When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished But in the years since his death his work has come to be cherished for its rare sustained vision of the natural world & as 'a mirror of England' (Walter de la Mare) This edition drawn from Thomas's manuscripts & typescripts as well as from his published works offers an accessible introduction to this most resonant
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- of poets' In his lifetime he was known & loved by a very loving few Now since his death he is known & loved by very many & yearly this is more so There is in his poems & unassumingly profound sense of permanence A war came & ditched him but his poems stay with no other wounds than those which caused them' Dylan Thomas 'A very fine poet & a poet all in his own right The accent is absolutely his own' Robert Frost' The one hundred & forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious' Michael Longley

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When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished But in the years since his death his work has come to be cherished for its rare sustained vision of the natural world & as 'a mirror of England' (Walter de la Mare) This new edition offers a selection of some of Thomas's most memorable nature poetry This heart some fraction of me happily Floats through the window even now to a tree Down in the misting dim-lit quiet vale Not like a pewit that returns to wail For something it has lost but like a dove That slants unswerving to its home & love--Beauty ...

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh & accessible approach to English Literature This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level & undergraduate students Written by established literature experts York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis a range of critical perspectives & wider contexts ...

With an Introduction Bibliography & Glossary by Dr Paul Wright Trinity College Carmarthen 'I mean to show things really as they are not as they ought to be' wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe & near East which Byron knew so well touching on the major political cultural & social concerns of the day This selection

Includes:: all of that poem & selections from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage & the satirical poems ' English Bards & Scotch Reviewers' & 'A Vision of Judgement' Paul Wright's detailed introductions place Byron's colourful life & work within their broader social & political contexts & demonstrate that Byron both fostered & critiqued the notorious ' Byronic myth' of heroic adventure political action & sexual scandal

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The perfect gift for Valentine's Day Selected Poems contains Neruda's resonant exploratory intensely individualistic verse rooted in the physical landscape & people of Chile Here we find sensuous songs of love tender odes to the sea melancholy lyrics of heartache fiery political statements & a frank celebration of sex This is an enticing distinctive & celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet ...

Key Features Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes & techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical & literary background Modern & historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary of literary terms ...

As a poet editor & essayist T S Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry This selection which was made by Eliot himself

Includes:: many of his most celebrated works including The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock & The Waste Land Other volumes in this series Auden Betjemen Plath Hughes & Yeats

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TS Eliot
- editor poet critic & publisher
- was the greatest poet of his generation The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature

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This selection which was made by Eliot himself is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks The selection

Includes:: the whole of The Waste Land

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Thom Gunn has been described as 'one of the most singular & compelling poets in English during the past half-century' (TLS) This Selected Poems compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer & accompanied by insightful notes is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn's inimitable career ' The poetry of Thom Gunn was much admired in his lifetime & at the same time often misunderstood & underestimated The scale of his achievement & its uniqueness
- a masterful Elizabethan lyric poet writing in the second half of the twentieth century
- is just now becoming properly appreciated Anonymous in voice even in the service of the most intimate subject matter acute in observation particularly the urban experience with San Francisco the principal site Gunn is not merely the poet of the druggy '60s in California or the plague of the AIDS epidemic but of the deeper-running themes shared by Shakespeare Baudelaire William Carlos Williams & all his greatest exemplars of the artist's moral & imaginative engagement with the world as it actually is in the broadest possible sense not as contemporary fashion might have it be Which strikes me who knew & loved the man & poet as a kind of heroism' August Kleinzahler' Thom Gunn smuggled the lyric tradition out of post-war Britain & gave it cool gracious renaissance in California His poetry evokes the wild life of the body with madrigal-like elegance' Fiona Sampson' Gunn's work illustrates with unusual clarity some of the debates poetry in English has pursued in the twentieth century
- form versus improvisation diction versus talk the American way versus the English tradition even at times authenticity versus art To contain these contradictory impulses & to have generated a body of work which anybody wanting to understand the period & identify some of its best poems will find essential reading
- this is quite an achievement' Sean O' Brien



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