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By: Ben Jonson
ISBN: 9780571226795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born in London, and became a leading poet, playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age. In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, and by 1616 had re-established enough Court favour to be awarded a pension by James I - i
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By: Frederick Rebsamen
ISBN: 9780060573782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A new translation of the first narrative poem in the English language closely follows the original poetic form and includes an introduction that discusses the poem's historical background, structure, form, principal characters, religion, and importance. Reprint.
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By: J.G. Nichols
ISBN: 9781847497949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Beowulf is a unique and compelling mix of sixth-century historical events, Christian commentary, Germanic myth and Anglo-Saxon culture. The poem is presented here in a dual-text format with a new translation by multi-award-winning translator J.G. Nichols. " Also contains notes and extra material.
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By: Ottilie Mulzet
ISBN: 9781681370545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 12th January 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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A title, in which paraphrases and reworked quotations, draw upon the vanished prewar legacy, particularly its German Jewish aspects, that appear in sharp juxtaposition with images of post-1989 Berlin frantically rebuilding itself in the wake of German unification.
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By: David Lehman
ISBN: 9781501127809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: David Lehman
ISBN: 9781501127793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Service R
ISBN: 9780762414598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Publisher: Running Press,U.S.
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"In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the f"
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By: John Betjeman
ISBN: 9781848540927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An affectionate and unabashed celebration of Englishness from one of the nation's most popular poets
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By: Paul Vermeersch
ISBN: 9780771087448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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By: John Hollander
ISBN: 9781841597669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2005
Publisher: Everyman
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Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil summons Aeneas's wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board.
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By: Mary Di Michele
ISBN: 9781770413702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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By: Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 9780061726491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Kristin Naca
ISBN: 9780061782343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Liz Berry
ISBN: 9780701188573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014
*PBS Recommendation 2014*
When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me
In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut;
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By: Jeremy Reed
ISBN: 9780720608717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1992
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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By: Toby Martinez de las Rivas
ISBN: 9780571333790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From the brave and visionary poet of Terror (2014) comes a sequel of poise and clarity
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By: Sir Paul McCartney
ISBN: 9780571209927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Sharing the preoccupations of the songs and including moving elegies to Paul's wife, Linda, they give us unique access to the inner life of one of the most influential figures in popular culture of the last fifty years.
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By: M Francis
ISBN: 9780571331147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Matthew Francis's evocative and exhilarating debut collection, reissued twenty years after its first appearance.
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By: Henri Cole
ISBN: 9780374603212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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"Whether he is wrestling with the mundane, history and its disasters, or sexual love, [Cole] can sound both classical and contemporary, with the modern austerity of Cavafy and Bishop. Often exploring the darker places of the heart, his sonnets do not lie down obediently, but spark with an honest self-awareness"--Publisher marketing.
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By: Patrick McGuinness
ISBN: 9780224098311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Saigyo
ISBN: 9781645473633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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"A introduction to the life of Saigyo, from his day job as court minister in the throes of political maneuvering, to the renunciant poet he became"--
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By: Susan Mallory
ISBN: 9781098320263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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The narrative poems in Blue Amen reflect Susan Mallory's keen eye for detail. Ideas and imagery connect a wide range of subject matter: music, art, animals, birth and death, love and aging. She captures the peculiarities of people, places and objects, managing, in some of the poems, to obliquely impart a little wisdom.
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By: Carol Muske-Dukes
ISBN: 9780143131250
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781841597584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2003
Publisher: Everyman
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The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W.
