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William Shakespeare’s "Sonnets" are the most beautiful example of love poetry ever written. With their uplifting spirit, coherence, intensity and dealing with the passing of age, of time, the evanescence of beauty offset by the permanence of true feelings, the...
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Les Editions de Londres
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2013-06-15
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"An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial TimesWindsor Laferrière left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his father dies in New York, himself an exile for half a century, Windsor...
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Maclehose Press
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2013-02-28
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'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.'
Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.'
Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'
Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'
Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The book situates these writings and this writer within the patronage networks and political...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-14
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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...
Editeur :
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
Collection :
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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