Selected Poetry: [including Hlderlin's Sophocles] (Hlderlin Friedrich)(Paperback)

Selected Poetry: [including Hlderlin's Sophocles] (Hlderlin Friedrich)(Paperback)

Friedrich H lderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine's widely-praised H lderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996), containing many

Two Studies of Friedrich Hlderlin (Hamacher Werner)(Paperback)

Two Studies of Friedrich H lderlin shows how the poet develops and enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique, unprecedented, and still groundbreaking concept of revolution that begins with a revolutionary understanding of language. The product of an intense engagement with both

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

Oedipus the King: Sophocles (Sophocles)(Paperback)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order

Friedrich Hoelderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness (Waiblinger Wilhelm)(Paperback / softback)

Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose (Milton John)(Paperback)

This Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose includes 'Lycidas'--widely considered the greatest short poem in English--the great tragedy Samson Agonistes, the masque Comus, the brief epic Paradise Regained, and eighteen sonnets as well as other poems. It also contains the

Selected Poetry (Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von)(Paperback)

Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical, and the works selected in this volume represent more than sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus, ' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervor, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic

The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Jeffers Robinson)(Paperback)

In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers--in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s

Selected Poems (Graves Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Selected Poems by Robert Graves now in poetry front-list

The Complete Poetry (Herbert George)(Paperback)

A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in an astonishing variety of forms his inner experiences

Selected Poems and Fragments (Holderlin Friedrich)(Paperback)

Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology

The Complete Sophocles: Volume 1: The Theban Plays (Burian Peter)(Paperback)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek inorder to

Eating Fire - Selected Poetry 1965-1995 (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates a major literary talent. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. In this volume, two previous selections, Poems 1965-1975 and Poems

Poetry Please! - More Poetry Please (BBC Radio 4)(Paperback / softback)

A selection of poems from the successful Radio 4 series, including Auden, Betjeman, Hopkins and MacNeice, with an introduction by Charles

Selected Poems (Jamie Kathleen)(Paperback)

A timely career retrospective including material from Kathleen Jamie's earlier collections and featuring writing on her recurrent themes of nature, language, and human and animal

Selected Poems (Clarke Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

A stunning collection from one of the most important figures in poetry

Selected Poems (Kavanagh Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

A comprehensive selection of Kavanagh's poetry. It includes selection that range from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' (1942) and celebratory verse, 'To Hell with Common Sense' and 'Come Dance with Kitty

Selected Poetry (Macdiarmid Hugh)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing on the literary and vernacular traditions of Scottish culture, Hugh MacDiarmid's creates modern literature that is both nationalistic and international in its range. This selection of his poetry explores the diversity of his writing, from delicate lyrics to fierce

On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

'We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche.'--New York Times Book ReviewReissued for the age of 'fake news,' On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche's evolving thinking on truth, which has exerted a powerful influence over modern and contemporary thought. This original

Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002 (Dooley Maura)(Paperback)

Presents a comprehensive selection of poetry, including work for explaining magnetism and kissing a

Selected Poetry (Pope Alexander)(Paperback)

Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of

Selected Poetry (Coleridge Samuel Taylor)(Paperback / softback)

With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as 'the metaphysical dreamer' and rediscovering him as a Romantic

Selected Poetry (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood, love, marriage, age, and death. Those elegies inspired by the death of his first wife

Daybreak: New and Selected Poems (Malroux Claire)(Paperback)

A bilingual collection of poetry, from elegies to poem memoirs, by a revered French master. For more than four decades Claire Malroux has forged a unique path in contemporary French poetry, informed by the French tradition, by poets such as Yves Bonnefoy and Mallarm , and, more unusually, by the