Selected Poems of Thom Gunn

A beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunn's classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes.

Reducere. Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassi...

This selection of correspondence presents, for the first time, the private life and reflections of a maverick figure in the history of British and ...

Reducere. This collection covers the span of Thom Gunn's remarkable poetic career over almost forty years. Gunn has made a speciality of playing style agains...

Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergr...

The Passages of Joy, published in 1982, saw Thom Gunn writing at the height of his powers. The poems combine personal directness with an apparently...

Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more coll...

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyric...

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Writer and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him ...

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Reducere. For the first time ever, a selected poetry collection from Emanuel Xavier, renowned LGBTQ poet and one of the Latinx community's treasures.When he ...

Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1, 775 poems left unpublis...

Reducere. ``The hard-won achievement of a lifetime.`` -- Wall Street Journal ``When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that's what...

Reducere. This selection, which is drawn from Anne Sexton's ten published volumes of poems as well as from representative early and last work, is an ideal in...

I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be', wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the ad...

A new addition to the acclaimed }Poet To Poet{ series, in which a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Thomas was a remarka...

DescriptionThe most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)--the founder of modern ...

Reducere. Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet and critic, was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. Within a thirteen-year period,...

He has published his poems in many forms, including - again his own invention - New Numbers, a constantly changing collage, which appears here in i...

Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. His post-war memoir World within World was recognised as one of the most illu...

This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collecti...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decade...

Reducere. A companion to The Complete Poems, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments, while ...

DescriptionEdith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her novel The Age of Innocence, was also a brilliant poet. Thi...

Reducere. Homero Pumarol's poetry reveals another country. It opens doors that were previously marked out with trepidation. Facing the disappointments from t...

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published w...

Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissabl...

Vivid, attentive to the world, the poems in these lucid translations share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, 'to experience aston...

Reducere. DescriptionHere, in a new selection of 200 poems from five decades, is the distinctive voice of Robert Creeley, reminding us of what has made him o...

An ideal introduction to the work of one of the defining figures of the 20th century, containing 'The Waste Land' and 'The Love Song Of J. Alfred P...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nikki GiovanniWhen Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately t...

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is ava...