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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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 ...

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 ...

These 325-in figures allow kids to recreate the battle action from Minecraft Dungeons & create their own adventures Details are true to the in-game appearance in Minecraft Dungeons perfect for slashing & hacking through hostile mobs in imaginative play Each collectible figure

Includes:: three accessories & has five moveable joints playing & displaying!A great way for kids to use their creativity for Minecraft-themed playtime A fantastic gift for kids 6 years & older

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' Nothing so fully displays the grandeur of his mind as his immense & rare collections perhaps the fullest & most curious in the world' National Gazette 1753 Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the greatest collector of his time & one of the greatest of all time His name is familiar today through the London streets & squares named after him on land he once owned (Sloane Square Hans Place) but the man himself & his achievements are almost forgotten Born in the north of Ireland Sloane made his fortune as a physician to London's wealthiest residents & through investment in land & slavery He became one of the eighteenth century's preeminent natural historians ultimately succeeding his rival Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society & assembled an astonishing collection of specimens artefacts & oddities
- the most famous curiosity cabinet of the age Sloane's dream of universal knowledge of a gathering together of every kind of thing in the world was enabled by Britain's rise to global ascendancy In 1687 he travelled to Jamaica then at the heart of Britain's commercial empire to survey its natural history & later organised a network of correspondents who sent him curiosities from across the world Shortly after his death Sloane's vast collection was then acquired
- as he had hoped
- by the nation It became the nucleus of the world's first national public museum the British Museum which opened in 1759 This is the first biography of Sloane in over sixty years & the first based on his surviving collections Early modern science & collecting are shown to be global endeavours intertwined with imperial enterprise & slavery but which nonetheless gave rise to one of the great public institutions of the Enlightenment as the cabinet of curiosities gave way to the encyclopaedic museum Collecting the World describes this pivotal moment in the emergence of modern knowledge & brings this totemic figure back to life


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