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Eternal Moment Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856461866, ISBN: HB: 9780856461859, Carcanet, September 1988
152 pp., 22x14 cm
The unique poetic world of Sandor Weores has fascinated readers in Hungary ever since he began to publish poems in 1928, at the Mozartian age of fifteen. Today he is considered one of the greatest poets in his language and one of the major European p...
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Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
ISBN: HB: 9780856357541, Carcanet, August 1988
304 pp., 22x14 cm
"It occurred to me to wonder what would really happen to a modern man thrown back to the Middle Ages", Ford Madox Ford said after reading Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". The fruit of this meditation is "Ladies Whose Bright...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856357534, Carcanet, July 1988
128 pp., 22x14 cm
The present volume provides the best introduction to the work of this intelligent and lucid poet, with a selection from previous collections and a handful of recent poems. It offers vivid impressions of South Africa, Westmorland, Cumberland and the A...
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Hoop
ISBN: PB: 9780856357428, Carcanet, June 1988
80 pp., 22x13 cm
In "The Hoop", his first book of poems, John Burnside takes his bearings from Celtic mythology and from landscape, especially that of Gloucestershire. "The things that contribute to how I work are botanical texts and drawings, fairy stories, Celtic a...
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Collected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780856357343, Carcanet, February 1988
128 pp., 22x14 cm
E. J. Scovell has made her own terms with poetry. She has published only four book-length collections, her first in 1944, though she started writing in the 1920s. This volume reveals that she has not been as "scarce" a poet as her admirers have belie...
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Religious Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9780856353079, Carcanet, January 1988
96 pp., 19x13 cm
A selection of poems from the 18th-century poet Christopher Smart. This book includes his four most famous works.
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Walks in Rome
ISBN: PB: 9780856461972, ISBN: HB: 9780856461965, Carcanet, January 1988
32 pp., 23x15 cm
In F. T. Prince's new poem a visit to Rome brings back memories of fifty years ago, today's graffiti contrasting with Mussolini's slogans. Things seen, a plaque for Stendhal or a chapel with paintings by Caravaggio, are used to suggest young and olde...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856354168, Carcanet, January 1988
264 pp., 22x14 cm
George Meredith (1828-1909) is best known as the author of "The Egoist" and "Diana of the Crossways". His poetry, however, notably the poems from "Modern Love", is emerging from long eclipse, and this selection reveals the diversity and originality o...
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Selected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9780856352317, Carcanet, January 1988
128 pp., 19x13 cm
Thomas Traherne's poems were discovered in London in 1896 and originally assigned in error to Henry Vaughan. Later scholarship has established their true authorship. Traherne (1637-1674) was a remarkable religious writer. The son of a Hereford shoe-m...
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