The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music.
In this, his first collection of poems in fifteen years, Aidan Mathews brings together the sacred and the profane, playful and profound, the iconic and the everyday - illuminating the variousness and commonality of human experience.
This critical study covers the whole range of Dylan Thomas's writing, both poetry and prose, in an accessible appraisal of the work and achievement of a major and dynamic poet.
"Daß besagter Dietrich Grabbe einer der größten Dichter war und von allen unseren dramatischen Dichtern wohl als derjenige genannt werden darf, der die meiste Verwandtschaft mit Shakespeare hat.
Der Schwerpunkt dieser Darstellung des bis in die Gegenwart lebendigen Artusstoffes liegt auf der Genese und auf der hochhöfischen Artusepik in Frankreich (Chrétien) und in Deutschland (Hartmann, Wolfram).
Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas.
Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W.
Offering a variety of advice for tapping into your creative voice, sharing your work online, and honing your writing skills, You/Poet shows you how to express yourself creatively through the art of poetry.
This rich selection of John Fuller s poems, made by the author himself, is taken from his last eight collections and spans over twenty-five years of work.
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains.
Lucid, complex, sensual and richly textured, the poems in The Invisible Mender are notable for the breadth of their subject matter and the precision of their detail.
Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century.
ONE OF THE CENTRAL WORKS OF AMERICAN POETRYFirst published in 1855, this poetry collection by American poet, Walt Whitman is a celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity, and spans the human element from the perspective of both the mind and the body.
Die vorliegende Einführung in die Lyrik und Poetik Paul Celans bietet dem Leser neben vier exemplarischen Interpretationen der Gedichte Todesfuge, Todtnauberg, Lindenblättrige und Walliser Elegie erstmals Interpretationstechniken, die eine selbstständige Auseinandersetzung mit Celans Gedichten ermöglichen.
This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt and disbelief.
