JRR Tolkien's fantasy story about the adventures of a bewitched toy dog written before The Hobbit While on holiday in 1925 four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire To console him his father JRRTolkien improvised a story about Rover a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy & is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal This charming tale peopled by a s&-sorcerer & a terrible dragon by the king of the sea & the Man-in-the-Moon was Tolkien's first full-length children's book written before The Hobbit Now nearly 90 years later the adventures of Rover
- or for reasons that become clear in the story Roverandom'
- are published in this delightful pocket hardback edition Rich in wit & wordplay Roverandom is edited & introduced by Tolkien experts Christina Scull & Wayne G Hammond &

Includes:: Tolkien's own delightful illustrations



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With an Introduction by Tim Cook Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling & meaning unmatched in English sonnet form They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love & the second chronicles his love for the notorious ' Dark Lady' In addition to the sonnets this volume

Includes:: Shakespeare's two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes The Rape of Lucrece which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth & Venus & Adonis which mixes ribaldry & tragedy in unique Shakespearean manner The Phoenix & the Turtle is a beautiful metaphysical & allegorical short elegy & takes its place with Shakespeare's better-known poetry

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The first critical edition of the complete poems of Basil Bunting published on the fiftieth anniversary of his masterpiece Briggflatts Basil Bunting is one of the most important British poets of the twentieth century admired early on by Ezra Pound & Louis Zukofsky & acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in the Modernist movement Faber published a selection of his early work in Pound's Active Anthology (1933) but Bunting's reputation was not confirmed until decades later with the publication of his masterpiece Briggflatts by Fulcrum Press in 1966 Bunting's work was published throughout most of his life in editions from Oxford University Press Bloodaxe Books New Directions & various small presses This is the first critical edition of the complete poems & offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources Don Share annotates Bunting's often complex & allusive verse with much illuminating"ation from his prose writings interviews & correspondence He also examines Bunting's sources (including Persian literature & classical mythology) & explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary & use of dialect This important work of literary scholarship offers for the first time an edition commensurate with the achievement of this neglected Modernist master ...

Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader Presented alongside the original Latin text this new translation reflects Catullus' mastery of poetic forms as diverse as the lyric the inventive epigram & the romantic legend & shows his passionate & sometimes dedicated to his lover Lesbia This edition also

Includes:: a introduction to the poet's life & work & full explanatory notes ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more

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For students of Middle English Andrew & Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain & the Green Knight) for 30 years Now with the changing needs of today's student in mind the editors have undertaken the most comprehensive revision of the book since its inception The revised edition

Includes:: a new introduction providing historical literary & cultural contexts for the poems It also incorporates a revised & updated bibliography minor changes to the text & glossary & significant revision & updating of the explanatory notes In addition the authors have provided for the first time a complete prose translation of the four poems for students to use as a working tool Access to a digital copy of this translation conceived as a complement & companion to the new edition is included with this book

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From the multi-award winning Bob Graham comes a romantic hopeful & exquisitely-illustrated story perfect for giving as a gift to the one that you love It's 1830 in County Kerry Ireland & a gold ring is thrown into the wind by a young woman on a black horse & as the seasons pass & then the years the little treasure finds itself on the most astonishing journey finally settling at the bottom of a deep sea Will the ring inscribed with "love never dies" ever fulfil its destiny & find the finger of a woman truly loved? ...

The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack Mc Evoy on edge Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides & puts him on the trail of a cop killer whose victims are selected all too carefully Not only that but they all leave suicide notes drawn from the poems of writer Edgar Allan Poe in their wake More frightening still the killer appears to know that Jack is getting nearer & nearer An investigation that looks like the story of a lifetime might also be Jack's ticket to a lonely end ...

From the Newbery Medal-winning author a poignant story about two children a poet & a dog & how they help one another survive loss & recapture love Teddy is a gifted dog Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan he grew up listening to sonnets read aloud & the comforting clicking of a keyboard Although Teddy understands words Sylvan always told him there are only two kinds of people in the world who can hear Teddy speak poets & children Then one day Teddy learns that Sylvan was right When Teddy finds Nickel & Flora trapped in a snowstorm he tells them that he will bring them home
- & they understand him The children are afraid of the howling wind but not of Teddy's words They follow him to a cabin in the woods where the dog used to live with Sylvan only now his owner is gone As they hole up in the cabin for shelter Teddy is flooded with memories of Sylvan What will Teddy do when his new friends go home? Can they help one another find what they have lost?
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) & well worth the wait These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical mythological & literary importance containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods & heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians their unique vision of the beginning & end of the world etc Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative & fluent & often very gripping With their individual headnotes & complementary general introduction they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand & appreciate the beliefs motivations & values of the Vikings --Dick Ringler Professor Emeritus of English & Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison ...

' She sees coming up a second time Earth from the ocean eternally green; the waterfalls plunge an eagle soars above them over the mountain hunting fish' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok the earth rises serenely again from the ocean & life is renewed The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world & looks forward to its destruction & rebirth In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological & heroic poetry the exploits of gods & humans are related The one-eyed Odin red-bearded Thor Loki the trickster the lovely goddesses & the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer Brynhild the shield-maiden & the implacable Gudrun New in this revised translation are the quest-poem The Lay of Svipdag & The Waking of Angantyr in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword Comic tragic instructive grandiose witty & profound the poems of the Edda have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien & a new generation of video-game & film makers ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...