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'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world'
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived, and his...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-12
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The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer.Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven Elements', they...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-06-25
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THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE AUTHORONE BILLION COPIES SOLDApart from being a prolific novelist, Danielle Steel writes poetry. This is a collection which covers her thoughts and feelings over a period of fifteen years.Danielle says: 'This is a special book about special people....
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2015-05-28
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From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela...
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Virago
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2015-03-31
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The history of the epic-ranging from the heroic narratives of cultural origin found in Homer and Virgil to the tumultuous theological and political conflicts depicted by Dante or Milton-is nearly as old as literature itself. But the epic is also made and remade by its...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-12
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A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry Situates the story of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-02
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Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2015-02-16
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'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mindThat I am forever waking in a lost country...'SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both 'gifts and harms'. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-02-12
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Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do. Rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical and full of memorable lines, his poems are anthology favourites; his 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood a modern classic....
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-10-09
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The perfect Christmas present for dog lovers.'Delights on every page . . . the man knows what he's barking at' Lady'Christopher Matthew is a comic genius' Sandi ToksvigFrom Ozymandias the Steve McQueen of Springers whose acrobatic sex life rivals Errol Flynn's, to...
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Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2014-10-02
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This book considers the lyric poems written by John Clare and three twentieth-century poets--Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery--who turned to him at pivotal moments in their own development. These writers crafted a distinctive mode of lyric, 'Clare's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-04-10
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Shortlisted for the 2014 TS Eliot PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best First CollectionPoetry Book Society ChoiceIn this remarkable debut poetry collection, National Book Award finalist and Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers creates a startling, affecting...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2014-04-03
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The award-winning author ofThe Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection. National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2014-04-01
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These unknown and sometimes unexpected poems by the Orcadian master have all his characteristic simplicity and power.In these poems readers will find new ideas previously unexplored, but they will also find those qualities that made George Mackay Brown different from...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-03-27
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A country boy creeps unwillingly to school on a lark-filled summer morning. Norse crusaders, preparing to sail on Earl Rognvald's crusade in 1151 break into the burial chamber at Maeshowe seeking treasure, and cut runes in its massive stones. And the famous Iceland poet...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-03-27
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Interviewed in 1966, Geoffrey Hill said, 'Language contains everything you want - history, sociology, economics: it is a kind of drama of human destiny'. This book shows how the work of one of the major post-war writers in English has been charged by a mythological...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-27
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This collection featuring nearly 50 memorable poems from some of the best writers of the time: Rupert Brooke, Siegried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Ivan Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edward Thomas, and many more. Vividly expressing the ravages of war fought on...
Editeur :
RP Minis
Parution :
2014-03-25
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RP Minis
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Hunting of the Snark - With the Original High Resolution Illustrations of Henry Holiday” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Hunting of the Snark is a nonsense poem written by Lewis...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-27
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Poetry Collections of Lewis Carroll” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of Contents:
Early Verse
Puzzles from Wonderland
Prologues to Plays
Rhyme? And Reason?
College...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-27
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Poetry & Sonnets of William Shakespeare” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: The Sonnets Venus And Adonis The Rape Of Lucrece The Passionate Pilgrim The Phoenix...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-26
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