A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry by M. M. Badawi
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This book is the first critical survey of the development and achievements of 'modern' Arabic poetry, here signifying the period from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the present day. It ranges over the entire Arabic-speaking world and includes a discussion of the work of poets who emigrated ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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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)
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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