Selected Piano Exam Pieces with CD contains the printed music for nine pieces from ABRSMs 2011 & 2012 Grade 1 Piano syllabus as well as recordings of all the pieces for the grade. Features printed music for three pieces from each of Lists A B & C providing an appealing & varied repertoire from which to create a balanced programme for the exam or a concert. Also

Includes:: helpful information about the pieces & the exam.

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Selected Piano Exam Pieces contains the printed music for nine pieces from ABRSMs 2011 & 2012 Grade 3 Piano syllabus.



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Selected Piano Exam Pieces contains the printed music for nine pieces from ABRSMs 2011 & 2012 Grade 4 Piano syllabus.



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Selected Piano Exam Pieces contains the printed music for nine pieces from ABRSMs 2011 & 2012 Grade 5 Piano syllabus.



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This selection of the works of W B Yeats

Includes:: the final book from the unfairly neglected narrative poem

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This work is an updated selection of Roger Mc Goughs finest best-loved verse. The complete span of Mc Goughs writing from the 1960s to the new millennium is represented. Mc Goughs trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown the jokes that are something more the underlying heartache the acute sense of the way time slips away"
- Ian Mc Millan " Poetry Review". " Mc Gough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings"
- " Time Out"."

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One of the major poets of Romanticism Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world & the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life including extracts from his masterpiece The Prelude & the best-loved of his shorter poems such as Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Tintern Abbey I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Lucy Gray & Michael. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworths astonishing range & power but the sustained & coherent vision that informed his work. ...

This generous selection of Tony Harrisons poems

Includes:: sixty-three poems from his famous sonnet sequence

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This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns reputation as a lyricist & as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition it

Includes:: lyrics to his most well known songs such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne the romantic A Red Red Rose & the patriotic Scots What Hae. As a poet Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity & imaginative sympathy & demonstrated enormous range
- from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willies Prayer which mocks hypocrisy to narratives including the celebrated Tam O Shanter about the ghostly visions of a drunk.


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Showcasing the creative power of one of the most outstanding English Metaphysical Poets the Penguin Classics" edition of John Donne's " Selected Poems"

Includes:: an introduction & notes by Ilona Bell. Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets John Donne was also among the most intriguing figures of the Renaissance. A sensualist who composed erotic & playful love poetry in his youth he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. " The Selected Poems" reflects this wide diversity &

Includes:: his youthful Songs & Sonnets epigrams elegies letters satires & the profoundly moving " Divine Poems" composed towards the end of his life. From joyful poems such as " The Flea" which transforms the image of a louse into something marvellous to the intimate & intense " Holy Sonnets" Donne breathed new vigour into poetry by drawing lucid & often startling metaphors from the world in which he lived. His poems remain among the most passionate profound & spiritual in the English language. Ilona Bell's introduction considers Donne's life faith & influence. This edition also

Includes:: detailed notes & a further reading list. John Donne (1572-1631) was born into a family of devout Catholics. He studied at Oxford University travelled on the continent & then studied law at Lincoln's Inn. In the early 1600s Donne became a Member of Parliament & Justice of the Peace obtaining temporary positions & patronage from a number of aristocrats who are the subjects of his poems. He was ordained as an Anglican minister in 1615 & in 1621 was made Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral a position he held until his death. If you enjoyed Donne's " Selected Poems" you might enjoy John Milton's " Paradise Lost" also available in " Penguin Classics"."





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