Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-poem-of-killing-of-meghnnad-5-114289.html Meghn d instantly seized the divine sword but he could not lift it. He pulled at the bow It remained in Lakshman s hand. He angrily grasped the shield, but his efforts were useless ... First published in Bengali in 1861, The Poem of the Killing of Meghn d (Meghn dbadh k bya) by Michael Madhusudan Dutt is an epic in blank verse that has Indrajit (Meghn d), R van s warrior son who is slain by Lakshman in the Ramayana, as its protagonist. But the manner in which Meghn d is killed by Lakshman in a temple, where he has come to carry out a puja to Agni and has no means of defending himself is a departure from the Kshatriya warrior-code. This is the most subversive and original feature of Madhusudan s epic, and a daring way of turning Meghn d into a tragic hero. Something of an Indian equivalent to Milton s Paradise Lost, this magnificent work is an expression of Madhusudan s mind, of the Bengal Renaissance, and even of the wider Indian modernity that has emerged from that era. Imbued with irrepressible enthusiasm, youthful exuberance and rebellious flamboyance, Madhusudan s voice was compellingly new and inventive. This lyrical and vigorous translation by William Radice is accompanied by an extensive introduction, detailed footnotes and a comprehensive survey of Madhusudan s use of Indian and Western sources.

Author: MICHAEL MADHUSUDAN DUTT  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tonight-the-savage-5-114018.html This is a collection of love poems by two outstanding poets: Kamala Das and Pritish Nandy. Das is no longer alive but her reputation and following continue to grow.Pritish Nandy, with an imagery, power and immediacy that compliment hers, provides an apt accompaniment in this collection that was first published in 1979 and is now being reissued with stunning drawings by iconic artist Manu Parekh.

Author: Nandy Pritish and Das Kamala  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-5-102029.html Selected Poems

Author: Kipling, Rudyard  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poetry-5-102030.html Selected Poetry

Author: Dryden, John  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poetry-5-102031.html Selected Poetry

Author: Burns, R  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poetry-5-102032.html John Keats survives today as the archetypal Romantic genius who died tragically early. The rapid development of Keats's poetic skills is powerfully displayed in this selection, which includes his first major poem, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, as well as Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, and The Fall of Hyperion. Throughout, Keats's preoccupying themes of love, art, sorrow, the natural world, and the nature of the imagination magnificently emerge. In his superb Introduction, John Barnard discusses the focus of the anthology, which emphasizes Keats's place as a secondgeneration Romantic.

Author: Keats, John  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poetry-5-102033.html This selection of poetry includes alternative texts, for example both versions of the Dejection ode, and extracts from Coleridge's verse plays, translations and prefaces.

Author: Coledridge, Samuel Taylor  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poetry-5-102034.html A selection of Browning's poetry containing complete poems including examples from the early Dramatic Lyrics and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Men and Women, Dramatis Personae and from later less familiar works.

Author: Browning, Robert  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-stories-5-102035.html A collection of stories of the author whose stories whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society.

Author: Forster, E M  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/canterbury-tales-the-a-selection-5-110423.html The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales contains the most vivid and familiar passages from medieval English literature. Chaucer's pilgrims form a complete crosssection of the society of his day from the Monk and Merchant, the Doctor and Lawyer, through to the outrageous Miller and the corrupt Summoner. This illustrated edition of the Prologue features miniatures taken from the Ellesmere manuscript, and closely adheres to the authentic text of Chaucer. End notes provide all the information necessary for a complete understanding of the work. This unique book with its eyecatching and colourful design, celebrates one of the most significant periods in English history.

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/collected-poems-5-110424.html Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection charts his passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet's winning wit, accessibility and abiding readability.

Author: Roger, McGough  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/decadent-poetry-from-wilde-to-naidu-5-110425.html A definitive collection of poems that express the languid eroticism and aesthetic rebellion of the late Victorian age Toward the end of the nineteenth century, formerly straightlaced English verse began loosening its stays. The English decadents submerged themselves in the pleasures of artifice and turned a fascinated eye on the intertwining of decay and desire. Among the poets in this intoxicating collection are Oscar Wilde on tainted love and the torments of the human spirit, Arthur Symons on the stupor of absinthe, Rosamond Marriott Watson on disenchantment and memory, W. B. Yeats on waning passion and faded beauty, and Lord Alfred Douglas on shame and secret love. Decadent Poetry opens a window onto an exhilarating moment in English literature.

Author: Rodensky, Lisa (Editor)  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/diary-of-samuel-pepys-a-selection-5-110426.html The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London. This book offers an eyewitness account along with lively descriptions of the author's socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theatergoing & musicmaking.

