Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.

'An irresistibly coherent book which celebrates the rising and the raising of the human spirit.

This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).

Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry.

Widely and justly celebrated for his flawless handling of the lyric, Seamus Heaney is here shown venturing into new imaginative territory.

Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913.

As the title implies, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health.

Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation.

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader.

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years.

Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon.

When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets.

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married.

Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems.

Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime.

This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes.

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years.

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death.

In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape.

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity.

Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966).

The Sense of Movement, Thom Gunn's second collection, was first published in 1957.

The Passages of Joy, published in 1982, saw Thom Gunn writing at the height of his powers.

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Included in Prufrock and Other Observations are the following poems:The Love Song of J.

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain .

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry.

Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil our futures, or allow us to realize the golden age of five minutes ago, or weigh the 'out there' of the present moment, where what is in sight is also out of reach.

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A wide-ranging discussion of the morality and legality of medically assisted death.

A consideration of the ''slippery slope'' objection to voluntary euthanasia, including a review of the Dutch experience.

The thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches from the three-time T.

Die "Oevelgönner Ausgabe" wird fortgesetzt mit den grundlegenden poetologischen Überlegungen des jungen Rühmkorf.

By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.

From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (On the Pulse of Morning and His Day Is Done, respectively), every inspiring word of Maya Angelou's poetry is included in the pages of this volume.

Selecting the very best of his work from over fifty years, Opal Sunset demonstrates Clive James as one of the most versatile and accomplished poets of the past half-century.

One of his most accomplished collections, Angels Over Elsinore brings together the finest poetry written between 2003-2008 by Clive James, much-loved broadcaster, poet and author of Unreliable Memoirs.

Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose TremainThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet.

Public Dream, Frances Leviston's first collection of poetry, is one of the most eagerly-awaited debuts in years.

This revealing volume explores recent historical perspectives on the modern euthanasia and assisted-suicide debate and the political arenas in which it has unfolded.

While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of this question beyond the borders of the United States.

Autonomy is a vital principle in medical law and ethics.

A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gorgeous .

'Moving and hopeful .

This new book explores aspects of Paris from the time of Baudelaire within the context of nostalgia and modernity.

This new book explores aspects of Paris from the time of Baudelaire within the context of nostalgia and modernity.