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Percy Bysshe Shelley : Poems Selected by Fiona Sampson by Fiona Sampson; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Maurice Riordan
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Rom ...Show more
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin
Category: Biography | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, w ...Show more
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis by Philip Larkin
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. "Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of d ...Show more
Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Shakespeare's Sonnets" are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the read ...Show more
Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
Selected Poems of Christopher Logue by Christopher Logue
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The arrangement of these Selected Poems demonstrates the consistency of Christopher Logue's vision as it matured through a varied career. He published his first books in the early 1950s, in Paris, where he was associated with Alexander Trocchi, Samuel Beckett and Maurice Girodias. Returning to London in ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot; Seamus Heaney (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this c ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land". Other volumes in this series, includ ...Show more
Selected Poetry and Prose by Mew, Charlotte and Copus, Julia(Edited by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The best of Charlotte Mew's poetry and prose selected by Julia Copus, in the 150th anniversary of Mew's birth.
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as "Bloody Men," "Men and Their Boring Arguments," "Two Cures for Love," "Kindness to Animals" and ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrate ...Show more