 | The Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe: Volume II (Vol 2) (Oxford English Texts)
Publication Date: May 20, 1999| ISBN-10: 0198182996 | ISBN-13: 978-0198182993This volume completes the first edition of the collected works of the early modern poet and translator Sir Richard Fanshawe, and contains Fanshawe's translation of The Lusiad of Camoes, the single work which affirms his importance in the history of translation. The translation of the Baroque play Querer por solo Querer from the court of Philip IV of Spain is also given, as is Fanshawe's Latin rendering of parts of The Lusiad, printed here for the first time. ...
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Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Oxford World's Classics In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a true translation--his Omar seems to have read Shakespeare and the King James Bible--the poem nevertheless conveyed some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry, and some of the sharpest-edged. By the end of the century, it was one of the best-known poems in the English language, admired by Swinburne and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition ...
|  | Pam Ayres: The Works: The Classic Collection
Release Date: November 1, 2010The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems from the 1970s and 1980s, including The Battery Hen; Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?; Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother; and, of course, Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth. For this new edition Pam has written a general introduction, as well as individual introductions to the poems, many of which are now illustrated with specially commissioned line drawings by Susan Hellard. This is the first time The Works has been available in hardback and is certain to delight Pam's...
|  | The Poems of Charlotte Smith (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
Publication Date: December 9, 1993| ISBN-10: 019508358X | ISBN-13: 978-0195083583Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) was the author of ten novels, a play, and a host of innovative educational books for children, as well as several volumes of poetry that helped set priorities and determine the tastes of the culture of early Romanticism. Her Elegiac Sonnets sparked the sonnet revival in English Romanticism; The Emigrants initiated its passion for lengthy meditative introspection; and Beachy Head lent its poetic engagement with nature a uniquely telling immediacy. Smith was a woman, Wordsworth rema...
|  | The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume IV: Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin (Poetical Works of Christopher Smart Vol. I)
Publication Date: May 21, 1987| ISBN-10: 0198127685 | ISBN-13: 978-0198127680The present volume, which contains miscellaneous English and Latin verse, written throughout his career, shows Smart as he appeared to his contemporaries: a brilliant but wayward scholar, who threw away a life of distinction at Cambridge to engage in the raffish world of the London theaters and pleasure gardens. By presenting the poems in chronological order, it also reveals the pattern of his evolution from both academic and popular roles into a poet dedicated to Christian service. Over thirty pieces in this vo...
|  | Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 (Poets on Poetry)
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Series: Poets on Poetry The reappearance of Philip Larkin's Required Writing will be welcomed by the late poet's many readers and admirers. The book's first two parts, "Recollections" and "Interviews," provide autobiographical glimpses of the very private Larkin's childhood, his youth at Oxford, the genesis of his forty-year career as a librarian, and the influences that initially steered his poetry.The second half of the book reflects Larkin's literary standards and opinions in often witty and surprising, always beautifully wrought, essays and reviews. His...
|  | The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures
Publication Date: April 3, 2002| ISBN-10: 0374528489 | ISBN-13: 978-0374528485| Edition: 1st Sharp-eyed critiques and appreciations of the essential poets of our time. James Fenton is unique among contemporary writers in having achieved equal distinction as a poet and -- in his reportage and criticism -- as a master of trenchant prose. What is more, he has shown himself a devoted critic of both American and British modern poetry, an explainer of each tradition to the other and to itself. In these lectures, delivered at Oxford (where he succeeded Seamus Heaney as Professor of Poetry from ...
|  | New Selected Poems
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 184777167X | ISBN-13: 978-1847771674Spanning four decades of poetry, this indispensable collection features the work of Australia’s Les Murray. Endlessly inventive, these poems celebrate the world and the power of the imagination while clearly expressing the poet’s devotion to place, politics, and the significance of the Australian landscape. ...
|  | Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary (Sawtooth Poetry Prize Series 2005)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Poetry. This book, winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, takes flight from Plato's Theaetetus, in which Socrates tells us that the mind works as an aviary--particles of knowledge fly around like birds, and the thinker plucks them down to use when he or she sees fit. The bird becomes a metaphor for the action of the mind folding and unfolding into explosions and navigational patterns of flight. Lyrical and thought-provoking, it is a masterful debut. "Kelsey writes what it is to know, of 'what we become/ when the universe is seen in lights of its generation.' We...