Author: Pepys, Samuel  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/i-like-this-poem-5-110427.html Containing poems from William Wordsworth and Christina Rosetti to Roald Dahl and Michael Rosen, this work presents poems that were chosen by a child for other children. It features Highwaymen and naughty children, sharks and baboons, the Snitterjipe and the Jabberwocky.

Author: Webb, K  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/islamic-mystical-poetry-sufi-verse-fro-5-110428.html Includes poems that represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing and are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that develop many of the central ideas of Sufism the Lover, the Beloved, the Wine, and the Tavern.

Author: Various Authors & Jamal (editor)  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lyrical-ballads-with-a-few-other-poems-5-110429.html Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern readers to recapture the bookas original impact. In these poemsaincluding Wordsworthas aLines written a few miles above Tintern Abbeya and Coleridgeas aThe Rime of the Ancyent Marinereaathe two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.

Author: Wordsworth, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/metaphysical-poetry-5-110430.html Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry seeks to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivaled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This collection presents poems from this era that includes poems and elegies of lament by figures as Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Vaughan.

Author: Ricks, Christopher (Editor)  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nature-of-things-the-5-110431.html The Epicureans of ancient Rome discarded the ideas of life after death and of an interventionist God in favor of the tactile pleasures of nature. In The Nature of Things, Lucretius celebrates with wit and sharp perception the extraordinary breadth of the Epicurean belief system, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.

Author: Carus, Titus Lucretius  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/new-collected-poems-19312001-5-110432.html New and Collected Poems 1931 2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name.

Author: Milosz, Czeslaw  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/penguin-book-of-scottish-verse-5-110433.html An anthology that offers a view over the history of Scottish history, extending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th. This volume also features poetry in Gaelic, Latin and other languages. Mingling Highland and Lowland, the religious and the profane, poems by kings and crofters, it serves as a guide to the poetry of Scotland.

Author: Imish, Mick  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/penguin-s-poems-for-love-penguin-hardb-5-110434.html Presents some of the greatest love poetry from around the world and through the ages, ranging from W H Auden to William Shakespeare, John Donne to Emily Dickinson, and Robert Browning to Roger McGough.

Author: Barber, Laura (Editor)  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poems-5-110435.html This collection contains all of Catullusas extant work. Ranging from the tender, moving, and passionate to the vicious and even obscene, these are poems of astonishingly modern force and content. The lively translation by Peter Whigham recreates the dexterity, passion, and perception of the original.

Author: Whigham, Peter  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poems-letters-5-110436.html A new translation of poetry and letters from one of the most influential artists in history The iconic Renaissance painter and sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti was also a prolific and gifted poet. This groundbreaking collection presents verses, intense and passionate, that capture Michelangelo's eroticism and spirituality, alongside letters that provide fascinating insight into his family relations and daytoday life as a working artist. The result is a revealing portrait of a towering figure of the Renaissance.

Author: Michelangelo  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-modern-children-s-verse-5-110437.html Offers a collection of modern children's poetry. There are poems for every kind mood. Discover children's poetry from the greats of the poetry world including, Allan Ahlberg, WH Auden, Charles Causley, Roald Dahl, TS Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ted Hughes, and more.

Author: Patten, Brian  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-5-110438.html A selection of the author's best work chosen by the author himself. It includes such poems as Sleep Now.

Author: Patten, Brian  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-donne-5-110439.html One of Englandas preeminent poets, John Donneas poems are among the most passionate, profound, and spiritual in the English language. This rich representation reflects the wide diversity of his poetry. From such witty items as aThe Flea, a which transforms the image of a louse into something marvelous, to the intimate and intense Holy Sonnets, Donne breathed new vigor into poetry by drawing lucid and often startling metaphors from the world in which he lived.

Author: Donne, John  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selections-from-the-carmina-burana-5-110440.html A selection from the 13th century collection of secular Latin poems. Some are serious but the majority are light, including many love poems.

Author: Parlett, David (Translator)  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/100-best-poems-for-children-5-110441.html This is a wonderful collection of contemporary and classic poems chosen by children from schools around the UK. Roger McGough made the final selection and wrote the introduction.

Author: Mcgough, Roger  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bad-bad-cats-5-110442.html Includes a series of poems about the exploits of some gangster cats and verse based on Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens.

Author: Mcgough, R  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bee-s-knees-5-110443.html This is a brilliant collection of brandnew poems from 'the patron saint of poetry'. Longer, narrative poems sit comfortably with Roger McGough's sharper observations and insightful words in this collection, perfectly illustrated in blackandwhite line by Helen Stephens.

Author: Mcgough, Roger  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/blazing-fruit-5-110444.html McGough's first book of poems was published just over 20 years ago, and this volume represents his own selection of his best work. His other titles include Melting Into the Foreground, Sky in the Pie and Summer with Monika.

Author: Mcgough, R  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/book-of-longing-5-110445.html An illustrated book of poetry.

