The Works of W.B. Yeats
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| Author | Siegfried Sassoon |
| ISBN | 0571202659 |
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this book tells us, irritated in his later years at always being thought of as a "war poet". Understandable perhaps from the point of view of the poet: readers on the other hand might wish to demur. The poems gathered...
| 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....
From the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, 'The Nation's Favourite Love Poems' will meet all your romantic requirements. In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes:...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 1853264059 |
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Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling...
| Author | Alfred Tennyson |
| ISBN | 1853264148 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 1853264202 |
There are some truly outstanding poems in this collection. The most well known among them would be 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner', although Christabel is one of my personal favourites.
There are varying themes within this volume, ranging from love and loss and bereavement, to praise for...
| Author | Christina Rossetti |
| ISBN | 1853264296 |
Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rossetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable...
| Author | Tim Dowley |
| ISBN | 0800634969 |
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| Author | John Donne |
| ISBN | 1853264008 |
John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne's poetry combines paradoxical wit, scientific and theological learning with the rhythms and diction...
In asking "Who, as a writer, am I?" e.e. Cummings's affirmation of life resolved into serenity as he described himself as someone "whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow." This collection of Cummings reading his own poetry embodies this in an unforgettable way.
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| ISBN | 1594160600 |
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| ISBN | 1840465832 |
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| ISBN | 1592400809 |
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Art of the Twentieth Century
| Author | Ingo F. Walther |
| ISBN | 3822859079 |
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| ISBN | 0749259744 |
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| Author | Chambers |
| ISBN | 0550101853 |
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This for me, as I'm English (UK), has to be the best and most informative. I have other dictionaries,...
| Author | Chris Rodrigues |
| ISBN | 1840462299 |
Before reviewing this book,I would like to take you to the place where I read this. It was a place with thousands of books and I read this sitting in a corner by the philosophy shelf(there were chairs but I felt this way better). And there were many old books,and many new. I like the smell of old books better...
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
| Author | Alan Duff |
| ISBN | 0099760819 |
Alan Duff's follow up to Once Were Warriors follows a carefuly crafted redemption arc. It's a novel largely set within the realm of reflection, rumination, slow-burning realization and eventual exoneration. The first half of the novel is dominated by interior monologue, some of which rivals anything...
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| ISBN | 0198600887 |
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| ISBN | 0812968638 |
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime's work by one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich examines Europe's long history of violence against its Jewish populations, looks at the forces that shaped Hitler's belief in...
| Author | D.G. Hessayon |
| ISBN | 0903505355 |
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