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&I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould & of a cold kind of face pressed against my own& Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English M R James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton & Cambridge His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday in which documents & objects unleash terrible forces often in closed rooms & night-time settings where imagination runs riot Lonely country houses remote inns ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace from creatures seeking retribution & harm These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle & disturb This edition presents all of James&s published ghost stories including the unforgettable & Oh Whistle & I&ll Come to You My Lad& & & Casting the Runes& & an appendix of James&s writings on the ghost story Darryl Jones&s introduction & notes provide a fascinating insight into James&s background & his mastery of the genre he made his own ...

MR James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced These tales are not only classics of their genre but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement convincing background & chilling terror As well as the preface there is a fascinating tail-piece by MR James Stories I Have Tried To Write' which accompanies these thirty tales Among them are Casting the Runes' Oh Whistle & I'll come to you My Lad' The Tractate
- h' The Ash Tree' & Canon Alberic's Scrapbook' There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time For me MR James is one of these' Ruth Rendell
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'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould & of a cold kind of face pressed against my own' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English M R James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton & Cambridge His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday in which documents & objects unleash terrible forces often in closed rooms & night-time settings where imagination runs riot Lonely country houses remote inns ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace from creatures seeking retribution & harm These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle & disturb This edition presents all of James's published ghost stories including the unforgettable ' Oh Whistle & I'll Come to You My Lad' & ' Casting the Runes' & an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story Darryl Jones's introduction & notes provide a fascinating insight into James's background & his mastery of the genre he made his own ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

This trade paperback reprints issues 13-15 of the magazine for Kirby fans &

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' Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened more astonished more humble' Ted Hughes Poet dramatist critic & editor T S Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962

Includes:: his verse from Prufrock & Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943) &

Includes:: such literary landmarks as The Waste Land & Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats



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The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh&s birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland&s greatest poets From a harsh humble background that he himself described so brilliantly Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry
- a poetry appropriate for a fully independent country both politically & culturally Moving beyond Irish verse&s preoccupation with history national politics & identity he turned to the land & scenery of his native Inniskeen portraying the closely-observed minutiae of everyday rural & urban life in an uninhibited groundbreaking style Lucid various direct & engaging Kavanagh&s poems have a unique place in the canon & a unique accessibility This major new edition is the culmination of many years of work by Antoinette Quinn in creating authoritative texts for Kavanagh&s poetry
- from his early works such as & Inniskeen Road July Evening& to his masterpiece the epic & The Great Hunger& allowing us to see the development of Kavanagh&s genius as never before

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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 & Winter Trees The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes & followed by notes & comments on individual poems There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath&s juvenilia This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry& For me the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication eighteen years after her death of Sylvia Plath&s Collected Poems confirming her as one of the most powerful & lavishly gifted poets of our time& A Alvarez in the Observer ...

With an Introduction Notes & Bibliography by Anne Varty Royal Holloway University of London WILDE GLAMOROUS & NOTORIUS more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown & intimate figure The poetry of his formative years

Includes:: the haunting elegy to his young sister & the grieving lyric at the death of his father The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece He explores forbidden sexual desires pays homage to the great theatre stars & poets of his day observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity His final masterpiece The Ballad of Reading Gaol tells the painful story of his own prison experience & calls for universal compassion This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet

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With an Introduction by Donald Mc Farlan Robert Burns the most celebrated of all Scottish poets is remembered with great devotion
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