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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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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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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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' ...