York Notes Advanced offer a fresh & accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level & undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis a range of critical perspectives & wider contexts. ...

Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random
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In his draft Preface Wilfred Owen

Includes:: his well-known statement My subject is War & the pity of War.

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This beautiful new edition of Poems on the Underground" is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old & new romantic comic & sublime explore such diverse topics as love London exile families dreams war music & the seasons & feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy & Wendy Cope including Chaucer & Shakespeare Milton Blake & Shelley Whitman & Dickinson Yeats & Auden Seamus Heaney & Derek Walcott & a host of younger poets. It

Includes:: a new foreword & over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies."

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The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack Mc Evoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brothers 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 being the story of a lifetime might also be Jacks ticket to a lonely end. ...

This book offers still more insight into the highly influential writer & poet Edward Thomas through his correspondence with Walter de la Mare: 318 letters from between 1906 & 1917 of which only three have been previously published. They are presented in an accessible enjoyable but scholarly volume. The letters provide new & crucial evidence about Thomass poetic processes & the start of his mature poetry. They also show the mutual support the two poets enjoyed; & give new information on the closeness of the Thomas & de la Mare families. They include some beautiful natural descriptions & track Thomass progress as a reviewer & writer. The physical spacing in the letters provides evidence of often hurried & tired writing but also of a sensitivity to what is not said to pauses to rhythm which prefigure his poems. His idiosyncratic handwriting also underlines key ideas about poetic composition & illuminates his understanding of his journey from prose writer to poet
- topics of great interest to Thomas scholars. Poet to Poet offers a moving epistolary account of the developing personal & poetic relationship of both poets with biographical revelations & increased understanding of their influence on each other & key points relating to their poetic processes. The letters are arranged chronologically & are divided into three sections which illuminate Thomas & De la Mares relationship: 1906-09 The Reviewer & the Poet; 1910-13 Two Writers; 1913-17 Two Poets. Each section has a short introduction highlighting general points of interest & change in their epistolary relationship. The book

Includes:: a transcriptors preface brief biographical information on the two poets suggestions for further reading & an index. The Introduction highlights essential points from the letters in particular revelations about both poets writing processes how Thomass criticism of De la Mares verse informs his own information on their relationship & details of de la Mares character.


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It is 1841. Patty is married to John Clare: peasant poet genius & madman. Travelling home one day Patty finds her husband sitting footsore at the side of the road having absconded from a lunatic asylum over eighty miles away. Hopeful that his condition has enhanced she takes his hands in delight but he fails to recognize her. She is devastated to discover that he has not returned home to find her but to search for his childhood sweetheart Mary Joyce to whom he believes he is married. Patty still loves John deeply but he seems lost to her obsessed with the idealised image of a woman that she cannot possibly match. Plagued by jealousy she seeks strength in memories: their whirlwind courtship the poems John wrote for her their shared affinity for the l&. She must try to heal John's turbulent unhappy soul & restore him to the man she married. But as John descends further into delusion & his behaviour becomes increasingly volatile hope seems to be fading. Will she ever be able to conquer her own anger & hurt & reconcile with this man she now barely knows? ...

Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre & literature Aristotles Poetics" remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature. This " Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction & notes by Malcolm Heath. In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy Aristotle examine the dramatic elements of plot character language & spectacle that combine to produce pity & fear in the audience & asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of " Aeschylus" " Sophocles" & " Euripides" the " Poetics" introduced into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis (imitation) hamartia (error) & katharsis which have informed serious thinking about drama ever since. Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication & resolution recognition & reversals while centring on characters of heroic stature idealised yet true to life. One of the most perceptive & influential works of criticism in Western literary history the " Poetics" has informed serious thinking about drama ever since. Malcolm Heaths lucid translation makes the " Poetics" fully accessible to the modern reader. It is accompanied by an extended introduction which discusses the key concepts in detail &

Includes:: suggestions for further reading. Aristotle (384-22 BC) studied at the Academy of Plato for 20 years & then established his own school & research institute The Lyceum. His writings which were of extraordinary range profoundly affected the whole course of ancient & medieval philosophy & are still eagerly studied & debated by philosophers today. If you enjoyed " Poetics" you might like Aristotles " The Metaphysics" also available in " Penguin Classics"."

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A good poetry idea should help the children feel excited about writing & enable them to think of what to write
- developing their
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The most legendary names in poetry from Wales
- David Jones Idris Davies Vernon Watkins RS Thomas Dylan Thomas & Alun Lewis
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