 | The Hunting of the Snark (Graphic Novel)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Graphic Novel The Hunting of the Snark,Lewis Carroll’s classic masterpiece of nonsense verse, takes the readeron a wonderfully witty and inventive hunt for the ever-elusive Snark.The tantalizing mysteries of the poem are here perfectly matched inthese brilliant new illustrations by artist Mahendra Singh, who hascreated a visual treasure hunt, full of riddles, puns, and allusions. When asked what his poem meant, Carroll would always reply that he didnot know. But, on one occasion, he did write to friends that perhaps“…the who...
 |  | To a Fault: Poems
Publication Date: October 17, 2007Winner of the 2005 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature; winner of the 2005 Ireland Chair forPoetryAward; the only poetry book long-listed for the Guardian First BookAward."A confident hybrid of voices and styles…tenderand brilliant."—Irish TimesJourneying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, Nick Laird balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remainoutside. Dexterous, fresh, and deft, To aFault does "more, in its range andambition, than any other first collection…in atleast the last ten years...
|  | Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1857548892 | ISBN-13: 978-1857548891Two literary criticism pieces that have shaped approaches to teaching poetry since the 1950s are now available in one volume with a new foreword. Providing a brilliantly detailed analysis of the workings of English poetry, this collection focuses on the technical workings of poetic language, examining devices such as meter and diction. These explorations use examples from poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot, and Yeats. ...
|  | The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Oxford Paperbacks)
Publication Date: March 18, 1976| ISBN-10: 0192810944 | ISBN-13: 978-0192810946| Edition: 4 Fourth ed. based on the First ed. of 1918 and enl. to incorporate all known Poems and Fragments.Ed. with additional notes, a Foreword on the Revised Text, and a new biographical and critical introd. by W.H. Gardner and N.H. MacKenzie. ...
|  | Collected Poems
Release Date: March 6, 2007The collected works of one of the finest lyric poets of our time. Longley's genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires and translations from classical poets. Seamus Heaney has called him "a keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders." ...
|  | Savitri: A Legend & A Symbol - New U.S.Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 1995| Series: Guidance from Sri Aurobindo In this epic spiritual poem, Sri Aurobindo reveals his vision of mankind's destiny within the universal evolution.He sets forth the optimistic view that life on earth has a purpose, and he places our travail within the context of this purpose: to participate in the evolution of consciousness that represents the secret thread behind life on Earth. ...
|  | Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: February 5, 1992| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems and political events. These include "Consolation," "The Cry of the Human," "A Curse for a Nation," "The Forced Recruit," "To Flush, My Dog," and others. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. ...
|  | Milton's Rival Hermeneutics: "Reason Is But Choosing" (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
Publication Date: April 15, 2012| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies Recent critical conversation has described John Milton's major works as sites of uncertainty, irreconcilability, or even confusion as texts that actually reflect radical incoherence and openness. These newer critical voices posit, moreover, that traditional critics must strain to find coherence and authorial control in Milton's poetry. Richard DuRocher and Margaret Thickstun, together with an esteemed group of Milton scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical backgrounds, respond to this challenge. ...
|  | Milton: Paradise Lost (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
Publication Date: November 10, 2003| ISBN-10: 052153979X | ISBN-13: 978-0521539791| Edition: 2 Offering a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of Western literature, this book highlights Milton's imaginative daring, in considering the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology. It situates Milton's great poem in its literary, religious, and political contexts and includes an extremely useful and newly updated guide to further reading. First Edition Hb (1993): 0-521-39303-5First Edition Pb (1993): 0-521-39899-1 ...
|  | The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Publication Date: November 2, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521028671 | ISBN-13: 978-0521028677| Edition: 1 The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important and original reevaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature.Starting with Butler's outrageous burlesque, Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes the origins of Augustan satire and its momentous departure from the religious and social writing of an earlier era. He goes on to explain the creation, from the ruins of satire, of a new poetry of nature and everyday life (emerging most significantly in the work of Pope and T...
