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Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Poems And Essays

by Edgar Allan Poe

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 His reputation has never settled, seeing as many reversals after his death as during his life. Though read and enjoyed ny many, fewer admire him openly. This volume includes all of his poetry and his most important essays.
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Halcyon - Gabriel D''Annunzio

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 First published in 2003. GABRIELE D''ANNUNZIO was born in 1863 in Pescara, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, the son of a wealthy landowner. His first volume of poetry was published in 1879, when he was sixteen. After graduating from the University of Rome, d''Annunzio married and began to write short stories to support his wife and family. In 1919 d''Annunzio led a small force to seize the town of Fiume, ruling it as a dictator until 1921. D''Annunzio spent the later part of his life at his home on Lake Garda. In 1937 he was made President of the Italian Royal Academy. He died in 1938 and was given a state funeral by Mussolini. When Halcyon was first published, at the end of 1903, its author was already forty and famous: J/ placere, which ranks with A rebours and The Picture of Dorian Gray as a novel of the Decadence, had appeared in 1889, and d''Annunzio had published other novels, short stories, plays, and many volumes of poetry since his first great success at the age of sixteen.
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Charlotte Smith - Selected Poems

by Charlotte Smith

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 This book presents an ideal introduction to the full range of the works of Charlotte Smith, whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience, from her influential sonnets and poems for children to extracts from her French Revolution poem.
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Halcyon - Gabriel D''Annunzio

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 First published in 2003. GABRIELE D''ANNUNZIO was born in 1863 in Pescara, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, the son of a wealthy landowner. His first volume of poetry was published in 1879, when he was sixteen. After graduating from the University of Rome, d''Annunzio married and began to write short stories to support his wife and family. In 1919 d''Annunzio led a small force to seize the town of Fiume, ruling it as a dictator until 1921. D''Annunzio spent the later part of his life at his home on Lake Garda. In 1937 he was made President of the Italian Royal Academy. He died in 1938 and was given a state funeral by Mussolini. When Halcyon was first published, at the end of 1903, its author was already forty and famous: J/ placere, which ranks with A rebours and The Picture of Dorian Gray as a novel of the Decadence, had appeared in 1889, and d''Annunzio had published other novels, short stories, plays, and many volumes of poetry since his first great success at the age of sixteen.
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Wyndham Lewis - Collected Poems And Plays

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 At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett. This volume includes major works: One-Way Song , and Enemy of the Stars in its two very different versions, as well as other writings that can now be seen as central to the formation of Lewis''s work. The plays and poems crackle with ferocious energy, concentrated and brilliant, as Lewis creates a literary equivalent to the visual revolutions of Cubism and Vorticism. He explores how an artist should think and write in an oppressive world, the relationship between imagination and action. This edition, with Alan Munton''s annotations, is a definitive text based on Lewis''s own final corrections. An introduction by C.H. Sisson places these radical works in the context of Lewis''s other writings.
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Death'S Jest Book

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 This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes''s defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet''s lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death.
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Wyndham Lewis - Collected Poems And Plays

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett. This volume includes major works: One-Way Song , and Enemy of the Stars in its two very different versions, as well as other writings that can now be seen as central to the formation of Lewis''s work. The plays and poems crackle with ferocious energy, concentrated and brilliant, as Lewis creates a literary equivalent to the visual revolutions of Cubism and Vorticism. He explores how an artist should think and write in an oppressive world, the relationship between imagination and action. This edition, with Alan Munton''s annotations, is a definitive text based on Lewis''s own final corrections. An introduction by C.H. Sisson places these radical works in the context of Lewis''s other writings.
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Selected Poems Of Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey

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 This book is a collection of selected poems of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, who is revealed as subtle and graceful poet and a translator whose vigorous and faithful versions of the Aeneid continue to enrich the literary tradition.
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John Skelton - Selected Poems

by John Skelton

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 This book presents a collection of works of John Skelton, the first great modern English poet, who wrote in a vigorous vernacular, taking literary English out of the medieval world and enriching it with new forms and tones. It provides notes and glossary illuminating Skelton''s works for the reader.
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Selected Poems Of Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey

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 This book is a collection of selected poems of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, who is revealed as subtle and graceful poet and a translator whose vigorous and faithful versions of the Aeneid continue to enrich the literary tradition.
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Selected Poems Of Thomas Chatterton

by Thomas Chatterton

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 This book presents Thomas Chatterton''s selected poems. It includes introductions to Chatterton''s life, technique, and reputation, and shows the historical significance and unexpected range of his poetry, which spans the genres of satire, elegy, lyric, narrative verse, and poetic drama.
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Arthur Symons - Selected Writings

