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Collected Translations
ISBN: PB: 9781857542530, Carcanet, December 1996
608 pp., 21.5x13 cm
"The first translations I made – from Verlaine, in 1937 – were naive attempts to convey the enthusiasm I felt for the sudden discovery of a foreign poet: Verlaine said something to me in his language which no poet in my own language had ever said bef...
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£29,99
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Poet's Choice
ISBN: PB: 9781857542622, Carcanet, December 1996
288 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
In "A Poet's Choice" Elizabeth Jennings includes the poems which helped shape her taste – poems she read at school, or discovered in bookshops and the library, or pored over as an undergraduate – work which first gave her a taste for the art of poetr...
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£8,95
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Divine Comedy Hell, Purgatory, Heaven
ISBN: PB: 9780856462801, Carcanet, December 1996
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Dante's masterpiece is a foundation stone of European poetry. It was a profound influence on T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and in our own day has inspired Seamus Heaney. It is simple in style yet complex in its layers of meaning, episodic in manner yet...
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Sappho Through English Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9780856462733, Carcanet, December 1996
144 pp., 21.5x13.7 cm
The poetry of Sappho, who was born around 620 BC and lived on the Greek island of Lesbos, has inspired and fascinated readers and poets for two and a half thousand years. Today, as in antiquity, she is regarded as Greece's supreme lyric poet. Yet apa...
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Collected Poems and Verse of the Austen Family
ISBN: PB: 9781857542639, Carcanet, December 1996
144 pp., 19.8x13 cm
This volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny and her nephew James Edward. It is clear...
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£9,99
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Art of Growing Older Writers on Living and Aging
ISBN: PB: 9780226065496, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
386 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones
Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anthology he shows that the very making of art is in itself a victory over time.
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£23,50
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Collected Translations
ISBN: PB: 9781857542929, Carcanet, November 1996
384 pp., 21.4x13.6 cm
"C. H. Sisson is one of the great translators of our time", Jasper Griffin wrote in The Times Literary Supplement. "Latin, French, German, Italian: there can have been few writers who have published translations of Virgil, Racine, Heine and Dante, in...
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Edge to Edge New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856462726, Carcanet, November 1996
176 pp., 21.5x13.8 cm
"Edge to Edge" brings together the best of Peter Dale's original work from 1968 to the present. It is an impressive oeuvre which reveals Dale as a quintessentially English poet whose work is characterized by an intense depth of feeling, channeled and...
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Roman Elegies And Other Poems and Epigrams
ISBN: PB: 9780856462740, Carcanet, November 1996
128 pp., 23.5x16 cm
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is mainly known to the English-speaking world as the author of the poetic drama "Faust". In Europe – as poet, dramatist, novelist, art critic, literary theoretician, travel writer, author of a treatise on light...
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Elegies of Quintilius
ISBN: PB: 9780856462771, Carcanet, November 1996
112 pp., 21.7x16 cm
Peter Russell is at his lyrical and satirical best in the "Elegies" of his alter ego "Quintilius", a disaffected and maverick late Latin poet whose scabrous observations on the last decadent days and collapse of the Roman Empire, seen from a provinci...
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