|  | Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
Release Date: August 21, 1997'The annotation is consistently thoughtful and well judged, giving plenty of precise help with lexical and syntactical problems, and offering valuable verbal and cultural analogues from contemporary literature' 'No edition of these difficult and controversial poems will command agreement at all points, but this must now be the edition of first resort' Paul Hammond, Review of English Studies'sharpens our focus on the documentary record of the Sonnets, and gives the best scholarly account yet of some of its words.' Alastair Fowler, Times Literary Supplement"The new...
|  | Landing Light: Poems
Release Date: June 27, 2006Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed collection by Scottish poet Don Paterson, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize Dear son, I was mezzo del camminand the true path was as lost to me as everwhen you cut in front and lit it as you ran.See how the true gift never leaves the giver . . .--from "Waking with Russell"Hailed for its "seriousness and moral urgency" (The Independent), Landing Light is one of the most important and resonant poetry collections to come out of Britain in recent years. ...
|  | "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare
Publication Date: November 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 0374528691 | ISBN-13: 978-0374528690| Edition: 1st Hail, humble Helpstone ... Where dawning genius never met the day, Where useless ignorance slumbers life awayUnknown nor heeded, where low genius triesAbove the vulgar and the vain to rise.--from "Helpstone""I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of the great "peasant poet"'s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers fortwo centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childho...
|  | Forever and Ever: Devotional Poems
Publication Date: June 20, 2012Forever and Ever is a collection of devotional poems-hymns of praise and somber elegies-written in 1952 and 1953 and dedicated to Adolf Hitler.Forever and Ever is one of three books left unpublished when Savitri Devi died in 1982. The manuscript was long thought to be lost. But in 2006, a French friend of Savitri contacted the Savitri Devi Archive with the news that all three volumes were extant.Forever and Ever is the first of Savitri Devi's long-awaited posthumous works to be published. This volume also includes an additional poem, "In Memory of May 1st, 1945...
|  | The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 3, 2003| Series: Oxford World's Classics John Dryden (1631-1700) was the leading writer of his day and a major cultural spokesman following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. His work includes political poems, satire, religious apologias, translations, critical essays and plays. This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Dryden's poetry and prose--all the major poems in full, literary criticism, and translations--to give the essence of his work and thinking.The collection includes the poems, MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel as well ...
|  | Anathemata: Fragments of an Attempted Writing
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|  | Magic Windows
Release Date: February 13, 1981A collection of poems illustrated with drawings and circular pictures with parts that can be moved by a ribbon to reveal a new picture. ...
|  | Layamon's Arthur: The Arthurian Section of Layamon's Brut (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0859896854 | ISBN-13: 978-0859896856| Edition: 2nd Layamon's Brut is a landmark in English literature, the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest, and the precursor of a rich Arthurian literature, from Malory to Tennyson and on to our own time. This edition combines a fully-edited version of the original text with a close parallel prose translation, together with a lengthy Introduction, textual notes and a full and up-to-date bibliography. Written c.1200-1220, the Brut develops the themes of its principal source, Robert Wace...
|  | In Memoriam: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
Publication Date: February 1974| ISBN-10: 0393093794 | ISBN-13: 978-0393093797| Edition: annotated edition The text of "In Memoriam" reprinted in this Norton Critical Edition is that of the Eversley Edition of Tennyson's "Works, " published in 1907-8, edited by the poet's son, Hallam, Lord Tennyson, and annotated by Tennyson himself. The present editior has included many of Tennyson's and Hallam's notes in addition to his own, which are directed to today's reader. ...
|  | 1000 Years of Irish Poetry: The Gaelic and Anglo Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present
Publication Date: November 25, 2000You can find almost anything in it.We very much doubt anyone is going to producebetter anthology of Irish poetry than this one.--The New York Times ...
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