Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend to whom she could freely & spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys & trials of domestic life Between 1st January 1915 & her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace courage honesty & wit The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language ...

EDITED BY JOANNE TRAUTMANN BANKS WITH A PREFACE BY HERMIONE LEEThe finest & most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume It is a marvellous collection
- spontaneous witty often flirtatious & powerfully moving Whether bemoaning some domestic travail commenting publicly on the state of the nation or discussing cultural artistic or personal concerns Virginia Woolf is one of the great correspondents This volume displays not only Woolf's courage & brilliance her generosity & love of gossip but also her genius for close & enduring friendship
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In his work as a physician Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry examining as he said 'the particular to discover the universal' Marked by a vernacular American speech & direct observation of the landscape & people of his native New Jersey his poetry explores the 'raw merging of American pastoral & urban squalor Emotionally restrained but rich in sensory experience the poems were written according to the guiding concept 'no ideas but in things' & those 'things' a red wheelbarrow a group of trees a river convey the local & the particular with a vivid intensity ...

Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979) adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition & broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms the rhetorical & tonal range & the variousness of content in Auden's poetry in the confines of one volume In particular there are newly included examples of Auden's mastery of light verse the self-descriptive sequence of haiku called ' Profiles' the barbed wartime quatrains of ' Leap Before You Look' or ' Funeral Blues' itself Also included are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure & a revised introduction drawing on recent additions to Auden scholarship ...

Through four highly acclaimed collections Colette Bryce has steadily consolidated her position as one of the most important of the younger generation of Irish poets Possessed of a preternaturally acute ear & eye Bryce is the recorder & observer of tense times perhaps no contemporary poet has better mapped the fault-lines of nation & family of love & tribal loyalty of landscape & border In all this Bryce again & again declares the primacy of song as a redemptive practice & a glorious end in itself no voice is more accurately pitched or effortlessly musical Selected Poems draws together the best of her poetry from The Heel of Bernadette to The Whole & Rain-domed Universe winner of the Ewart-Biggs Award & is a marvellous introduction to the range & sweep of Bryce's work ...

WB Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction & notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics Few have lived their ideas so passionately & nobly as WB Yeats in his love affairs politics & poetry From his youth in the 1880s a fertile dreamer rediscovering & remaking the Irish tradition he grew into a great & innovative poet of the twentieth century This selection of Yeats's work

Includes:: the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin & a number of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist This edition breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy It also

Includes:: explanatory & textual notes for each poem W B Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great & innovative poets of the twentieth century Much of his most vigorous verse on love sex Irish & international politics the complexities of the occult & the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 & his death in 1939 If you enjoyed Selected Poems you might like The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry also available in Penguin Classics'A compelling poetic presence together with Joyce Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible' Timothy Webb



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This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader & for the student of contemporary literature It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T S Eliot which was published in 1928 A representative group of early poems is included; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Cathay & Homage to Sextus Propertius are printed complete; & there is a selection from the Cantos up to & including Drafts & Fragments (1969) ...

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy & has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann) Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals' Muldoon seems determined to escape definition yet this volume chosen by the poet himself serves as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual high jinx & emotional honesty Among his many honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry & the Shakespeare Prize 'for contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European inheritance' ...

Dealing with the densities of the poets expression & the forces in his syntax & rhythms this poetry aims to achieve a strength memorability & precision beyond the abilities of any other poet writing in English 288 pages Hill Geoffrey ...

' In the end you're tired of this antiquated world' Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism & the most colourful His exuberant adventurous poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived & his experimentalism heralded a new artistic order In the Paris of the belle epoque Apollinaire's prolific writing
- poems short stories erotic novels art criticism
- as well as his magnetic personality brought him fame & even some notoriety His two great collections of poetry Alcools & Calligrammes made his reputation & they include love poems as well as the war poetry for which he is best known Apollinaire coined the word 'surrealism' & he led the literary & artistic avant-garde right up to his death two days before the Armistice weakened by injuries received earlier in the War This new selection by Martin Sorrell covers the full range of Apollinaire's career &

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