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Twentieth-Century German Poetry | |||
| An Anthology | Literature | |||
| Michael Hofmann (Edited by) | ||||
| FSG 2006 509 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0374105359 230x150mm | ||||
| Published Price £15.60 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
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The Other Ariel | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Lynda K Bundtzen | ||||
| Sutton 2005 274 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0750941235 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Our Price £1.85 | |||
| This study looks at the differences between Sylvia Plath's version of Ariel, her posthumously publicized anthology, and the version released by her estranged husband Ted Hughes, questioning the relevance of the poems that were excluded and looking at how Hughes' own work responds to Ariel. | ||||
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Anna of all the Russias | |||
| The Life of Anna Akhmatova | Literature | |||
| Elaine Feinstein | ||||
| Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 322 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0297643096 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| In a country where writing poetry was an almost exclusively male occupation, Anna Akhmatova's (1889-1966) honoured position as a giant of Russian literature is doubly remarkable. Her poetic voice was sufficiently influential for Stalin to hold her husband and son hostage for years to ensure her silence. Prize-winning novelist and biographer, Elaine Feinstein, has written an intimate account of Anna's often troubled life, based on her poetic works, memoirs, letters and journals, and interviews with family and friends. | ||||
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Country Verse | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Samuel Carr (Edited by) | ||||
| Bounty 2006 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0753713578 | ||||
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| First published in 1979, Samuel Carr's selection of poems is biased 'towards the specific and topographical and away from the subjective and pantheistic'. Here are poems about places and times of day, celebrating the English countryside through the seasons. The selections include poems by little-known poets along with famous works by the likes of Goldsmith, Cowper and Hardy, and are complemented by a 'parallel anthology' of reproductions of paintings and drawings by English artists. | ||||
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Greek Lyric Poetry | |||
| A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces | Literature | |||
| GO Hutchinson | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2001 532 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0199265828 | ||||
| Published Price £43.00 | Our Price £19.99 | |||
| GO Hutchinson discusses 20 examples of lyric verse, with Bacchylides and Pindar represented by a single large poem, and Sophocles and Euripides by one tragic ode; other authors, from Alcman to Simonides, are represented by their longest and best preserved fragments. Offering a newly constituted text (based on fresh examination of the papyri) and a textual and literary commentary, Greek Lyric Poetry provides a close analysis of the genre, its development and diversity. | ||||
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A Pilgrimage of Passion | |||
| The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | Literature | |||
| Elizabeth Longford | ||||
| Tauris Parke 2007 467 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1845113446 | ||||
| Published Price £11.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) can claim to be among England's true eccentrics: a wildly individual, larger-than-life personality, he was as much admired as he was disliked. A writer, poet, rebel, politician and explorer, his controversial life was in every sense a 'pilgrimage of passion'. Elizabeth Longford, one of the finest British biographers and historians of modern times, has drawn on Blunt's complete diaries and papers to provide a full-blooded account of this compelling man. First published in 1979. | ||||
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Coleridge | |||
| Selected Poems | Literature | |||
| Richard Holmes | ||||
| HarperCollins 1996 358 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0002555794 | ||||
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| Coleridge is a great and daring poet, whose presence is felt echoing through the language by anyone who has heard the magical names of 'Kubla Khan', 'Christabel' or 'The Ancient Mariner'. Here, Richard Holmes, Coleridge's prize-winning biographer, follows the poet's own approach to making a selection from the poems, grouping them not chronologically, but thematically and generically. Holmes presents 101 poems, each with a detailed critical and biographical note, which together form a new survey of Coleridge's work. | ||||
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Nameless Flowers | |||
| Selected Poems of Gu Cheng | Literature | |||
| Aaron Crippen (Ed. Trans.) | ||||
| George Braziller 2005 167 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0807615498 | ||||
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| Gu Cheng (1956-1993) is regarded as China's first contemporary poet. This selection traces his poetry from the early lyrics that made him a literary star to the late expressions of dark beauty that predicted his second exile and death. | ||||
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The Golden Age | |||
| Poems of the Spanish Renaissance | Literature | |||
| Don Quixote; Trans. Edith Grossman | ||||
| WW Norton 2006 201 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0393060381 | ||||
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| The Spanish Renaissance comes to life in Edith Grossman's new translations of forty great poems are presented with facing-page Spanish, an introduction and biographies of the poets. Including Jorge Manrique, Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de Leon, San Juan de la Cruz and Luis de Gongora. American-cut paper. | ||||
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The Complete Poetry of John Milton | |||
| Revised Edition | Literature | |||
| John T Shawcross | ||||
| Anchor 1971 654 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0385023510 | ||||
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| This is the first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. Collations of all known manuscripts have been made for each poem, and each work is arranged chronologically with the sequence explained. Included here are Milton's works in Latin, Greek, and Italian, along with new, literal translations by the editor. | ||||
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The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Quercus 2007 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1847241042 | ||||
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| The Enthusiast is a 'non-literary literary magazine' dedicated to 'plain living and high thinking'. Here, its anonymous editor presents a characteristically original, irreverent yet authoritative anthology of 150 poems, along with an introduction ('What is a poem?') and thought-provoking commentary and notes on each poem. The anthology embraces a vast range of poets, from Sappho (c. 7th cntury BCE) to Geoffrey Hill (b.1932), and obscure works along with poems as famous as Paradise Lost and If. | ||||
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Karl Krolow and the Poetics of Amnesia in Postwar Germany | |||
| Literature | ||||
| Neil H Donahue | ||||
| Camden House 2002 285 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1571132511 | ||||
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| Karl Krolow (1915-1999) was one of the most prominent German poets of the second half of the twentieth century. This study locates for the first time the hidden thread that runs through Krolow's work: his uneasy relationship to the recent German past, including Nazi regime, the war, and the Holocaust. No jacket. | ||||
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'Itching After Rhyme' | |||
| A Life of John Clare | Literature | |||
| Arnold Clay | ||||
| Parapress 2000 130 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1898594686 | ||||
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| A biography of the poet of English rural life John Clare (1793-1864), telling of his passion for rhyme against a background of poverty and illness, and the sense of isolation and despair that led to his alcoholism and mental breakdown. | ||||
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Hokusai: One Hundred Poets | |||
| One Hundred Poets | Literature | |||
| Peter Morse | ||||
| George Braziller 1989 222 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0807612138 250x346mm | ||||
| Published Price $95.00 | Our Price £30.00 | |||
| Begun in his 76th year, the last of Hokusai's great print series accompanies and interprets the great classical anthology of Japanese literature, One Hundred Poets. Only 27 prints were ever completed (including Kiyowara no Kukayabu, right), but designs for another 64 subjects still exist. This beautifully produced volume presents both finished prints and designs - 89 subjects altogether - each in a full-page reproduction with the poem in transliteration and translation and Morse's commentary on both poem and picture on the facing page. | ||||
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In Memory Of My Feelings | |||
| A Selection of Poems by Frank O'Hara | Literature | |||
| Bill Berkson (Edited by) | ||||
| Museum of Modern Art 2005 224 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0870705105 302x227mm | ||||
| Published Price $65.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| A tribute to poet Frank O'Hara published by New York's Museum of Modern Art for which he worked as associate curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, celebrating his status as a quintessential American poet and his contributions to the New York cultural scene. | ||||
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