English | ISBN: 1107643074, 1107051983 | 2014 | 338 Pages | PDF | 2 MB Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It...

2018 | ISBN: 0811227502 | English | 112 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB A gorgeous gift edition, dedicated to the mystery, grace, and charm of the cat  Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror...

English | 2017 | ISBN: 1107175747 | 238 pages | PDF | 1 MB Achilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus’ return causes civil strife on Ithaca. The Iliad and the Odyssey depict conflict where consensus should...

English | August 29th, 2018 | ISBN: 0393355209 | 176 Pages | EPUB | 0.24 MB A comprehensive guide to writing or reading poetry, by “one of our most lucid and important critics” (American Academy of Arts and Letters). Why does a great lyric poem ask to be...

2005 | 253 Pages | ISBN: 0195174917 | PDF | 1.7 MB Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their...

English | July 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1784741396 | EPUB | 64 Pages | 0.7 MB *Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize 2017**Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize 2018**Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018**Shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry...

2014 | ISBN: 1908524340 | English | 400 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was one of Scotland’s leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland...

English | October 5th, 2018 | ISBN: 1619022249, 1582434077 | 192 Pages | EPUB | 1.48 MB In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions,...

English | October 5th, 2012 | ISBN: 1611494915 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 0.77 MB Little has been said about the relationship of Herbert’s writings to those of John Calvin, yet the latter were abundant and influential in Herbert’s Church of England. Accordingly Picturing Religious Experience studies...