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Collected Poems
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Allan Ahlbergs five poetry books written over a period of twenty-five years
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Collected Poems
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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

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Collected Poems
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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"." ...
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Collected Poems
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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."" ...
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Collected Poems For
Children
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This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young progressing to the poems in Under the North Star" & " What is the Truth?" & ending with " Season Songs" which Hughes remarked was written within hearing of children. Raymond Briggs brings to the collection two hundred original drawings that capture the wit gentleness & humanity of these poems & make this a book any reader
- child & adult
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Collected Poems Of
Rudyard Kipling
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This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

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Collected Poems Of Ted
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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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Collected Poems Of
Thomas Hardy
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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. ...
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Collected Poems Of
William Wordsworth
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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. ...
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Collected Short
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The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories" introduced by the author contains the celebrated series about Ashenden a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance & absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness & brutality. Accountable only to 'R' Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor the passionate Guilia Lazzari & the sinister 'hairless Mexican'." ...
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Collected Poems Of Oscar Wilde

Wilde glamorous and notorious more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and 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 and 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 and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wildes verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.
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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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