Though sometimes classified with Owen Rosenberg & Sassoon as a war poet he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war & whose main subjects were the English countryside & its people & the solitude of the observing self. The present edition offers the complete poems together with detailed editorial apparatus in what has become acknowledged as the standard edition by R. George Thomas. It also

Includes:: Thomass remarkable prose War Diary of 1917.

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Allan Ahlbergs five poetry books written over a period of twenty-five years
- Please Mrs Butler" " Heard it in the Playground"
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The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarkes 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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This title offers a unique 15 CD box set of Seamus Heaney reading his 11 poetry collections in their entirety produced by Radio Telefis Eireann the Irish national broadcasting corporation. These include Death of a Naturalist" " Door Into The Dark" " Wintering Out" " North" " Fieldwork" " Station Island" " The Haw Lantern" " Seeing Things" " The Spirit Level" " Electric Light" & " District & Circle"." ...

Sassoons fame as a novelist & autobiographer & the success of his posthumously published Diaries " have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous " War Poems" of 1919 which firmly established his reputation he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his own choice of the poems he wished to preserve. It was first published in 1947 & subsequently enlarged to include the late poems in " Sequences."" ...

Wilde glamorous & notorious more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown & intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years

Includes:: the haunting elegy to his young sister & the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires pays homage to the great theatre stars & poets of his day observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece The Ballad of Reading Gaol tells the painful story of his own prison experience & calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wildes verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.

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This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Includes:: all the poems contained in the Definitive

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The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also

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Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson & Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later when Eliot & Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina & a consistent individuality of style & vision made him a survivor immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness humanity & humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike. ...

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth & he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan & neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men & women of ordinary thoughts sights & sounds & his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art. Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy & his wife Mary by whom he had four children. His remarkable autobiographical poem ' The Prelude' was completed in 1805 but was not published until after his death & it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry. ...