Results for: books tagged ‘Language’
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
Almost: Oliver Reynolds
Oliver Reynolds's fourth collection is dominated by love poems, all of them marked by the candour, tenderness, musicality and power to convey strong feeling that are traditionally associated with the ... More
The Beast in the Nursery: Adam Phillips
This book is a dazzling look at childhood curiosity and appetite - what inspires it, what kills it, and how it may be sustained. Growing up is a process of ... More
The Brown Parrots of Providencia: Fergus Allen
Fergus Allen's work ranges broadly from sombre reflections on the loneliness and bestiality of human experience, through small fictional psychodramas, to light-hearted fantasy, as in his unexpected poem about Guinness's ... 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 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
The Curtain: Milan Kundera
'A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world,' writes Milan Kundera in The Curtain, his fascinating new book on the art of the novel. 'Cervantes sent Don Quixote ... More
Emergency Kit: Jo Shapcott and Matthew Sweeney
Emergency Kit is an anthology with many differences. It is, to begin with, a book which gives prominence to poems rather than to the poets who wrote them. It is ... More
The End of the Poem: Paul Muldoon
The End of the Poem brings together the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Individual performances of great ... More
The F Word: Jesse Sheidlower
Here in one convenient, comprehensive volume is the complete history of the word still considered the most vulgar and offensive utterance in the English language. Rather than tired cliches or ... More
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