Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ari ...Show more
John Betjeman: Poems Selected by Hugo Williams by Hugo Williams
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Category: Poetry
Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment as Poet Laureate in 1972 were universally welcomed. Other volumes in this series, include: "Auden", "Eli ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
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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
Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry
Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his introduction. By the time he published his final collection, "Birthday Letters" in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape. Other volumes in this se ...Show more
W.H. Auden by W.H. Auden
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Category: Poetry
W. H. Auden (1907-73) came to prominence in the 1930s among a generation of outspoken poets that included his friends Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis. But he was also an intimate and lyrical poet of great originality, and a master craftsman of some of the most cherished and influential ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Popular Penguins by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more
A Poem of the Land: The Georgics by Virgil
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Category: Poetry
A collection of poems that celebrates the eternal beauty of the natural world. It combines practical wisdom on tending the land with fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. It reflects the cycles of life, death and rebirth, an argument for the nobility of labor and the Roman Empire of Virgil's ti ...Show more
Osip Mandelshtam - Selected Poems by Osip Emilevich Mandelshtam; James Greene (Translator); Donald Rayfield (Introduction by); Nadezhda Mandelstam (Foreword by); Donald Davie (Foreword by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
Osip Mandelshtam is one of the greatest Russian poets of the early 20th century. This extensively revised and augmented edition features James Greene's acclaimed translations of Mandelshtam's poetry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Eng ...Show more
Penguin's Poems by Heart by Laura Barber
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Category: Poetry
Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favor as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favorites, and thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (editor ...Show more
Vanishing Point by Felicity Plunkett
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Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Vanishing Point opens with a surreal vision of creativity and mourning and returns to the flakes of desire, memory and dreams. By turns witty, vulnerable and passionate, Vanishing Point traces the currents of the imagination and the erotic ...Show more
The Romantic Dogs [BT] by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Poetry
Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in for ...Show more
YOU REMIND ME OF MARILYN MONROE by BERKOFF STEVEN
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Category: Poetry
From sensuous, stream-of-consciousness declarations of love to a brooding meditation on the wreckage of a relationship, this collection of Steven Berkoff's verse gives us an intimate glimpse of the acclaimed playwright and actor's thoughts, pains and passions. Never before published together, these poem ...Show more