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

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE

Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798.

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From sonnets and ballads to elegies and intimate blank verse, this collection brings together poetry written throughout Coleridge's life.

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This edition reprints the 1798 and 1817 texts along with critical essays that read "The Rime" from five contemporary critical perspectives: reader response; Marxist; psychoanalytic; deconstructionist; and new historical. An additional essay demonstrates how these various approaches can be combined.

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'A rich poetic experience' (Independent) from the author of A SUITABLE BOY

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Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastoral lifestyle.

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Engaging with Zoroastrian, Chinese and Greek as well as with Scottish antecedents, Crawfords poems have an arresting range and a lyrical energy. Ranging from Jerusalem to Iona, New York City to Shetland, this is a collection of international range that continually zeroes in on the particular and the particularly Scottish.

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These 100 poems written between 1957 and 1996 were chosen by the author. Focusing on themes that have occupied his work for years - land and nature, family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture, the selection celebrates the broad range of this poet.

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Part of Alma Classics new series: 101 Pages, The Single Hound contains some of Dickinsons most original and poignant pieces.

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Jones's visionary collection of poems and fragments published in the months before his death, reissued in paperback with a cover based on the artist's original design.

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Now reissued in the poetry front-list look: Reid's hugely popular narrative poem The Song of Lunch.

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On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a Pyrenean pass. Written by an unknown poet, this book tells of Charlemagne's warrior nephew, Lord of Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies defiant to the end.

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Presented here in a sparkling new translation by Anthony Mortimer along with the original Anglo-Norman French, this poetic masterpiece offers the modern reader both an engrossing narrative and a compelling insight into the medieval value system.

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The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem after poem, is the chance of buoyancy and balance, physical, spiritual and political.

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Longley is well-known for his Homeric versions, and the Iliad is a presiding presence both in poems about the Great War and in the range of imagery that gives his twins death a mythic dimension.

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A lyrical and dramatic collection of poems centered around Shetland from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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An exciting new translation of a classic poem by Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.