Author: Cohen, Leonard  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/british-poetry-since-1945-5-110446.html This revised edition contains new sections which recognize the increased influence of the Northern Irish and university poets, and, throughout, the commentaries render each poet Larkin, Hughes, Porter, Heaney, Fenton, Raine, among others immediately accessible. From the postwar movement to the postexpressionist movement, the poetic terrain is mapped out since the World War II.

Author: Smith, Lucie  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cat-among-the-pigeons-5-110447.html A collection of poems involving those favourite antihero Dave Dirt, the afternoon of a prawn and the mysterious tale of Zoe's earrings.

Author: Wright, K  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/collected-poems-5-110448.html Presents the trials and tribulations of childhood, embracing school, quarrels, friendships, football and storytelling.

Author: Ahlberg, Allan  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/collected-poems-5-110449.html The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. Lucid, various, direct and engaging, Kavanagh's poems have a unique place in the canon. This new edition is the culmination of many years of work by Antoinette Quinn in creating authoritative texts for Kavanagh's work from his early works such as Inniskeen Road July Evening' to such major pieces as The Great Hunger'.

Author: Kavanagh, Patrick  Publisher: ALLEN LANE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/collected-poems-5-110450.html A collection of poems which depict a man who was deeply pessimistic and obsessed with death, and, on the other hand, illustrate a man who was also very much concerned with love, youth, life and the fleetingness of the these concepts.

Author: Housman, A E  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/collected-poems-5-110451.html Collected Poems

Author: Harrison, Tony  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/complete-poems-5-110452.html Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwellas ward, satirist, and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most significant poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity, and includes lyrical love poetry, religious works, and biting satire. From the passionately erotic aTo His Coy Mistressa to the astutely political Cromwellian poems and the profoundly spiritual aOn a Drop of Dew, a in which he considers the nature of the soul, these works are masterpieces of clarity and metaphysical imagery.

Author: Marvell, Andrew  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/contemporary-irish-poetry-penguin-book-o-5-110453.html An anthology of the work of 30 contemporary Irish poets beginning with poets of the 1950s generation. The selection includes poetry from the north of Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.

Author: Fallon, P & Mahon, D  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/day-our-teacher-went-batty-5-110454.html A collection of poems based on familiar themes.

Author: Phinn, Gervase  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/endpoint-other-poems-5-110455.html A collection of poems.

Author: Updike, John  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/everyday-eclipses-5-110456.html Whether shamelessly offering advice to an imaginary Bob Dylan (or Jimi Hendrix), or dicing with death in the Alps, these poems are recognizeably by Roger McGough. They offer jokes that are something more, an underlying heartache and the sense of time slipping away.

Author: Mcgough, Roger  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/family-phantoms-5-110457.html If you fancy a pint with a vampire or a moonlit walk with a werewolf, look no further. From aliens to zombies, yetis to the amazing amphisbaena, famous monsters to mythical beasts, every kind of creature lives in Gervase Phinn's magical menagerie. Be very, very afraid!

Author: Phinn, Gervase  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/friendly-matches-5-110458.html A collection of football poems covering many aspects of the game. It is written in a variety of verse forms sonnets, rhyming couplets, and more.

Author: Ahlberg, Allan  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/funky-chickens-5-110459.html A collection of poems for children touching on things from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. It also contains poems on racism, pollution and the murder of a cat.

Author: Zephaniah, Benjamin  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/good-enough-to-eat-5-110460.html A collection of thoughtprovoking, fresh and funny poems from Roger McGough. It covers a wide range of topics from dreams to food to a tour around a bedroom.

Author: Mcgough, Roger  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/heard-it-in-the-playground-5-110461.html This illustrated collection of amusing poems and songs celebrating primary school life won the Signal Poetry Award in 1990. Meet Billy McBone and the Mad Professor's Daughter, be amazed by the Longest Kiss Contest, shed a tear for the Boy Without a Name and if you're a stressed teacher sing the Mrs Butler Blues.

Author: Ahlberg, Allan  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/how-to-avoid-kissing-your-parents-in-pub-5-110462.html A collection of poems focussed on a family theme; a mix of humour and seriousness as it covers various aspects of family life from babyhood to old age.

Author: Macrae, L  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/imaginary-menagerie-5-110463.html Well, you've probably never seen a yak in a yashmak, a canary gone hairy or a catapillow either. Roger McGough's highly inventive Imaginary Menagerie is the perfect place to find these and lots more amazing creatures, from a brushbaby living under the stairs to a nightingale spending a night in jail. You'll never again come across a collection like it!

Author: Mcgough, Roger  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/it-takes-one-to-know-one-5-110464.html This is a collection of poems based around the familiar themes of school and family, ranging from such topics as embarrassing and annoying parents, choosing a pet and running away from home, to reading around the class, facing the school inspector, and surviving a school trip. Some are funny, some are poignant, all are thoughtprovoking.

