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By David Jesson Dibley, Leigh Hunt
November 20, 2003
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a prolific, versatile and engaging writer. He outlived many of the poets and essayists of his generation whose reputations overshadowed his, but Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats all owed a debt to his advocacy, as did Tennyson and Browning. A poet of charm and ...
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By Alan Munton, Wyndham Lewis
November 20, 2003
At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett. This volume includes major works: One-Way Song , and Enemy of the Stars in its two very different versions, as ...
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By C.H. Sisson, Edgar Allan Poe
April 11, 2003
His reputation has never settled, seeing as many reversals after his death as during his life. Though read and enjoyed ny many, fewer admire him openly. This volume includes all of his poetry and his most important essays....
By Gabriel d'Annunzio
April 11, 2003
First published in 2003. GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO was born in 1863 in Pescara, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, the son of a wealthy landowner. His first volume of poetry was published in 1879, when he was sixteen. After graduating from the University of Rome, d'Annunzio married and began to write short ...
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By Dennis Keene, Henry Howard
April 11, 2003
This book is a collection of selected poems of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, who is revealed as subtle and graceful poet and a translator whose vigorous and faithful versions of the Aeneid continue to enrich the literary tradition....
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By Val Warner, Charlotte Mew
March 28, 2003
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) is increasingly left out od collectoins of modernist poets, and yet her feminist themes might bring new dimensions to the history of modernism. This volume collects all her known poetry and also includes examples in other genres she tried....
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By Malcolm Hicks, Aphra Behn
March 28, 2003
This book presents a collection of the poetry of the 17th-century writer Aphra Behn. It examines the relationships between the sexes, seen from the woman's point of view. The book also includes some of Behn's translations, occasional pieces, satires, and songs....
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By Grevel Lindop, Thomas Chatterton
March 28, 2003
This book presents Thomas Chatterton's selected poems. It includes introductions to Chatterton's life, technique, and reputation, and shows the historical significance and unexpected range of his poetry, which spans the genres of satire, elegy, lyric, narrative verse, and poetic drama....
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By Duncan Wu, William Wordsworth
November 08, 2002
These early poems, made readily accessible to a general readership for the first time, offer a unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer from the outset of his career. These poems reveal how the traumas of early life forged his vision and produced the insights that would ...
By Walter Martin
April 12, 2002
Rimbaud called Charles Baudelaire 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu'. The history of modern poetry begins with him. This is a comprehensive translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. Baudelaire contemplated ...
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By William Empson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, David Pirie
April 12, 2002
The poems and poem fragments selected by Epson and Pirie represent the very best of Coleridges work. Many of Coleridge's poems are astounding successes, but for everyone of these there are also abysmal failures making it difficult for the layman to approach this leading Romantic without guidance....
By Rainer Maria Rilke
April 12, 2002
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....