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George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge—in short, to think—as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."
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From the last twenty years, here, for the first time, is a body of poetry from the artist known as Calactus. From romantic poetry, to dreams translated into Surrealist writing, to everyday reflections, Calactus includes all of his pondering upon the bizarre to the wonderful in this collection. Lyrics from the extensive output of the band Calactus covering the genres of alternative rock, ambient, experimental and electronica; is covered here, pushing...
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Pocket Book of Romantic Poetry is a compact compendium of the best poetry of the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. It includes some of the greatest poems in the English language, among them Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Shelley's "Ozymandias, Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," and Coleridge's "Kubla Khan."
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A bittersweet and vital play that throws a spotlight on 'Generation Rent' and the lengths they will go to in order to get that first step on the property ladder.
Rachel and Ben want to buy a flat in London. And so do their friends, Melanie and Sam. But what with rent, tax, student loans and bills, it's impossible to save for a deposit.
So the foursome come up with a fast-track solution to the problem: live together. Sneakily split the rent and bills...
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Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 18th century and early 19th century English lyricist William Wordsworth was one of the most prominent poets of the Romantic era. His first work "Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems" was penned with Coleridge, though most of the volume is by Wordsworth, and its publication in 1798, is generally considered to mark the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. Second editions of "Lyrical Ballads"...
86) Killochries
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A verse novella by Glasgow Laureate Jim Carruth, Killochries tracks the relationship of two very different men working a remote farm over the course of twelve months. A young man is sent to work at Killochries, a farm belonging to a relative, after burning out in the city. He is appalled by the absence of his previous life's essentials, by the remote strangeness of this new world. The old shepherd has never left the hills; has farmed them all his...
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The Essential Alfred Tennyson Collection, in one book: Beauties of Tennyson, The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden &c., Idylls of the King, The Last Tournament, The Princess, The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Becket and other plays, Queen Mary and Harold.
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Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father.
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'I started to write more poetry
Different kinds and types were they all
At times it could seem to be a strain
About subjects both large and small...'
LESLIE LEWIS
As the title of his collection suggests, Leslie Lewis' poetry encompasses many different styles and subjects, from the personal to the political, from light-hearted to serious.
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Although Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan period, it was a robust time in the evolution of English theater, and many plays beyond the Bard's survive to enthrall modern drama students. This original anthology collects prime examples of the era's tragedies, dramas that both informed and were influenced by Shakespeare's work. Include here are The Spanish Tragedy, by Thomas Kyd; Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe; Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed...
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“Lovefuries” offers a double bill of performance pieces that explode national and personal pressures to keep silent, and explore the surprising and shocking resurgences of life that break through grief. In “The Contracting Sea”, the fiancée of a just-shipwrecked sailor is challenged by a feminine elemental force of catastrophe to throw off the shackles of her common humanity. The second play, “The Hanging Judge”, explores from the inside...
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Para el público en general, Martin Seymour-Smith (1928-1998) es conocido como un distinguido biógrafo literario, en particular de Robert Graves, Rudyard Kipling y Thomas Hardy. Para figuras como Stephen Spender y Anthony Burgess es uno de los eruditos más independientes de su generación, a través de su pionera edición crítica de los Sonetos de Shakespeare y su magistral Guía de la literatura mundial moderna. Para Graves, James Reeves, Sisson...
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From the EU, to Covid, to White Van Men, this is a little book of life experiences and observations in rhyme.
Hopefully, some poems will make you smile. Others are reflective and thought-provoking. Most relay a message.
Rhymes from Rural England is full of feel-good verses which put life in perspective.
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Two beautifully crafted dramas set among the folk of the Aran Islands and western Irish coastlands. The Playboy of the Western World deals with its young hero's progress, in the eyes of others, from timid weakling to paragon of bravery. Riders to the Sea is a dark elegy to the fragile existence of those who live at the mercy of the sea. Reprinted from authoritative editions, complete with Synge's preface to The Playboy of the Western World. New introductory...
95) Rain: Poems
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In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and to offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address or more personal in their direction, these poems-addressed...
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This 1920 play by Galsworthy-made into a 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock-features a collision between two families: the "old-money" Hillcrists and the nouveau-riche Hornblowers. As the patriarchs of the two families squabble over a piece of land, an innocent young woman will pay the price.
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Nocturnal Sunrise is a collection of dark sombre verse reflecting the thoughts and memories of the author. Its deep and often menacing content reveals life as seen through her eyes. Each verse concentrates on the heart rendering pain explored within relationships, trying to capture the torment, pain and suffering that is felt when betrayed. Each poem tries to explore our deepest turmoil. Emotions we often refuse to recognise, demonising such thoughts...
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The Death of Galahad is one long poem. In it, the Arthurian hero Galahad is a compromised contemporary of European man who is voyaging through Hell. His heroines, his army, his critics and his antagonists also inhabit the poem, in which the sordid and the sacred meet, the anxieties and conflicts of a failed modernity and a future ideal undergo furious trial, and the mind of a young man battles for new vision through ordeals and temptations, seeking...
100) Maggot: Poems
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Of Plan B, an interim volume that included several of the poems in Maggot, Robert McCrum recently said in the London Observer, that "Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poet's task, has surpassed himself with his latest collection." In his eleventh full-length book, Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's...