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R. S. Thomas by Anthony Thwaite (Editor); R. S. Thomas
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman Poetry Ser.
R.S. Thomas's poetry, coloured by personal experience on Wales, is stark but passionate. This book contains both texts and commentary.
ROME POETRY OF PLACE by PURSGLOVE GLYNN
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry of Place Ser.
All roads lead to Rome, yet despite the triumphant remains of forum, Imperial arch, public baths, gilded basilica and palace, it is only the bright flame of passion-filled poetry that can truly bring its past to life. Rome, the beating heart where all the great English romantic hero-poets, including Kea ...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
Revolving Days by David Malouf
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
An up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with their grace and intelligence, remain among the finest examples of the Australian lyric. An essential compendium for all lovers of literature.
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
Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Fiction | Series: Poetry for Young People S.
He told us how the elephant got its trunk and the leopard its spots, and his classic "Jungle Book" entranced young readers for years even before it inspired a much-loved Disney film. His exquisitely crafted, rhythmic poems practically beg to be read aloud; their musical cadences captivate children. Add ...Show more
Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling; Jan Hewitt (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman Poetry Ser.
These volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Book,"
SKIN PAINTING by HODGSON ELIZABETH
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
This collection of poetry considers the nature of memory and its historical and emotional significance. Hodgson's use of language is matched by the imagery and structure as she explores themes of art, identity, sexuality and loneliness. The poems reference widely and have the impact and haunting qualiti ...Show more
SONNETS TO ORPHEUS & DUINO ELEGIES by RILKE RAINER MARIA
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
During three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus. Inspired by the death of a friend's daughter, the poet felt that he was being compelled to write by the girl's ghost. At about the same time he also completed Duino Elegies, which he had b ...Show more
Satan Repentant by Michael Aiken
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
A violent epic leaping from the cosmological to the infinitesimal, Satan Repentant is a modern-day drama of revenge, resentment, and remorse, telling a new myth of what would happen if Satan tried to apologise and atone for all his crimes. Through that story, it explores ideas of power, of authority to ...Show more
Sea, Land, Shadow by Shiraishi, Kazuko, Tsumura, Yumiko
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep --from Sea, Land, Shadow Sea, Land, Shadow, the fourth collection by Kazuko Shiraishi to be published by New Directions, comprises work written over sixty-years, from 1951 to 2015. Shiraishi, described by Don ...Show more
Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Pleiade Ser.
Frank O'Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate ('any time, any place'). This is not the whole O'Hara: he may have scribbled poems on serviettes, but others he worked ...Show more