Memorial by Alice Oswald
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Category: Poetry
Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its ...Show more
Dart by Alice Oswald
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and i ...Show more
W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats; Seamus Heaney (selection by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. ...Show more
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Poetry
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to b ...Show more
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott by Derek Walcott
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Category: Poetry
This new "Selected Poems" offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his ...Show more
Collected Poems: Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. The text is preceded b ...Show more
T S Eliot - Selected Poems by T S Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry
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: Auden, Bet ...Show more
Here by Wislawa Szymborska
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Category: Poetry
This is an exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When "Here" was published in Poland, reviewers marvelled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest ever. Whet ...Show more
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry by Cassandra Atherton; Paul Hetherington
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Category: Poetry
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years. The Anthology of ...Show more
Medea: A New Translation by Euripides; Charles Martin (Translator); A. E. Stallings (Introduction by); Charles Alexander Martin
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Category: Poetry
The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against his new wife and family--even sla ...Show more
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke; C. F. MacIntyre (Translator)
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Category: Poetry
Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, translated here by a master of translation, David Young. Rilke revived and transformed the traditional sonnet sequence in the Sonnets. Instead of centering on ...Show more
I Love Artists by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge; Calvin Bedient (Series edited by); Forrest Gander (Series edited by); Robert Hass (Series edited by); Brenda Hillman (Series edited by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: New California Poetry Ser.
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style--its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort wit ...Show more