads.com
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Stepping Stones : Interview with Seamus Heaney order quantity
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Author: Dennis O'Driscoll
Published by: Faber and Faber
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Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced, providing an original, diverting and absorbing store of reflections, opinions and recollections.
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Swings and Roundabouts : Poems on Parenthood order quantity
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Author: Emma Neale (ed) (photography Mark Smith)
Published by: Godwit
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Eighty of the finest poems on parenthood brought together in an endearing, intelligent and accessible anthology by editor Emma Neale. Attractively packaged to be of gift-book quality, this anthology is beautifully illustrated with outstanding photographs of babies and young children. Editor Emma Neale's approach is to bring together around 90 wonderful poems, both by New Zealand and international poets, which are accessible but also strong and important. Beautifully packaged, this volume features stunning photographs by well-known photographer Mark Smith.

First published May 2008.
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9780571246991
Sylvia Plath : Poems selected by Ted Hughes order quantity
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Author: Sylvia Plath
Published by: Faber and Faber
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Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ariel", brought her both posthumous fame and a readership that continues today. Subsequently, her "Collected Poems" won the Pulitzer Prize and, on publication, her Journals provided an insight into the life that was the basis for her work. Other volumes in this series, include: "Auden", "Betjemen", "Eliot", "Hughes", and "Yeats".
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9780330376501
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes order quantity
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Author: Billy Collins (Professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA)
Published by: Picador
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'Billy Collin's is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been. A writer of immense grace and humanity, Billy Collin's shows how the great forces of history and nature converge on the tiniest details of our lives - and in doing so presents them in a new radiance. He is also unbelievably funny. 'The most popular poet in America' New York Times 'Billy Collin's writes lovely poems...Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides' John Updike 'Billy Collin's medium is a rare amalgam of accessibility and intelligence. I'd follow this man's mind anywhere. Expect to be surprised' Michael Donaghy 'Smart, his strings tuned and resonant, his wonderful eye looping over the things, events and ideas of the world, rueful, playful, ... more
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Ted Hughes : Poems selected by Simon Armitage order quantity
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Author: Ted Hughes
Published by: Faber and Faber
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Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his introduction. By the time he published his final collection, "Birthday Letters" in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape. Other volumes in this series include: "Auden", "Betjemen", "Eliot", "Plath", and "Yeats".
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Tell Me order quantity
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Author: Kim Addonizio
Published by: BOA Editions
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Told in the cracked, smoky voice of someone who has loved and lost a lot and has come out the stronger for it these poems by the author of The Philosopher's Club and Jimmy & Rita crackle with energy yet do not betray the slightest slackening of craft. Addonizio moves from bars to caf?s to one-night stands and back to bars singing a sophisticated version of the blues. She may wonder "who has the time for anything/ but their own pleasures and sorrows," but her work never succumbs to melancholy.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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9781841597591
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Author: Alfred Tennyson
Published by: Everyman's Library
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Often parodied as a complacent patriarch of the Victorian establishment, laureate to the royal court and the Queen's favourite living poet, Tennyson was in fact a sensitive, shy and complex character whose early life was dominated by family drama, financial ruin, melancholia and unhappy love. His first love was a man who died young, his second a woman who rejected him. His father was a depressive alcoholic, one of his brothers went mad, and the 'black blood of the Tennysons' was notorious in the family's home county of Lincolnshire. Many of his poems reflect these themes. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode Tennyson is the brother in spirit of Poe and Baudelaire, the author of dark, passionate and even morbid reveries. A master of the short, intense lyric, he can also be sardonic, humorous, voluptuous, earthy and satirical. Deeply read in the classics, a metrical virtuoso who ... more
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9780340825105
Ten Poems to Change Your Life order quantity
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Author: Roger Housden
Published by: Hodder Mobius
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A powerful book that harnesses the unique ability of poetry to touch the reader’s inner-most feelings. Through the voices of ten very individual poets, Roger Housden directs each of us to examine the universal themes that pursue us through life. The ten poems presented are timeless; affecting us with a powerful sense of reality, and moving us to alter the way we view ourselves and the world. With a penetrating commentary on each of the poems, Housden provides an insight into his own spiritual journey, and invites us to contemplate the significance of the poet’s message in our own lives.

