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A poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to make themselves understood by people indigenous to the island, had there been any.

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Her new book, invaluable for all who want to write as well as read poems, reveals the journey of thought, language and music within sixty more poems and also shows how poems fortify us on the journey of our lives, in a collection of essays written in elegant, accessible prose.

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Critical notes and scholarly comments accompany Venus and Adonis, the rape of Lucrece, the phoenix and turtle, A lover's complaint, and Sonnets.

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An important work of literary scholarship which highlights, for the first time, the achievement of a neglected modernist master.

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An important work of literary scholarship which highlights, for the first time, the achievement of a neglected modernist master - now in paperback.

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Collected edition gathers deftly crafted, dark, erotic poems of author of Hare Soup and Gethsemane Day with new unpublished material.

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The authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets.

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Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds.

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The must-have Derek Walcott collection, encompassing all of his best-known and most popular poems.

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Offers an anthology that is suitable for poetry lovers and romantics everywhere.

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In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, acclaimed essayist and poet Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos Williams' commitment to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey.

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The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion ofl'art pour l'art - art for art's sake.

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This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of Wordsworth's works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as `I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' and `She Was a Phantom of Delight'.

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This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern reaching from the First World War to contemporary apocalypse. Both are remarkable additions to an important body of work.

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From the 1992 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling journey between exile and belonging, Europe and the New World, wanderlust and the inevitable pull of home.

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Poems deal with feelings, mortality, grief, nature, marriage, myth, and love.

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Moving on to explore the constructed nature of childhood, via a long poem imagining her mothers experiences in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and in an elegy for Seamus Heaney, the poems also seek to contrast the isolation and privacy of an experience of family life with increasingly pervasive and relentless digital technologies.

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Included in this volume are the original two-canto version of The Rape of the Lock and Popes hilarious mock-interpretation of the poem as a seditious work, A Key to the Lock.

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The author was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This book includes selections of his work that follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime.

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This collection includes many of Pope's principal works, including the famous mock-epic "The Rape of the Lock, O OWindsor Forest, O OEssay on Man, O OEloisa to Abelard, O OEssay on Criticism," and his satirical masterpiece "The Dunciad." Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

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An individual and dryly witty poetry collection by one of the most brilliant poetic voices from Ireland.