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Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the precision and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The Great Poets
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This unique anthology presents depictions of female figures in a wide range of English verse - narrative, dramatic and lyric, original and translated - from the Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century. The emphasis is on the variety of women's reactions to the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The archetypal Restoration rake, Rochester wrote poems of love, debauchery, erotic obsession and impotence full of honesty and raw power.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England. His work - still popular today - includes such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The Great Poets
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One of America's best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Anglo-saxon poetry was circulated orally in a preliterate society, and gathered at last into books over some six centuries before the Norman Conquest ended English independence. Against the odds some of these books survive today. This anthology of prose translations...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Poems of religious doubt and closely-observed uncertainties, expressing the wants and feelings of man and women everywhere.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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A revolutionary voice in English verse, and a much loved and celebrated lyric poet.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Selected verse from the Iliad and the Odyssey, edited by David Hopkins.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Critic, essayist, educator and poet, author of The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach, The Forsaken Merman and other popular poems.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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A selection of poems by George Crabbe, edited by Stephen Derry
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Both major novelist and major poet, with a distinctive off-beat and intensely personal style, Hardy is a modern writer born out of his time.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Chief satirist of the Augustan age, as seen in The rape of the Lock, Pope spoke out against society and his profession, in poetry of bitter invective and biting humour.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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A selection of Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry, edited by Martin Dodsworth
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Skelton is probably the greatest unknown poet of English literature. The outspoken tutor of the future Henry VIII,Skelton was an idiosyncratic genius whose poetry defies rules and boundaries....
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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The best of John Donne's poemsJohn Donne (1572-1631) was born into a Catholic family and studied law before sailing with Essex to attack Cadiz in 1596. He was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper (later Lord Chancellor), in 1598, but forfeited his...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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'Delia, when flames engulf my bier you'll weep for me,
and then you'll mix your kisses with sad tears.'
Tibullus (?55-18 BC) was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number included Ovid and Propertius. Living in the age of Augustus, his poems...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-12
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The collected poems of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.'I am the womanoffering two flowerswhose roots are twin.Justice and HopeHope and JusticeLet us begin'Alice Walker has been writing poetry since the summer of 1965, when she travelled to East...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-29
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The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published - a poem that embraces the theme 'seize the moment''One thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies'The epic, beautiful poem Rubaiyat is widely attributed to Omar Khayyam. As much a...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-11-03
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The Great Poets
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'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us'
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922,...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-04-14
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