First published 2003.
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9780743299770
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Author: David Wagoner
Published by: Simon & Schuster Inc
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David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of "The Best American Poetry" grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb introductory essay, series editor David Lehman's astute foreword about the current state of poetry and criticism, and cover art from the beloved poet John Ashbery, "The Best American Poetry 2009" is a memorable and delightful addition to a series dedicated to showcasing the work of poets at their best.
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The Burial at Thebes order quantity
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Author: Seamus Heaney
Published by: Faber and Faber
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Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, "The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, "Antigone" - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama.
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Author: Andrew Motion
Published by: Faber and Faber
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Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and citizens. The conversational tone and formal variety of these poems both shapes and diversifies their response to loss and its inevitabilities. Here are poems about the last surviving veteran of the trenches; poems which work with found materials drawn from the contiguous worlds of prose; and, poems which elicit the parallel lives glimpsed in paintings, or the other lives of birds, trees and weather (as of an ordinariness just out of reach). An unemphatic evenness of handling, in the detailing of ordinary destinies, alternates with capacious panoramas of longing and summation, and the collection ends ... more
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Author: Andrew Motion
Published by: Faber and Faber
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Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and citizens.
The conversational tone and formal variety of these poems both shapes and diversifies their response to loss and its inevitabilities. Here are poems about the last surviving veteran of the trenches; poems which work with found materials drawn from the contiguous worlds of prose; poems which elicit the parallel lives glimpsed in paintings, or the other lives of birds, trees and weather (as of an ordinariness just out of reach).
An unemphatic evenness of handling, in the detailing of ordinary destinies, alternates with capacious panoramas of longing and summation, and the collection ends ... more
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9780571240081
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Author: Sylvia Plath
Published by: Faber and Faber
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Originally published in 1960, "The Colossus" was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published during her lifetime. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. 'She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being poetess. She simply writes good poetry. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously ...There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.' A. Alvarez, "The Observer".
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9780679433132
The Divine Comedy order quantity
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Author: Dante Alighieri
Published by: Everyman Publishers
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This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.

"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.

"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor"

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9780571195473
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Author: Ed. Paul Muldoon
Published by: Faber and Faber Ltd
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An anthology of poems about creatures of many kinds, including some perhaps more fanciful than real. The poets range from Homer to the present.
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9780393060836
The Greek Poets: Homer to present order quantity
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Author: Peter Constantine, et al
Published by: WW Norton & Co
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This landmark volume captures three millennia of Greek poetry - more than 1,000 poems and 200 poets. From the epics of Homeric Greece to the historical and erotic ironies of Cavafy, from the romances, hymns and bawdy rhymes of Byzantium to the innovative voices of the twentieth century, this essential companion to the Western literary tradition brings together the diverse strands of the Greek poetic tradition. The favorites are all here but The Greek Poets also presents neglected eras from the rise of Constantinople to the end of the Ottoman occupation. The editors present canonical poets such as Sappho and Pindar and modern Nobel laureates Seferis and Elytis. Presenting their own translations, they include the work of past masters such as Robert Fagles and W.S. Merwin along with a younger generation of translators including Anne Carson and Paul Muldoon. It includes an introduction by Robert Hass.
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9780140275360
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Author: Homer
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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One of the greatest epics in Western literature, "The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves to its tragic conclusion. In his introduction, Bernard Knox observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.
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9781845296810
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Author: Glyn Rees
Published by: Constable and Robinson
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The most enduringly popular poetical verse form in the English language is very much alive and well. This monster volume of 2,000 limericks ranges from clean to (moderately) filthy, all guaranteed to make you laugh! It contains limericks that are historical, geographical, whimsical, clerical, medical and many more. This giant collection includes limericks by such names as Edward Lear, Isaac Asimov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, H.G. Wells, John Betjeman, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan, and others. As well as a treasure trove of completely new and original verse, generated specially for this volume. You'll find plenty of modern gems - limericks relevant to today's world, such as computers, mobile phones, foreign travel, traffic congestion, unfair taxation, the cult of celebrity, overpaid sports players, environmental issues.Plus 'old favourites' in every category you can think of, including: Limerick ... more
 
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