|  | English and American Surrealist Poetry (The Penguin poets)
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|  | Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
Publication Date: September 2001An essential volume by one of our most esteemedpoets. ...
|  | Oral Traditions as Philosophy: Okot p'Bitek's Legacy for African Philosophy
Publication Date: May 2002| ISBN-10: 084769772X | ISBN-13: 978-0847697724Oral Traditions as Philosophy is a study of the Ugandan poet and cultural critic Okot p'Bitek. In his poems and critical essays, Okot engages with the oral traditions of his people--the songs, dances, funeral dirges, and so forth--seeing them as manifestations of the people's philosophy of life. Imbo's book makes explicit the philosophical questions raised in Okot's work and places them within the wider picture of contemporary African philosophy. ...
|  | Clare Poems Mid Age V4 Oetcl C (John Clare Poems Mid Per Ser O) (Vol 4)
Publication Date: April 16, 1998| Series: John Clare Poems Mid Per Ser O These volumes represent the third and fourth of five volumes devoted to Clare's 'middle period', between 1822 and 1837. Poems range from satirical and political verse in 'The Summons' and 'The Hue & Cry', to an expression of his philosophy of nature in 'The Eternity of Nature', and astatement of Clare's poetic objectives in 'To the Rural Muse'. ...
|  | The Song of the Earth
Publication Date: September 7, 2000| ISBN-10: 0674001680 | ISBN-13: 978-0674001688 As we enter a new millennium ruled by technology, will poetry still matter? The Song of the Earth answers eloquently in the affirmative. A book about our growing alienation from nature, it is also a brilliant meditation on the capacity of the writer to bring us back to earth, our home.In the first ecological reading of English literature, Jonathan Bate traces the distinctions among "nature," "culture," and "environment" and shows how their meanings have changed since their appearance in the literature of...
|  | A Hundred Doors
Publication Date: May 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 1930630565 | ISBN-13: 978-1930630567Michael Longley has remarkable powers of reinvention. Certain themes remain constant - the natural world, war, violence, love, friendship, art, death - but they also keep changing because the forms and genres of his poetry never stand still. In "A Hundred Doors" a sinuous short line complements his variations on pentameter and hexameter. And Longley's interlacing of individual lyrics, so that a diverse collection seems a single poem, intensifies in the shadow of mortality. A sequence about his grandchild...
|  | The Great Poets John Keats
Publication Date: December 1, 2007| Series: Great Poets Long overshadowed by Jane Eyre, Villette is widely admired as one of Charlotte Brontës finest works. This story of a young teacher at a girls school in the city of Villette is a particular challenge for the young reader for it requires maturity of vision, a fine narrative senseand a command of French! Mandy Weston, a newcomer to Naxos AudioBooks, tells the story magnificently. ...
|  | Mary Robinson: Selected Poems (Broadview Literary Texts)
Publication Date: November 20, 1999| Series: Broadview Literary Texts Mary Robinson's work has begun again to assume a central place in discussions of Romanticism.A writer of the 1790's—a decade which saw the birth of Romanticism, revolution, and enormous popular engagement with political ideas—Robinson was acknowledged in her time as a leading poet.Her writing exhibits great variety: charm, theatricality, and emotional resonance are all characteristics Robinson displays.She was by turns a poet of sensibility, a poet of popular culture, a chronicler of the major events of the t...
|  | Death of King Arthur
Publication Date: January 1, 2012"The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Sir Thomas Malory's prose "Morte D'Arthur". "The Death of King Arthur" deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of "Sir Gawa...
|  | The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence
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|  | Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Publication Date: January 2003This landmark edition of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion provides the first full-size reproduction of the Huntington Library's copy of the work, printed and colored by Blake and his wife, Catherine, in 1793. Generally seen as a continuation of The Book of Thel, this relatively early work of Blake's offers a criticism of the sexual morals of his time, presenting its author's views on the evils of organized religion, on slavery, and on oppressed womanhood. Drawings related to Visions that Blake sketched in his Notebook, now held in the British L...
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