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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Introduction & Notes by RT Jones Honorary Fellow of the University of York This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Includes:: all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940 In his lifetime Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate & he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 His poetry is striking for its many rhythms & popular forms of speech & Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues & extended ballads He is often thought of as glorifying war militarism & the British Empire but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems first published in 1942 & generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling

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It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris & as a poet that he ended his career The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry & verse translations ever to be published as well as the first critical edition It establishes a significant new canon & the commentary draws on a wide range of published sources manuscripts & Beckett's extensive correspondence The notes place each poem in context detailing the history & circumstances of its composition; they indicate significant variants & help explain obscure turns of phrase & allusions (frequently sourced to Beckett's notebooks); they also identify resonances between poems & across Beckett's work as a whole The commentary is written in a lively & engaging style & is intended equally for the general reader the student of modernism & the Beckett specialist ...

The first of the monumental definitive two-volume edition of Williams's Collected Poems for the twenty-first century reader 608 pages Williams William Carlos ...

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems The Sundial in 1978 In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved & most widely read writers of Wales well-known for her readings for her radio work & her workshops Gillian Clarke is a severe critic of her own poems Collected Poems

Includes:: all that she wishes to preserve of her work to date"

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Only 23-years-old when he directed his extraordinary debut feature Gummo Harmony Korine has since continued to serve notice that he is the riskiest most radical young talent in independent US film This collection of three screenplays displays his defiantly unorthodox approach to film form as well as the unclassifiable imaginative energy that drives all of his work ...

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories introduced by the author contains the celebrated series about Ashenden a secret service agent in World War I Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance & absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness & brutality Accountable only to 'R' Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor the passionate Guilia Lazzari & the sinister 'hairless Mexican' ...

Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter Fiction is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier l&-owner husband & father the life which shaped Anna Karenina & War & Peace 1856 pages Tolstoy Leo ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever show the power & range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century Stories of love & of squalor they include masterpieces such as ' The Swimmer' & ' Goodbye My Brother' & date from the time of his honourable discharge from the Army at the end of the Second World War ...