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Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss' collaborator on such operas as "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" has obscured his other remarkable writings. This title is an introduction to the enormous range of this artist. It is a collection of his writings in English.

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A poet-priest of the late Edo period, Ryokan (1758-1831) was the most important Japanese poet of his age. This volume contains not only the largest English translation yet made of his principal poems, but also an introduction that sets the poetry in its historical and literary context and a biographical sketch of the poet himself. Originally publi

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Translated by George Krapp, "Troilus and Criseyde" contains an introduction by Peter Beidler and notes by Cindy Vitto.

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Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, this poem relates how Troilus persuades Crisyede to become his lover, only to be forced apart by the events of war. This edition contains an introduction that places the poem in the context of its times, with notes and appendices.

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Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, this poem of Chaucer relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede.

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Roald Dahl and Quention Blake meets Tim Burton in sassy poet Laura Dockrills edgy and hilarious tale

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This edition was originally aimed at sixth-form level students and undergraduates, but the extensive Vocabulary and Notes make it suitable for GCSE level too. The Introduction gives an outline of the background knowledge needed by a beginner in Virgilian studies and Book XII gives an excellent taster of the epic as a whole.

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The description for this book, Visiting Rites, will be forthcoming.

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The description for this book, Visiting Rites, will be forthcoming.

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Describing this collection of his poems, John Allman writes, "It is a book about the inner and outer worlds, a collection of multiple voices and relationships. In one sense it is about suffering, family, and survival. However, it is also about a world beyond such things, where identity burns by itself, where the self-changes but never dies. The boo

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Most of these poems first appeared in Poetry magazine in the decade from 1967-76 and quickly became underground classics. Brought together here--with more recent work--they reveal their coherence and their urgency. From "Blake's Seasons": "To Spring" My God! The morning buttonholed me and you, Young Spring, slid down the facets from its crystal-Li

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Weyland is an epic poem telling the story of Weyland, in Norse myth a smith who is crippled and imprisoned by the mad King Nud. This version of the poem has been created by Peter Oswald, in a composition devised with the help of the renowned trumpeter Martin Holland.

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From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, the author grew from an aspiring poet by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting modernist poetry around a complex system of symbolism. This volume proffers lush images of western Ireland full of faeries and otherworldly beings.

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Combines the popular Bruce Simpson classics "Packhorse Drove" and "Hell, Highwater & Hard Cases". Simpson - bushman, storyteller and poet, is the voice of the outback drover, recollecting life in the bush on horseback.

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Ntozake Shangethe cultural icon whose play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, was adapted into a feature filmfiercely confronts issues relating to race and feminism in this beautiful bilingual (English and Spanish) collection of new and selected poems.

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This epic poem of military prowess and courtly love tells the story of the love of Willehalm for Giburc, a Saracen woman converted to Christianity, and its consequences. Seeking revenge for the insult to their faith, her relatives initiate a religious war but are finally routed.

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