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This is a study of the work of James Hanley, who was brought up in Liverpool and worked as a merchant seaman before becoming a professional writer. It discusses Hanley's relationship to London and the institutional culture of high modernism, and his association with Wales.

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A comparative reading of Donne's poetry and prose, which eschews questions of personal or religious sincerity in order to recreate an image of John Donne as a man of many performances -- .

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This collection of essays explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading, writing, teaching, editing, publishing, and reviewing it.

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Robert Bly is one of the major literary figures of the second half of the 20th Century.

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A thought-provoking, sustained meditation on sex, love, power, and poetry.

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A scholarly discussion of the images found in late 19th century/early 20th century lyrical poetry in Wales, at a time of far-reaching social change.

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Reputation of Louis Aragon (1897-1982) is built upon his activities during the Second World War when his poetry embodied the spirit of the French Resistance. This book goes beyond the figure of the Resistance poet to explore the significance of the subject of war throughout his career.

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This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and religious lyrics and nine complete or extracted longer works, all translated into Modern English verse that closely resembles the original forms.

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This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and religious lyrics and nine complete or extracted longer works, all translated into Modern English verse that closely resembles the original forms.

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'Modernism from the Margins' is an account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the period as Auden-dominated and offers a theoretical account of the engagement of both writers with the varieties of Modernism.

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Presents a full-length study (in English) of the work of the Argentine poet and anthropologist Nestor Perlongher (1949-92). This book analyses and contextualizes his work whilst offering tools for reading and understanding the challenging and experimental poetry.

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Juan Felipe Herrera, son of Mexican immigrants, is the new Poet Laureate of the U.S., the nations first Latino laureate.

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Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity to the present in all its aspects, including forms of oral poetry, the epic in the West and other parts of the globe and styles of performance.

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Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Dorianne Laux, and 17 other prominent poets candidly discuss inspiration, craft, and living as a poet.

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Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c 535-600) has long been mined as a historical source for Merovingian society, a focus that overshadows an appreciation of the poems' literary value. This title offers free-verse translations of Fortunatus' personal poetry.

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Comprises of a study of poetry produced in Austria between the demise of the Third Reich and Austria's re-attainment of sovereignty in 1955. This book demonstrates the problems for modern poetry in the handing of historical events. It offers the understanding of Austrian poetry and the reworking of an Austrian literary identity.

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This text provides a discussion of poetry's relation to place, and its role in the self-definition of communities as the monolithic ideologies of the nation-states fragment into a mosaic of peoples, languages, cultures and between-cultures. The text ranges from the Elizabethan period to the 1990s.