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 well as other writings that can now be seen as central ...
The story of Christopher Homm, tracing him back through the estates, meat pies, love affairs, military service in India, and his inconsequential employments in the War's aftermath.
A selection of the 19th-century American poet's essays and poems. The editor singles out the unlikely and powerful qualities in Poe's language, explaining how these qualities are realized in the verse.
Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her "Goblin Market and Other Poems" (1862) having been - as if by accident - the writing from that group which first caught public attention. It contains many of her best poems. Later work - devotional poems, love lyrics and descriptive pieces - extended the themes and forms ...
From Whitehall to a sergeants' mess in India, commuter Sevenoaks to Hitler's Berlin, pre-war Paris to working-class Bristol: this is the partial autobiography of C.H.Sisson. 'On the Lookout', concentrating on Sisson's first half-century, will surprise the readers of his poems and essays both by its candour and reticence. it is the story of a poet ...
The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius (99BC-55BC) is one of the great books of the world, a lucid explanation of physical phenomena that develops into a majestic vision of the ultimate nature of the universe. Lucretius' observations of the particularities of the world remain vividly alive across the centuries. Through his eyes we see the growth of ...
As a member of the mid-16th-century literary group "La Pleiade", Joachim du Bellay sought to elevate his native French to the level of the classical languages - a goal pursued with great spirit, elegance, irony, and wit in the poems that comprise "The Regrets". Widely viewed as one of the finest sonnet sequences in all of French literature, this ...
A selection of Swift's poetry, which includes affectionate insights into the behaviour of his fellow men and of everyday life in Dublin. The anthology is arranged as closely as possibly in chronological order, and the poems are accompanied by commentary throughout the book.
The American poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) claimed, 'I am ...a poet - if deep worship of all beauty can make me one'. His reputation has suffered as many posthumous reversals as he himself did in his life. He was revered in France even before Baudelaire translated his stories and Mallarme his poems, while in Britain, and even in America, his ...
The worries many people have about the Church of England and its future are not confined to the most hotly debated in Synod. C.H. Sisson does not to have answers. What he does, in essays, meditations, poems and polemics which range over more than four decades, is to touch on a variety of matters - from current arguments about the language of the ...
The "De Rerum Natura" of Lucretius is a lucid explanation of physical phenomena that develops into a majestic vision of the ultimate nature of the universe.
A collection of poems by C.H. Sisson. This text shows how the author grounds his work in English landscapes, especially those of Somerset, and recalls the work of Eliot and Pound, and Hardy and Edward Thomas.
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