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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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William Blake was an engraver painter & visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth Ruskin W.B. Yeats & more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg & the flower power generation. He is one of Englands most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies & subvert the mind-forged manacles of restriction. This volume contains many of his writings including: Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience The Marriage of Heaven & Hell & a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including Milton & Jerusalem. ...

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy Pope devoted his energies towards literature & achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of 21. A succession of brilliant poems followed including An Essay on Criticism (1711) Windsor Forest (1713) & his masterpiece The Rape of the Lock (1712). A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All these works which exhibit Popes astonishing human insight his wide sympathies & powers of social observation (displayed to greatest effect in his talent for satire) feature in this selection. In his introduction
- an eloquent defence of Popes poetic practice
- Pat Rogers argues that we must abandon our Romantic conception of poetry as a record of fleeting & subjective states if we are to understand Pope fully. Instead we must see him as an accomplished practitioner of the poetry of ideas & of satirical reflection on human society. This collection is chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition of Popes major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.

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The First World War was one of seemingly endless & unremitting waste & sacrifice. Who will remember passing through this Gate The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? was Siegfried Sassoons anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon & his fellow poets
- Owen Rosenberg Sorley & many others
- that we do remember. This new anthology will serve as an introduction to the poetry of that great conflict & the inclusion of a number of rarely anthologised poets many from the ranks as well as anonymous poems & songs serves to bring a quality of freshness to the selection.

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Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action & drama are implied rather than described openly & which leave much to the readers imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest & shortest comic sketches as well as examples of his great mature works. Throughout the doctor-turned-writer displays compassion for human suffering & misfortune but is always able to see the comical even farcical aspects of the human condition. ...

'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy D. H. Lawrence & Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories & her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one of the finest short-story writers in the English language. This selection covers the full range of Mansfield's fiction from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of ' The Daughters of the Late Colonel' & the macabre & ominous 'A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay what Mansfield calls 'a debt of love' to New Zealand are as sharply etched as the European stories & she recreates her childhood world with mordant insight. Disruption is a constant theme whether the tone is comic tragic nostalgic or domestic echoing Mansfield's disrupted life & the fractured expressions of Modernism. This new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33 stories & prints them in the order in which they first appeared in the definitive texts established by Anthony Alpers. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Collecting the most incisive & influential writings of one of Romes finest orators Ciceros Selected Works" is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in " Penguin Classics". Lawyer philosopher statesman & defender of Romes Republic Cicero was a master of eloquence & his pure literary & oratorical style & strict sense of morality have been a powerful influence on European literature & thought for over two thousand years in matters of politics philosophy & faith. This selection demonstrates the diversity of his writings &

Includes:: letters to friends & statesmen on Roman life & politics; the vitriolic Second Philippic Against Antony; & his two most famous philosophical treatises " On Duties" & " On Old Age"
- a celebration of his own declining years. Written at a time of brutal political & social change Ciceros lucid ethical writings formed the foundation of the Western liberal tradition in political & moral thought that continues to this day. This translation by Michael Grant conveys the elegance of Ciceros writings. His introduction describes their social & political background while maps genealogical charts timelines & a glossary place the works in context. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator & statesman was born at Arpinium to a wealthy local family. Having been educated in Rome by 70 BC he had established himself as a leading barrister & was beginning a successful political career. Cicero received honours usually reserved only for the Roman aristocracy & was one of the greatest Roman orators. If you enjoyed " Selected Works" you might like Suetonius " The Twelve Caesars" also available in " Penguin Classics"."


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