Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
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Category: writing poetry literature
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest o ...Show more
You Do You by Sam Morley
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Category: writing poetry literature
Meditations on parenthood, memory, death, the natural world, the fluctuations of pop culture, and the suburban grind with aplomb in a keen observational styleSam Morley's second collection comprises poetry that is image-rich, fusing the sublime with the common. Always committed to observation as a chann ...Show more
100 Novels That Changed the World by Colin Salter
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The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had been stories and epic poems from ancient times - Homer's Iliad ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
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Category: writing poetry literature
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
Michael Morpurgo's Tales from Shakespeare by Michael Morpurgo
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Ten stunning Shakespeare retellings from the master storyteller. Beautifully written with Michael Morpurgo’s warm, accessible and inimitable style, this wonderful collection offers a new generation of readers the chance to discover the magic of Shakespeare – the perfect introduction to the Bard and an u ...Show more
Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 by Sigrid Rausing
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Since the first 'Best of Young British Novelists' issue in 1983, Granta has championed the work of authors who have changed the landscape of British literature. In 1983, featured writers included Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker, among many others. Subsequent edi ...Show more
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (PB) by Henry Thoreau
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
American author, naturalist, and abolitionist, Henry David Thoreau was a principal figure of the 19th century movement of Transcendentalism. Central to the philosophy is a belief that people, who are inherently good, are corrupted by the organized institutions of society and that consequently the best c ...Show more
Googlecholia by Michael Farrell
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The Judith Wright Calanthe Award is Australia’s most prestigious poetry prize. Its award to Michael Farrell marks him out as one of our most important poets. There is no one like him for his souped-up surrealism, the range of his images, his wit and playfulness, his satirical takes on contemporary life. ...Show more
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
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The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest order. Th ...Show more
Paradise Lost & Other Poems by Milton, John
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, Paradise Lost has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in Penguin Classics.In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ...Show more
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
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A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize - for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the various ...Show more