This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
'O let them be left, wildness and wet'As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'.
The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poetsTennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name.
Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter.
One of the greatest poems of the classical world, Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation.
Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautr amont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality.
In this authoritative edition of John Milton s epic poem, Paradise Lost is presented in the original language of its 1674 publication, with explanatory annotations and word glosses.
Se ha de leer este poema como un manifiesto político, un canto a la Argentina desolada, una expresión de quien observa la realidad de un país que está siendo devorado por las corporaciones.
Envueltos en una atmósfera de melancolía y pasión, los poemas de este libro nos transportan a un mundo donde las emociones se entrelazan con el lenguaje de una manera delicada y profunda.
Drawn from fifty years of experimental, ground-breaking verse, this selection, in Ginberg's words summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing .
Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readersLittle of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's biography can be confirmed other than his work as a teacher in Scotland's Ardnamurchan Peninsula and his role as a captain in the 1745 Jacobite Uprising.
Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readersLittle of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's biography can be confirmed other than his work as a teacher in Scotland's Ardnamurchan Peninsula and his role as a captain in the 1745 Jacobite Uprising.
Among other thought-provoking themes and topics,this collection rips open issues of domestic violence,unemployment, justice, bias, sleaze, strength, solidarity,and exploitation in a furious, fearless and fresh fashion.
Moving between longing, anxiety, nostalgia, isolation, and emotional fixation, Nothing of Note Happened Here creates a landscape where the mundane becomes sacred, where a passing road sign or a drive through a town can carry the weight of an entire lost world.
