Results for: books tagged ‘Poetry Anthologies’
101 Poems about Childhood: Michael Donaghy
Childhood, according to Rilke, was one of poetry's two inexhaustible sources. The poems in this anthology are an index of the idea of childhood, from nostalgia to expressions of love ... More
101 Sonnets: Don Paterson
Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has ... More
20th-Century Irish Poems: Michael Longley
'This anthology results from decades of random reading plus a recent deliberate trawl to discover more examples of what Robert Graves calls 'heart-rending sense', poems I would want to copy ... More
20th-Century Italian Poems: Jamie McKendrick
Italy has produced some of the most inventive and controversial poetry of the past one hundred years. In this new anthology, all the major Italian poets of the early part ... More
20th-Century Scottish Poems: Douglas Dunn
[Douglas Dunn's Preface to 20th-Century Scottish Poems]Editing The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (1992; revised paperback edition, 1993) was an arduous but rewarding task. This book is based on ... More
Before the Romantics: Geoffrey Grigson
The second in a trio of anthologies by Geoffrey Grigson (The Romantics, Before the Romantics and The Victorians) that are both highly entertaining and provide a fresh approach to the ... More
By Heart: Ted Hughes
What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English ... More
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse: Richard Hamer
The essential canon of Old English poetry, with parallel verse translation, in this now classic edition.A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short ... More
A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse: Ted Hughes
For this new edition, first published in 1971, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and completely rewrote his accompanying essay, intending to restore to ... More
Contemporary Irish Poetry: Paul Muldoon
First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats. Here the reader can explore ... More
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