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Shropshire Lad

by A.E. Housman

9,49€ + 10% CARD

 A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at A. E. Housman''s own expense. The collection of lyrical poems became hugely successful following the Second Boer War and World War I, with themes such as nostalgia for one''s home and the patriotic celebration of the life of the solider striking a chord with English readers. This collection contains Housman''s greatest works, demonstrating the lyrical precision and emotional depth of his writing. It includes ''To an Athlete Dying Young'', a lyrical elegy to a life lost at its prime and ''When I was One-and-Twenty'', a love poem on the ignorance of youth.
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Lamia, Isabella, The Eve Of St Agnes And Other Poems

by Keats

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 In the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had started coughing up blood; the following February, he would die of tuberculosis in Rome, aged just twenty-five. This volume contains his greatest work, written in an astonishing burst of creative genius in 1819. It includes ''Lamia'', his tale of love and betrayal in ancient Corinth; the haunting medieval romance of ''The Eve of St Agnes''; and his six famous odes, now considered among the most famous verse in the language.
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Wessex Poems And Other Verses

by Thomas Hardy

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 Wessex Poems was Hardy''s first collection of poetry, published after he had turned away from novel-writing, disillusioned by the savage reception Jude the Obscure had received. The publication of Wessex Poems marked the start of an extraordinary new phase in Hardy''s writing career, as he was to spent the rest of his life, some thirty years, writing and publishing poetry exclusively. Here are entertaining Dorset ballads, verses set during the Napoleonic Wars, and personal poems reflecting on Hardy''s life and loves. Composed throughout Hardy''s life and informed by his affection for his beloved Wessex, their publication heralded the arrival of a major new poetic voice.
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Leaves Of Grass

by Walt Whitman

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 A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift for poetry lovers. In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's innovative use of free verse and the quotidian achieved his aim of reaching out to the everyday American. This edition, based on the earliest published version of 1855, features Whitman's most famous poem 'Song of Myself', an American epic inspired by his personal experiences.
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Poems

by Wilfred Owen

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 A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet''s most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Poems is Wilfred Owen''s only volume of poetry, first published posthumously in 1920 and edited by his friend and mentor, Siegfried Sassoon. Owen is regarded as one of the best poets of World War I and composed nearly all of his poems in just over a year, between August 1917 and September 1918. Owen was virtually unknown at the time of his death, yet his poetic account of a soldier''s experience of war has shaped our impression of the horrors of the Western Front. This collection includes the well-known ''Anthem for Doomed Youth'' and ''Dulce et Decorum Est''.
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Lyrical Ballads

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge e William Wordsworth

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 A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet''s most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the collection broke away from traditional poetic form. Of the twenty-three poems, Wordsworth penned works such as ''Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey'' and ''The Idiot Boy'' that use colloquial speech and take the everyday as their theme. The collection also includes Coleridge''s greatest poem ''The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'', a supernatural tale of a sailor''s voyage.
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Tower

by W. B. Yeats

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 A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet''s most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. The Tower was W. B. Yeats''s first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower includes some of his greatest and most innovative poems including ''Sailing to Byzantium'', a lyrical meditation on man''s disillusionment with the physical world; ''Leda and the Swan'', a violent and graphic take on the Greek myth of Leda and Zeus and ''Among School Children'', a poetic contemplation of life, love and the creative process.
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Temple

by George Herbert

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 A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet''s most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. On his deathbed George Herbert entrusted the manuscript of The Temple to his friend Nicholas Ferrar, asking him to publish it if he thought it was worthy. Herbert died in 1633 and the collection was published the same year to much acclaim. The Temple is an astounding collection of English verse poems with a central religious theme. The volume is a meditation on man''s relationship to God and is characterised by Herbert''s clarity and directness of style. This collection includes ''The Collar'', a lyrical poem on submission to Divine Will and ''The Pearl'', a manifestation of man''s love for God.
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Goblin Market And Other Poems

by Christina Rossetti

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 A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet''s most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Goblin Market and Other Poems was Christina Rossetti''s first full volume of poetry, published in 1862. The collection received widespread critical praise and established Rossetti as the foremost female poet of her time. Tennyson, Hopkins and Swinburne all admired her work. The title poem ''Goblin Market'' is arguably her most famous, a fairy tale entwining themes of sisterhood, temptation and sexuality. This collection also includes ''Up-hill'', an allegorical dialogue on life and death and ''Maude Clare'', a ballad of a woman scorned.
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Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience

by William Blake

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 A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet''s most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Songs of Innocence and Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake, a seminal figure of the Romantic Movement. The volume was published in two parts with Songs of Innocence being published in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. In the volume Blake juxtaposes the innocent world of childhood with the corrupt and repressed one of adults. Many of the poems are in pairs enabling the reader to see the same situation first from the perspective of innocence and then from that of experience. This collection includes some of his greatest poems including ''The Lamb'', ''The Chimney Sweeper'' and ''The Tyger''.
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Leaves Of Grass

by Walt Whitman

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 A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift for poetry lovers. In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's innovative use of free verse and the quotidian achieved his aim of reaching out to the everyday American. This edition, based on the earliest published version of 1855, features Whitman's most famous poem 'Song of Myself', an American epic inspired by his personal experiences.
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A Shropshire Lad

by A.E. Housman

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Lamia, Isabella, The Eve Of St Agnes And Other Poems

by Keats

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Poems

by Wilfred Owen

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Lyrical Ballads

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge e William Wordsworth

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The Tower

by W. B. Yeats

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The Temple

by George Herbert

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Goblin Market And Other Poems

by Christina Rossetti

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Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience

by William Blake

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The Frontiers Of Knowledge

by A. C. Grayling

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The Frontiers Of Knowledge - What We Know About Science, History And The Mind - And How We Know It

by A. C. Grayling

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The Silk Merchant'S Daughter

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I Am A Footballer - Read It Yourself With Ladybird Level 2

by Ladybird

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Peppa Pig: Going On Holiday - Read It Yourself With Ladybird Level 2

by Ladybird e Peppa Pig

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