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The “technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems” (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume. The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awa……続きを見る

Now. Tonight. Before we're sent back to the front. Take every bit of money you got. Ditch everything else. July 1916. Albert Ingham and Alfred Longshaw are crouched in a muddy, rat-infested trench i……続きを見る

Poetastery is a collection of mainly nonsense verse although you may find something more serious or noteworthy in there if you delve deeply enough. Designed for ages 5 to 105 most of the poems are i……続きを見る

A friend and keen supporter of Shelley and Keats, Leigh Hunt’s Romantic poetry reflects his learned knowledge of French and Italian versification. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of……続きを見る

"Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey." --Billy Collins . . . there goes the sudden shriek of the blackbird . . . all alive inside the inhuman b……続きを見る

On a frosty winter evening, the Baron watches the snow fall. He is bored and worried. It will soon be Christmas and everything is too quiet. What can he do to bring excitement to the Manor? His wife……続きを見る

Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Thea……続きを見る

First published in 1987. While there have been commentaries on his humour, his seriousness, his social concerns, and other specific aspects of his work such accounts have only tended to divide our u……続きを見る

First published in 1968, this book sets out to refute the idea of Trollope as a ‘mild cathedral-town novelist, describing storms in ecclesiastical tea cups’ which prevailed at the time in spite of h……続きを見る

**Winner of the Costa Poetry Award • Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize “These lyrics…illustrate poetry’s unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the wor……続きを見る

Shakespeare’s Missing Plays? This volume, number 6 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two plays, possibly created by William Shakespeare: “**Sir Thomas More**” and “**The Two……続きを見る

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and her friends across the country offer poems in praise of the magic of reading. In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy h……続きを見る

This new collection by Jennifer Christie Temple is an eclectic mix of poems. Sometimes serious and questioning, sometimes light-hearted and playful, these poems have something for every mood. This i……続きを見る

The world's changin', we don't have to just 'make do' anymore. There's stuff out there, there's life, there's … people and experiencin' somethin' meaningful. California, 'Arry, Woodstock, out on the……続きを見る

Shakespeare: Death and Demons This slim volume, number 8 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two complete works: “Elizabethan Demonology,“ by Thomas Alfred Spalding “Shakespea……続きを見る

Shakespeare's Gardens and Stones This slim volume, number 10  in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two complete works:  “The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare,” by Hen……続きを見る

A Shakespeare Miscellany This volume, number 9 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, provides some supporting information not readily available and not included in any of the the other v……続きを見る

Katie Hartsock’s Bed of Impatiens is astir in myths and mythmaking in the backdrop of the grit, waters, scenes and atmospheres of the Midwest. While its tributes to Saint Augustine’s Confessions are……続きを見る

Profile I live in a forest on an island in Greece I have nothing worth anything in this tent that I live in I get fed by people whom I call friends this is a life I never intended it just happened t……続きを見る

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renow……続きを見る

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renow……続きを見る

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renow……続きを見る

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with s……続きを見る

Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city and have been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has been publi……続きを見る

I told her that it wouldn't be appropriate for us to meet in person. She asked me why not. I told her the truth. Because I was extremely attracted to her and didn't want to court the destruction of ……続きを見る

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan and to the works they jointly created. The two men collaborat……続きを見る

Shakespearean tragedy is the classification of drama written by William Shakespeare which has a noble protagonist, who is flawed in some way, placed in a stressful heightened situation and ends with……続きを見る

Nothing like being attacked by a slug then held captive by a dragon to put you off your jelly and ice-cream. Ethan, William and Fiona are about as different as three almost-teens can be. The only th……続きを見る

Isobel Gowdie has been unfairly labelled "The Witch Queen of Scotland," largely due to her confessions to witchcraft being a matter of historical record. Michael McGrinder tells Isobel's story on a ……続きを見る

The most complete collection of Mary Tighe’s poetry published to date. Mary Blachford Tighe (1772–1810) was a crucial force in shaping British Romanticism. Her influential six-canto epic, Psyche, or……続きを見る