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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Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets whose intense & original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose
- whether everyday or sublime
- into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the personalities of a diverse range of characters & introduced a new immediacy colloquial energy & psychological complexity to the poetry of his day. This selection brings together verse ranging from early dramatic monologues such as the chilling My Last Duchess" & the ribald " Fra Lippo Lippi" which show his gift for inhabiting the mind of another to the popular children's poem " The Pied Piper of Hamelin" & many lesser known works. All display his innovative techniques of diction rhythm & symbol which transformed Victorian poetry & influenced major poets of the twentieth century such as Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot & Robert Frost."

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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 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. ...