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Acclaimed literary historian Schmidt provides a unique meditation on the rediscovery of Gilgamesh and its profound influence on poets today. He describes how the poem is a work in progress even now, an undertaking that has drawn on the talents and obsessions of an unlikely cast of characters, from archaeologists and museum curators to tomb raiders and jihadis.

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What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.

The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and times.

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A lively and accessible account of the lives and works of the great Greek poets.

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Over 150 of the 20th century's most significant poems.

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An essential introduction to the most significant poems from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - from Thomas Hardy and W.B Yeats to Sylvia Plath and Langston Hughes.

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A stunning volume of epic breadth which connects the lives and works of over 300 English-language poets of the last 700 years.