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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The first Selected from ' England's most important living poet"
- " The Times". " Hill so entirely eclipses most of his contemporaries
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A revised & updated edition of the selected poems of one of Britains greatest living poets. It contains all the important earlier work including the wonderful family sonnets & the controversial v. but also now has the Gulf & Bosnian War poems which brought Harrison the Wilfred Owen Prize in 2007. ...

In his work as a physician Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry examining as he said 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech & direct observation of the landscape & people of his native New Jersey his poetry explores the 'raw merging of American pastoral & urban squalor. Emotionally restrained but rich in sensory experience the poems were written according to the guiding concept: 'no ideas but in things' & those 'things' a red wheelbarrow a group of trees a river convey the local & the particular with a vivid intensity. ...

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific & popular poet. Rosettis inner life dominates her poetry exploring loss & unattainable hope. Her divine poems have a freshness & toughness of thought while many of her love poems are erotic & as often express love for women as for men. The varied threads of Rossettis concerns are drawn together in what is perhaps her greatest poem the strange & ambiguous Goblin Market. ...

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Features: * Study methods * Introduction to the text * Summaries with critical notes * Themes & techniques

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Selected Poems" contains Neruda's resonant exploratory intensely individualistic verse rooted in the physical landscape & people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love tender odes to the sea melancholy lyrics of heartache fiery political statements & a frank celebration of sex. This is an enticing distinctive & celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet." ...

As a poet editor & essayist T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection which was made by Eliot himself

Includes:: many of his most celebrated works including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" & " The Waste Land". Other volumes in this series include: " Auden" " Betjemen" " Plath" " Hughes" & " Yeats"."

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