Poetry of the First World War, Paperback

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centen...

* A collection of poetry and essays on war by one of the most prominent women writers from that period, author of the famous TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. A ...

Auden, Lewis, MacNeice and other key poets of the 'Thirties' were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism and by the cl...

Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the te...

Maria Stepanova is one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers. This first full English translation of her poetry includes thre...

Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflect...

Reducere. The first comprehensive anthology of modern Italian poetry, in a beautiful bilingual editionMore than a century has passed since F. T. Marinetti's ...

The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory...

DescriptionBased on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensu...

Reducere. From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War IThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atroc...

This first anthology of 'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan Thomas, W.S...

Reducere. Poetry. Edited by Gian Lombardo. For the first time ever, this volume collects together all of Harry Crosby's published prose poems, including the ...

Reducere. The poetry of America's first published black poet was published before the Revolutionary War and recognized throughout the English-speaking world....

Reducere. DescriptionGadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Gadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Ga...

DescriptionEdward Thomas (1878 - 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems ...

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Wes...

"Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches" is a 1920 collection of poetry by English poet and soldier Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (1893-1918). A ...

This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from h...

DescriptionAt the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the ...

A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, " writes Gerald...

Reducere. Osip Mandelstam's is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891-1938) began as one of the more original poets of the Russi...

From Homer to Tim O'Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are ...

Reducere. I m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form...

Reducere. Sleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen's major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be ...

Reducere. This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained pre-eminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects not only the...

Reducere. Sansei Amy Uyematsu's The Yellow Door celebrates her Japanese-American roots and the profound changes that have occurred in her lifetime. As a woma...

Reducere. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD is a debut prose collection by award-winning poet Cathy Song. The...

DescriptionIn 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled p...

Reducere. First published in 1918, "A Spring Harvest" is the posthumous collection of poetry by Geoffrey Bache Smith, a close high school and college friend ...

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehe...

fire / and water surging on the screen - / since children, metros, planets, beds, and lovers are / so lightly swept away - I must not even breathe....

DescriptionA Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection Wanderi...

Reducere. Sea GardenByH. D.Hilda "H.D." Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist known for her assoc...

Reducere. Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration,...

Reducere. "A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre."--Teju Cole, The New Yorker German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative autho...

DescriptionPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. Latinx Studies. Edited by Tony Frazer. Translated by Michael Smith, Luis Ingelmo, Tony Frazer, Eliot Weinbe...

Reducere. Kurihara Sadako is one of the poetic giants of the nuclear age. Born in Hiroshima in 1913, she was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. From then till n...

Reducere. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Costa Biography Award**Washington Post Best Books of 2013****Economist Best Books of...

Vernon Watkins is a great riddle at the heart of twentieth century poetry. His poetry has been praised in the highest terms by, among others, T.S. ...

Reducere. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which ...

Reducere. When the first glass was emptied, Alejandro and Petrus smiled at each other and Jes s noticed the redhead's lovely grey and pensive eyes."Where did...

DescriptionH.D's writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collect...

'Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat - full of passion and poetry' - Max Arthur, Independent 'Magical evocation of the lonely bat...

Reducere. An eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan womenBecause my love's American, blisters blossom on my heart.Afghans revere poetry, parti...

Reducere. The Ventriloquist gives us four fearless and seminal works by one of Canada's master poets and is a scathing indictment of war and its ravages. It'...

DescriptionIn Rivers Applaud Forever, Raymond Filip, the craftsman and musician, showcases his spoken-word texts that perform on a silent page, as ...

Reducere. With Mother Russia under siege, a daring 17-year old teenage girl hangs up her ice skates and heads for the skies. Initially rebuffed as a child in...

Reducere. A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sib...