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The title-sequence of this new collection of poems offers a report from an unnamed war in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked inside the crisis together with the protagonists.

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A wonderful selection of introductions from Josephine Hart's Poetry Hour. It takes us on a journey of the imagination and teaches us why poetry matters

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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. He succeeded to a baronetcy in 1798, and as Lord Byron he was soon to become the most famous poet of his age - with the publication of Childe Harold, in 1812 - as well as one of its most notorious characters.

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Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frosts life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.

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1927. Finding college life "depressing...to a point where [he] could not go on" John "Buffy" Glassco decamped for Paris. Forty years later, he reconstructed this memoir a clef of his rollicking youth among the haute bohemians of the day, including Hemingway, Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Kay Boyle.

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The great Polish poet Aleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the terrible twentieth century.

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"Weaving together the biographies of two poets separated by some eight-hundred years, Robert Richardson brings to life one of the most famous-- and ancient works of poetry in all existence"--Front jacket flap.

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Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Performing his unique archaeology on lives lived, Adam Thorpe once again displays the range of his imagination and the depth of his humanity.

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This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-110) and index.

(Hardback, 2nd Second Edition, New ed.)

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The year 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's signature work, "Howl." Shedding new light on this pioneering cultural work, this collection contains new essays by many of today's most distinguished writers.

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Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. It also reveals that behind the glittering surface of familiar masterpieces The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, the Biographia there is a great but unknown poet still waiting to be discovered.

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A new collection of poems by the winner of the 2001 National Book Award chronicles 40 years in the career of one of the nation's most talented poetic voices.

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A brilliant and accessible introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English Literature.

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Leading poets, critics and theologians explore the writing of a new poetic liturgy and how a creative work can confront issues of faith and 'Englishness'.

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Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, "Sweet Nosegay" (1573) and "The Copy of a Letter" (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with vernacular sources. As well a selection of her original poetry, this volume includes Mary Sidney's version of the Psalms of David and Petrach's "Triumph of Death".

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Aimed at poetry lovers, this work presents a collection of the Scottish Bard's songs and poems.

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Contemporary poet, Stephen Romer, selects and introduces a poet from the past, Robert Herrick.

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Part of Faber's critically accclaimed Poet to Poet series.

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It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. In order to give the greatest possible access to a wonderful poet this selection draws on avariety of translations from the early 20th century to the present, ranging from scholarly renderings to free interpretations.