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 definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems 18 POEMS TWENTY-FIVE POEMS THE MAP OF LOVE DEATHS & ENTRANCES & IN COUNTRY SLEEPDylan Thomas wrote passionately about life in all its moods & moments from the first thrilling moments of childbirth to the darker moments of death & loss COLLECTED POEMS is introduced by the poet himself with a passionate seashore ' Prologue' in which the self-styled Noah of poetry builds his ark against ruin This edition

Includes:: his last unfinished poem ' Elegy' & the opening of ' In Country Heaven'
- an ambitious project conceived after the dropping of the atom bomb


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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 ...

Among the most influential political & social forces of the twentieth century modern communism rests firmly on philosophical political & economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov later known as Lenin For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century capitalism the Russian Revolution & the role of Communism in the tumultuous political & social movements that have shaped the modern world the works of Lenin offer unparalleled insight & understanding Taken together they represent a balanced cross-section of his revolutionary theories of history politics & economics; his tactics for securing & retaining power; & his vision of a new social & economic order This first volume contains four works (New Economic Developments in Peasant Life On the So-Called Market Question What the ' Friends of the People' Are & How They Fight the Social-Democrats The Economic Content of Narodism & the Criticism of It in Mr Struve's Book) written by Lenin in 1893-1894 at the outset of his revolutionary activity during the first years of the struggle to establish a workers' revolutionary party in Russia ...