Complete Poems
9 best books like Complete Poems (Basil Bunting): Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons, The Collected Poems, Ode to the West Wind, Field Work, The Art of Fiction, The Jolly Corner, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Ode to a Nightingale, A Grief Observed
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0896214400 |
"Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption is subtitled 'Hope Springs Eternal' - and that perfectly sums up the soul of his book.
It's hope that keeps you going - even after everything horrible...
| Author | Theodore Roethke |
| ISBN | 0385086016 |
There a several poems by Roethke that I quite like. Once in a while I think he is brilliant. But I've decided I can't read collections of his work. There is too much I don't care for, and too much repetition -- primarily repetition of a mood of self-absorption that gets old fast. Lust, guilt, poor you, whatever....
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ISBN | 0946497079 |
Read in The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2
I've quite enjoyed some of Shelley's shorter poetry and I'd been itching to read this. It's a really lovely poem, with very strong themes of nature, mortality, and revolution and change. If you are new to poetry or unfamiliar with...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374516200 |
"Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1172438099 |
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. ”
― Henry James
The short essay Criticism, the focus of my review, is part of this collection which includes...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1419167936 |
The Jolly Corner was first published in 1908 in The English Review. Henry James describes the adventures of Spencer Brydon as he explores the empty New York house where he grew up. He encounters a "sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity." The Jolly Corner is the...
| Author | Vincent B. Leitch |
| ISBN | 0393974294 |
This book does offer a huge selection of important critics. It is nice and heavy, and has a cool dust cover. As an introduction to theory for students, however, it is a bit overwhelming and doesn't offer much in the way of engagement with texts that other lit crit anthologies, such as Shirley Staton's "Literary...
Beautiful. Keats addresses the tragedy of life, where men are resigned to " sit and hear each other groan...where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies". But he juxtaposes this with the nightingale, his "immortal bird", whose song echoes through the ages being heard by the high and mighty and...
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 and concerns the death of C. S. Lewis's wife, the American-born poet Joy Davidman. In her introduction to this new edition, Madeleine L'Engle writes: "I am grateful to Lewis for having the courage to yell,...
