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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Selected poems from a Nobel laureateIn 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from The Cure at Troy to Death of a Naturalist. It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. Seamus Heaney ha ...Show more
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
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. "If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same t ...Show more
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
No book has done more to define modern poetry than T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems. The pinnacle of a lifetime's curation by Eliot himself, it was initially published in 1936, and then revised by Eliot to form the present edition of the text that was issued in 1963. But over the course of a lifetime, and ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ("The Old Fools", "This Be the Ver ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Ver ...Show more
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin
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Category: Biography | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, w ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot; Seamus Heaney (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this c ...Show more
Stevie Smith: a Selection by Stevie Smith; Hermione Lee (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an a ...Show more
The Poem : Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work ? Part polemic, part technical treatise and part meditation, The Poem is an ambitious contempor ...Show more
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems by T. S. Eliot; Christopher Ricks (Editor); Jim McCue (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This critical edition of T. S. Eliot's Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains t ...Show more