Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Annotated Texts Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Lyrical Balladsby William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a unique work of literature. first published in 1798, it marked a radical change in the direction of English Literature. Lyrical Balladsrepresented a movement away from the overwrought, highly formal and learned verse of the 18th centur ...Show more
Give Me Your Hand: Poems Inspired by Paintings in The National Gallery London by Paul Durcan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In 1991, poet Paul Durcan was curator of a show at the National Gallery in Dublin and wrote a collection of poems based on the paintings in that show - Crazy About Women. This book follows a similar idea and is a collection of 50 poems inspired by paintings in the London National Gallery.
Prompting the Age - Poems Early and Late by A. L. Rowse
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Configurations - New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998 by Clarence Major
$16.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Finalist for the National Book Award Drawing his most outstanding work from nine previous volumes of award-winning poetry, Clarence Major had added a substantial body of new work to present a clear assessment of his forty-year career. By turns humorous and serious, Major is always richly lyrical whi ...Show more
American Yiddish Poetry - A Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin Harshav; Barbara Harshav
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. Includes a bilingual facing-page format, notes and biographies of poets, and selections from Yiddish theory and criticism.
Ben Jonson - The Complete Poems by Ben Jonson; George Parfitt (Introduction by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
His adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urbane elegance of his verse forms he contrived a directness and energy of statement clearly related to colloquial speech, and this characteristic fusion of restrain ...Show more
Rain-Charm for the Duchy and Other Laureate Poems by Ted Hughes
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects ...Show more