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"Intertwining personal essays and interviews with distinguished poets, such as Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez, Patricia Smith and Natasha Trethewey, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up, explores the impact of identity, joy, love, and history on writing and the artistic process in the latter half of the twentieth century"--

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How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible How did Shakespeare's plays lead to the deaths of an earl and a king And why was he the one dramatist of his generation never to be imprisoned This book helps you to understand what being Shakespeare was actually like.

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Continuing where he left off in "A Spillage of Mercury", this collection of poetry from Neil Rollinson delves again into the dark, moist, unexpected bag of human experience. The poems explore the themes of love, sex and life's unpredictable mysteries.

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A unique insight into the life and mind of Seamus Heaney.

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When is seduction about more than just sex In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world.

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Margaret Atwood's exploration of stories and storytelling, myths and their reinventions, fiction and fact, the weirdness of nature, and the strangeness of the Canadian North.

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When his fist album was released in 1967, the author was already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist, and in the United States as the writer behind Judy Collins' popular recording of 'Suzanne'. This book includes lyrics from that album, together with many of his classics, such as 'Suzanne', 'Joan of Arc' and 'The Chelsea Hotel'.

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Studying Literature combines practical advice on study skills, from using the library to preparation for exams, with a comprehensive overview of literary theories and theorists. It is an ideal introduction to the subject for university students. New to this edition is a section on how to access and effectively use digital resources.

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Swimming with my Father

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Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. This title offers an examination of her poetry.

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This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice.

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In this volume of essays addressing the author's drama, novels, short stories and poetry, renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a variety of delightfully original, playful and intriguing studies of Beckett's work. For theatre audiences and Beckett readers it will provide a fresh approach to this great writer.

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and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists.In the light of their wisdom this book examines some of the great situations of our time. the testaments, the betrayed testaments - of Europe, of art, of the art of the novel and of artists.

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'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays.

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The intertwined story of the complex and tumultuous friendship between two literary titans--Hemingway and Dos Passos--whose shared war experiences offer an untapped and revealing window into the role war played in their lives and the literature of the "Lost Generation" that would shape American culture in the twentieth century

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America's foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Walt Whitman to Ralph Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and more.

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In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce.