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The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats
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Category: Fiction | Series: Poetry Library
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a ...Show more
The Complete Works of J.M. Synge by J. M. Synge
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Category: Art & Music | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World and, indeed, this was neither the first nor the last time that Synge's dramas incited passionate disagreements. But, one hundred years on, it's clear that his writings a ...Show more
The Curiosities by Reid, Christopher
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Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Curiosities is the eleventh book of poems from this most inventive and celebrated of British poets. Clustering around the letter 'C', the seventy-some poems that comprise this collection celebrate a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. Here we find tales of cufflinks ...Show more
The Flaw in the Pattern by Rachael Mead
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 'This is an alive, refreshing and, quite literally, elemental book of water and skin, muscle and fire. Rachael Mead's poems are immediate and grounded whilst entwined with fragility and struggle. They don't shy from the diff ...Show more
The Highwayman (Visions in Poetry) by Alfred Noyes & Murray Kimber
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Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Visions in Poetry
"The Highwayman" is the second book in a unique series "Visions in Poetry" featuring classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists.Originally published in 1907, The Highwayman is a haunting ballad of doomed love. Seldom have mood and character been so memorably evoked. The pounding rhyt ...Show more
The Lady of Shalott (Visions in Poetry) by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Category: No Category | Series: Visions in Poetry
The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. TennysonâÃÂÃÂs beautiful and enigmatic poem of unrequited love, set in Arthurian England, has enthralled artists for ...Show more
The Lady of Shalott (Visions in Poetry) by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Visions in Poetry
"The Lady of Shalott" is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. Tennyson's beautiful and enigmatic poem of unrequited love, set in Arthurian England, has enthralled artists for well ov ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018. Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018. Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018. 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' - John Banville, Guardian A noir narrative written with the in ...Show more
The Poetical Works by John Clare
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
John Clare is one of the foremost "peasant poets" of the English language. His fascination with the countryside, with nature and with the seasons and their changing moods marks a departure from the formal pastoral verse of the 18th century.
The Raven (Visions in Poetry) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Visions in Poetry
Visions in Poetry is an exciting and unique series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. The fifth book in the series, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," delves into the hidden horrors of the human psyche. Originally published in 1845, the poem is n ...Show more
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T S Eliot
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Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as w ...Show more
The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry by Marcus Clapham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his ...Show more