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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 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 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
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: good-very good
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages ...Show more
The Works of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: very good
This collection contains all the poetry that Thomas produced in a burst of activity between 1914 and his death in the Battle of Arras in 1917. It includes the famous poems, "Adlestrop", "A Cat", "The Owl", "The Glory" and "Old Man".
The Works of John Donne by John Donne
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Category: Art & Music | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: very good
Edited with an Introduction, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography and Glossary by Roy Booth, Royal Holloway College, University of London. 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-ma ...Show more
Works of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Dr Tim Cook. Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates how a poet must be a sharp perceptive observer of the complexity of the human con ...Show more