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Survivors is William Peskett's second book in the Secker & Warburg Poets series. At one level, it marks his move 'From Belfast to Suffolk' (the title of one of the poems), but more importantly it shows him coming to terms with the world of nature and the world of man with a new maturity.

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...we are fixed to perpetrate the species-- I meant perpetuate--as if our duty were coupled with our terror. As if beauty itself were but a syllabus of errors. Troy Jollimore's first collection of poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by the New York Times as "a snappy, entertaining book," and led the San Francisco Chronic

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From laundrettes to contact lenses, Paul McCartney's trousers to plane crashes, this title guides us through the pitfalls and idiosyncrasies of our illogical and unexciting lives, and finds the humour and drama hidden within.

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While seeming to affirm the Western poetic and cultural tradition, Greger attacks its rational heart. The subjects of her poems--Mozart operas, Botticelli's Three Graces, narcissus flowers--are the vestments of aristocratic Europe, but her poetic issue is stream-of-consciousness. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the

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The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. In this study the poetic qualities of epic are analysed and illustrated by frequent quotations from the Latin, always with prose translations. The book will be appreciated by students and teachers of literature, and by knowledgeable non-academic readers.

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"A debut collection from a major new voice in contemporary poetry"--

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Features the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. This title expresses the author's belief that humanity is made up only of offenders, each of us deserving a greater charity for the severity of our crimes.

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In the first part are poems of great satirical comedy and also of great passion and indignation, and in the second part, poems about the break-up of a marriage so intense they would hurt if they weren't also possessed of the healing gifts of truthfulness and humour.

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This volume offers more than 100 poems of Robert Service. Famous for his ballads of life in the Gold Rush years of the Yukon, he also wrote popular verse inspired by the merry, tragic life of bohemian Paris of the early 1900s during World War I.

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Combining a spontaneous lyric gift with a technically perfect mastery of traditional poetic forms, Christina Rossetti created some of the most imaginative and moving verse ever written. The Bible and the Poetry of Christina Rossetti is a complete guide to the work of this great poet.

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This unabridged translation features an Introduction by influential medievalist author and professor John Miles Foley that explores Chaucer's life and times. In this major new translation, Burton Raffel has done a masterful job of carrying Chaucer into modern, highly readable English while retaining the rhythm and formal charm that so distinguish "The Canterbury Tales."--Billy Collins

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"The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press"--Rear cover.

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"The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press"--Rear cover.

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A selection of the "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" that provides an introduction to one of the cornerstones of English literature. It offers character sketches of the colourful band of pilgrims who gather at a London inn on their way to Canterbury. It contains an introduction examining Chaucer's life and work and the literary influences on the Tales.

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Few students read the whole of "The Canterbury Tales, but "Fragment I", which contains the general prologue, "The Knight's Tale", "The Miller's Tale", "The Reeve's Tale" and "The Cook's Tale", raises many of the topics that arise from studying the tales as a whole.

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Contains selections from Open House, The Lost Son and Other Poems, Praise to the End, Words for the Wind, The Waking, I Am! Says the Lamb, and The Far Field in addition to sixteen previously unpublished poems.

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