Collected Poems
10 best books like Collected Poems (John Betjeman): The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, The Collected Poems, Death of a Naturalist, The Nation's Favourite Poems: Book 1, E. M. Forster: A Life, Touch the Earth, The Hawk in the Rain, The Complete Poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
| Author | Matthew George Walter |
| ISBN | 0141180099 |
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here...
| Author | A.E. Housman |
| ISBN | 0805005471 |
Introduction, by Nick Laird
--A Shropshire Lad
Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0571202403 |
Some books are thin and light, yet they carry so much weight, like Heaney's Death of a Naturalist. Each poem in this collection is a work of art, a masterpiece. There is neither pretentiousness nor symbolism here. The collection is one of his most accessible and the best place to start with his work. Each...
| Author | Griff Rhys Jones |
| ISBN | 0563387823 |
In a nationwide poll to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If...' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together the results of the poll in a collection of the nation's 100 best loved poems. Among the selection are popular classics such as Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shallott'...
| Author | P.N. Furbank |
| ISBN | 0156286513 |
I’ve owned this two-in-one volume for years and finally opened it after Jasmine's wonderful essay-review of Maurice had me thinking of Forster’s probable loneliness. Reading this made me feel better about that aspect of his life: yes, there was much (mostly physical) loneliness in his life,...
Read borrowed copy after was suggested to me, published in 1971. Has stories and memories and essays from various Native Americans. Organized by those of Nature, of the white man, their losses and their desire to keep going. The first chapter is my favorite, beautifully written, quite spiritual. A...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0571086144 |
Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. It won the New York Poetry Centre First Publication Award, for which the judges were W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Marianne Moore, and the Somerset Maugham Award, and it was acclaimed by every reviewer from A. Alvarez...
| Author | Philip Larkin |
| ISBN | 0571240062 |
Philip Larkin, the saddest heart in the post-war supermarket... from what we know him best by. But what is striking is the large amount of unpublished material from his early years which strikes another tone, as well as the light verse taken from his letters. The image of the dour faced and sparely written...
| Author | Wendy Cope |
| ISBN | 0571137474 |
When I was at university and writing endless essays about The Waste Land, few things gave me greater pleasure (because I am not a big Eliot fan) than pulling out Wendy Cope's ‘Waste Land Limericks’, in which she condenses the whole poem into five admirably no-nonsense quintains:
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In...
| Author | R.S. Thomas |
| ISBN | 0753811057 |
Is there a good way to write poetry? In the late Sixties, like many thousands of other unwashed urchins, I encountered RS Thomas at school in a slap-in-the-face poem that has puzzled me ever since.
You remember Davies? He died you know
With his face to the wall, as the manner is
Of the poor...
| Author | Grace Paley |
| ISBN | 0374527245 |
A longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an accomplished poet. Combining her two previous collections with unpublished work, Begin Again traces the career of a direct, attentive, and always unpredictable poet. Whether describing...
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| ISBN | 1853753017 |
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
| Author | Isaiah Berlin |
| ISBN | 0691090262 |
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his...
| Author | Cor van den Heuvel |
| ISBN | 0393321185 |
Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates...
| Author | George Seferis |
| ISBN | 0691014914 |
In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition, "George Seferis: Collected Poems"...
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom...
| Author | Constantinos P. Cavafy |
I bought this for a friend a couple of weeks ago.
THEN realised it was MUCH more suited to.....ME !!!!!
After ALL...
I love poetry - Cavafy's too;
I write poetry - Cavafy helped me find my 'voice'(simple and straightforward)...as did John Donne(conversational).
I...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 0333349954 |
I've suddenly found myself enchanted with Barbara Pym's novels, and couldn't resist reading this collection of her journals, letters and notes, edited by her sister and her executor. Her writing and distinct Pymness in these texts is just as delightful as in her novels. She comes across as kind and...
| Author | Simon Armitage |
| ISBN | 0571210767 |
There are lots of reasons for liking a poet. If you have so many they cancel each other out the instant you try and get them down on paper, it's a good sign you've struck gold. That, at least, is how I feel about the poems of Simon Armitage.
Elsewhere Armitage says that he's interested in poems that...
Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos
| Author | Kim Addonizio |
| ISBN | 0446679046 |
As a tattooed woman always searching for more literature on tattoos, I was looking forward to delving into this book. As with any anthology or collection of essays, the quality of the pieces is varied.
It is difficult to convey art in words and that's what tattoos are--art permanently inscribed...
