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During Iolo Morganwg's lifetime Britain was obsessed with literary forgery. This book reveals the unexpected connections and hidden influences behind Britain's most successful (and hence, perhaps, least visible) Romantic forger. It explores Iolo's own strongly-held ideas about the Truth-historical, literary and religious.

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A quest narrative, but a tale in which there can be no 'one' hero. This long poem sails along the coast of ethics and find safe harbour in our hands, our mouths, and our memories.

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A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Awardwinning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.

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Earnest and confessional in the best sense, Maybe's poems about self and vulnerability are revelatory.

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This guide to Dylan Thomas's "Collected Poems, 1934-1953" consists of detailed explications of every poem in the collection. Working from the principle that Thomas's biography offers the key to his poetry, the author integrates critical commentary with biographical detail to elucidate his works.

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This guide to Dylan Thomas's "Collected Poems, 1934-1953" consists of detailed explications of every poem in the collection. Working from the principle that Thomas's biography offers the key to his poetry, the author integrates critical commentary with biographical detail to elucidate his works.

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This text examines the relationship between literature and history in Lazamon's "Brut", a 12th-century verse history of Britain, while demonstrating Lazamon's use of prophecy as a strategy to unite political and religious ideologies.

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Combines the two distinct but related themes of love and romance, this giftbook illustrates texts with the images of medieval romances. It also juxtaposes words of love alongside images of gold jewellery and other inscribed mementoes. The introduction explains the medieval fascination with the quest and its ideals of beauty and chivalry.

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Renowned critic and bestselling writer Clive James sets down his thoughts on the art form which matters to him most: poetry.

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This introduction to the Canterbury Tales gives separate readings of each tale, together with expositions of the historical and literary backgrounds. Using modern theoretical perspectives, the book focuses particularly on gender, political and narratological approaches.

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The Burns Encyclopaedia was first published in 1959 by Maurice Lindsay and this is the fourth edition - the first since 1980. All aspects of Robert Burns' biography and literary output are covered, as are his correspondents and contemporaries, many of the latter set against the backdrop of Enlightenment Edinburgh.

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This collection of poems is a blend of modern and ancient wisdom and an exploration of the mysteries of the body. The bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death and resurrection - encountering pathologists' blades, geneticists' maps and the wounds of love and w

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These precise, wounded poems draw the reader through this desolate landscape - through sexual longing, sexual violence, bereavement and the beginning of hope through the birth of a son.

Dammtor restlessly narrates the condition of maleness, looking for truth and music in a voice which is both urgent and unadorned.

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Though firmly rooted in the domestic, natural world, Jean Sprackland's poems are thrilling excursions into the lives that we live alongside our everyday ones: the lives we are aware of in dreams, in grief, in love.

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