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Early Twentieth Century
'More
books', my mother sighed as I returned;
My father, handing me half-a-crown, Said,
'If you must buy books then buy the best.'
John Betjeman from Summoned
by Bells
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| Thomas, Edward £12.99 <convert> 
Since
the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his
poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recognised
as one of the great English poets of the 20th century. Though
sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a 'war
poet', he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war,
and whose main subjects were the English countryside and its
people, and the solitude of the observing self. The present
edition offers the complete poems together with detailed editorial
apparatus in what has become acknowledged as the standard edition
by R. George Thomas. It also includes Thomas's remarkable prose
War Diary of 1917.
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Lawrence, D.H.; Pinto, Vivian De Sola, Roberts, F.Warren (ed.) £15.99 <convert>
This collection includes all the poems from the incomplete "Collected
Poems" of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued
during Lawrence's lifetime; uncollected poems; an appendix of
juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts;
and all Lawrence's critical introductions to his poems. It also
includes full textual and explanatory notes. | |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria £8.99 <convert>
The verse in this collection ranges from the objective, naturalistic
descriptions of Rilke's earliest work to the effusive outpourings
of half-religious ecstasy and anguish that characterize his
later poems and culminate in the personal vision of the "Duino
Elegies" and "The Sonnets of Orpheus".
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Lorca, Federico Garcia £9.95 <convert>
This bilingual edition of Spain's greatest modern poet and
dramatist is the first to include Lorca's last poems, the previously
lost Sonnets of Dark Love. It covers the full range of his poetry,
from the early poems and the gypsy ballads to the agitated Poet
in New York and the Arab-inßuenced gacelas and casidas.
It also includes the Lament for Sanchez Mej as, Lorca's great
elegy for his bullfighter friend, as well as his famous lecture
on the duende, the daemon of Spanish music, poetry and art. | |
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Mandelstam, Osip £9.95 <convert>
Mandelstam
was one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century. The Moscow
Notebooks contain poems from his years of persecution. Exiled
for his poem on Stalin's 'cockroach moustache', he wrote the
90 poems in the Voronezh notebooks in a last, late flowering.
This new edition brings together translations originally published
in separate books.
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Gurney, Ivor; Kavanagh, P.J. (ed.) £14.95 <convert>
In this new edition Gurney's
poems have been re-ordered to take into account new scholarship
with the texts having been revised and corrected against the
manuscripts. Gurney is now acknowledged as one of the major
war poets with a resurgence in public interest.
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Rosenberg, Issac £12.00 <convert>
Isaac Rosenberg has long been regarded as one of the most
important artistic figures of the First World War. His poems,
such as 'Dead Man's Dump' and 'Break of Day in the Trenches',
have been included in every significant war anthology and have
earned him a place in Poets' Corner. He studied at the Slade
School of Art at the same time as Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler,
showing promise as a painter. His poverty, education and background
made him an outsider, yet equipped him to cope with the unforeseen
horror of war in the trenches.
In this Selected Poems and Letters, his biographer Jean Liddiard
has made a substantial selection of his finest poems and most
revealing letters, providing also an authoritative introduction
and a detailed chronology. | | | | | | | | |
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Collected Poems
Complete Poems
Selected Poems
Selected Poems
Moscow and Voronezh Notebooks
Collected Poems
Selected Poems and Letters