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 Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) is a haunting poet of the modern city, catching its dangerous, complex beauty in works that first introduced the imagery of the urban underworld into English poetry. He was a champion of the French Symbolists. Yeats, Pound and Eliot acknowledged their debt to him and were influenced by his sense of the city as the essential landscape of modernity. As a poet and critic, in his own right, though, Symons has come into his own in recent years. This selection is taken from the full range of Symons'' poetry and prose, revealing an experimental writer exploring art, literature and music. Roger Holdsworth''s introduction sets Symons in his context as both an 1890s Decadent and a precursor of Modernism.
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Arthur Hugh Clough - Selected Poems

by Arthur Hugh Clough

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 This book presents a selection of the full range of Arthur Hugh Clough''s poetry, which explores the tensions of a time of radical changes in the religious, political, and literary landscape. It also includes a detailed introduction and annotations by Shirley Chew.
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Selected Poems Of Aphra Behn

by Aphra Behn

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 This book presents a collection of the poetry of the 17th-century writer Aphra Behn. It examines the relationships between the sexes, seen from the woman''s point of view. The book also includes some of Behn''s translations, occasional pieces, satires, and songs.
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Selected Letters

by John Donne

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 Whether sharing his anxieties about his writing, consoling bereaved friends, complaining about the meanness of a patron or defending himself against malicious gossip, John Donne reveals himself in his letters with a directness that can be found nowhere else in his writings. These letters corroborate the impression created by his better-known writings that he was one of the most remarkable figures produced by the English Renaissance and that he possessed an extraordinarily subtle and creative intelligence.
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Selected Letters

by John Donne

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 Whether sharing his anxieties about his writing, consoling bereaved friends, complaining about the meanness of a patron or defending himself against malicious gossip, John Donne reveals himself in his letters with a directness that can be found nowhere else in his writings. These letters corroborate the impression created by his better-known writings that he was one of the most remarkable figures produced by the English Renaissance and that he possessed an extraordinarily subtle and creative intelligence.
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Selected Poems Of Sir Thomas Wyatt

by Sir Thomas Wyatt

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 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), 'the first great english lyric poet' has many accomplishments--among them the introduction into English of the sonnet, terza rima and other Italian verse forms and his reputed romantic entangelment with Anne Boleyn. This book contains a representative selection, from the best-loved writings to those lesser known.
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Leigh Hunt - Selected Writings

by Leigh Hunt

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 Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a prolific, versatile and engaging writer. He outlived many of the poets and essayists of his generation whose reputations overshadowed his, but Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats all owed a debt to his advocacy, as did Tennyson and Browning. A poet of charm and technical skill, and an able translator and playwright, Leigh Hunt excelled as an essayist, literary critic and letter writer. His concern was always, in the words of his son, to ''open more widely the door of the library'', to share his literary enthusiasms and extend his readers'' tastes. This anthology draws on the full range of Hunt''s poetry and prose, revealing a writer committed to the humane and civilizing powers of literature and friendship.
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Selected Poems

by Christina Rossetti

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 First published in 2002. This is a collection of poems, songs and couplets by Christina Rossetti, including Maude: A Story For Girls, Christina''s Maude is undoubtedly a self-portrait, and a highly critical one-but critical with standards of scrupulosity. The place of Christina''s birth was 38 Charlotte Street, Portand Place, London; the date, 1830.
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Selected Poems

by Christina Rossetti

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 First published in 2002. This is a collection of poems, songs and couplets by Christina Rossetti, including Maude: A Story For Girls, Christina''s Maude is undoubtedly a self-portrait, and a highly critical one-but critical with standards of scrupulosity. The place of Christina''s birth was 38 Charlotte Street, Portand Place, London; the date, 1830.
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Selected Poems

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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 For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound regarded him as an exemplary figure of solitary dedication to art and beauty. He called the sonnet ''a moment''s monument'', and his best short lyrics are instants of oppressed emotion cut free of time. In this, as in the suggestiveness of his imagery, he anticipates the French Symbolists. He can also be regarded as the founder of modern verse translation, not only for the freshness of his versions but also for his choice of poets---Villon, Cavalcanti and the young Dante. In this selection, Clive Wilmer has made a personal choice, emphasizing the ''pure poetry'' of the lyrics at the expense of the more conventionally Victorian monologues and narratives. He has also included a generous selection from the translations, and provided a biographical and critical introduction.
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Selected Poems

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound regarded him as an exemplary figure of solitary dedication to art and beauty. He called the sonnet ''a moment''s monument'', and his best short lyrics are instants of oppressed emotion cut free of time. In this, as in the suggestiveness of his imagery, he anticipates the French Symbolists. He can also be regarded as the founder of modern verse translation, not only for the freshness of his versions but also for his choice of poets---Villon, Cavalcanti and the young Dante. In this selection, Clive Wilmer has made a personal choice, emphasizing the ''pure poetry'' of the lyrics at the expense of the more conventionally Victorian monologues and narratives. He has also included a generous selection from the translations, and provided a biographical and critical introduction.
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Selected Poems Of Sir Thomas Wyatt

by Sir Thomas Wyatt

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), 'the first great english lyric poet' has many accomplishments--among them the introduction into English of the sonnet, terza rima and other Italian verse forms and his reputed romantic entangelment with Anne Boleyn. This book contains a representative selection, from the best-loved writings to those lesser known.
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Selected Poems Of Sir Thomas Wyatt

by Sir Thomas Wyatt

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), 'the first great english lyric poet' has many accomplishments--among them the introduction into English of the sonnet, terza rima and other Italian verse forms and his reputed romantic entangelment with Anne Boleyn. This book contains a representative selection, from the best-loved writings to those lesser known.
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