Author: Phinn, Gervase  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/juggling-with-gerbils-5-110465.html This is a great new collection of poetry, wideranging in both form and subject matter. Full of Brian Patten's wonderful wit and moments of beauty as in Geraniums In The Snow Like children snuggling down under a white duvet Slowly the red geraniums Vanish under the snow. It is brilliantly complemented by Chris Riddell's illustrations.

Author: Patten, Brian  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/laughter-is-an-egg-5-110466.html Laughter is an egg with a crickcrack face that can hide in the heart of the human race. This collection of poems, riddles, jokes and ballads include weeyourself laughs.

Author: Agard, John  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/life-in-verse-5-110467.html An anthology that includes poetry from Yeats, Tennyson, Blake, Larkin, E E Cummings, Don Paterson, Roald Dahl, Benjamin Zephaniah and many more. It features the poems that explore human relationships.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/little-larger-than-the-entire-universe--5-110468.html The poetry of athe greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of a (Los Angeles Times) Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under aheteronymsaafully fleshed alter egos with startlingly different styles and points of view. Offering a unique sampling of all his most famous voices, this collection features poems that have never before been translated alongside many originally composed in English. In addition to such major works as aMaritime Ode of Camposa and his Goetheinspired Faust, written in blank verse, there are several stunning poems that have only come to light in the last five years. Selected and translated by leading Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, this is the finest introduction available to the breadth of Pessoaas genius.

Author: Pessoa, Fernando  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/love-poetry-5-110469.html Love Poetry

Author: Stallworthy, J  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/love-poetry-5-110470.html There are almost as many definitions and different sorts of love as there are poets. Edited on the assumption that any poem which speaks of one human's desire for another is a qualifying factor, The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry is a rich and diverse anthology which ranges through time and fashion. Passion, urgency, simplicity, heartbreak and renunciation are all here in a volume that superbly represents 'man's changeless responses to the changeless changing seasons of his heart'.

Author: Stallworthy, J  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lymond-poetry-5-110471.html Dorothy Dunnett died in November 2001. She left behind this anthology, chosen by her from the hundreds of poems that she used in her series of novels known as The Lymond Chronicles. It contains an extensive collection of Renaissance poetry, featuring work by Thomas Wyatt and King James I, extracts from the Psalms and even an anonymous poem called Monologue of a Drunkard. As Dorothy herself writes, here in one volume is the poetry of love, of folkhumour and ballad, the songs of Persian poets and of the troubadours, translated where need be into English.

Author: Dunnett, D  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mcgough-r-5-110472.html The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, The Mersey Sound was conceived and first published in 1967. An anthology which features Roger McGough's work, alongside that of Brian Patten and Adrian Henri (The Liverpool Poets), it went on to sell over half a million copies and to become the bestselling poetry anthology of all time. Irreverent, sardonic, funny and sad, these are the poems that echo the mood of the sixties. A selection of the early work of three Liverpool poets who brought poetry down from the dusty shelf and onto the street.

Author: Henri, A  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mersey-sound-the-5-110473.html An attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form. This anthology features Roger McGough's work, alongside that of Brian Patten and Adrian Henri.

Author: Henri, Adrian  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mighty-slide-5-110474.html Features stories of a mighty slide, a man who fought crocodiles, a girl who doubled, a couple of baby skinners and a thing that lived under a school.

Author: Ahlberg, Allan  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/new-bearings-in-english-poetry-5-110475.html New Bearings In English Poetry

Author: Leavis, F R  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/new-penguin-book-of-scottish-verse-5-110476.html This volume is the first anthology to offer a view over the entire history of Scottish poetry, extending from the sixth to the end of the 20th century, and representing each of its stylistic currents with clarity and verve. Readers will find here the great cornerstones of a poetic tradition which predates the Scottish nation. There are substantial selections from the medieval makers Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, and a generous representation of the remarkable folk literature known as the Border Ballads. The work of acknowledged masters such as Robert Burns and Robert Louis Stevenson, and, in the 20th century, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean and Norman MacCaig, is augmented by that of neglected and unknown writers. The book concludes with selections from the best of Scotland's contemporary poets, including Douglas Dunn, Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson. Throughout this volume, poetry in Gaelic, Latin and other languages is given in parallel text; poems in Scots are fully glossed. This comprehensive anthology mingling Highland and Lowland, the religious and the profane, poems by kings and crofters should be the guide to the whole poetry of Scotland.

Author: Crawford & Iml  Publisher: ALLEN LANE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/new-puffin-book-of-funny-verse-5-110477.html A collection of funny verse and poems. There are tales of scrapes at school, some ridiculous animals and even stranger relatives to meet, plus plenty of unbelievable accidents and silly adventures. The collection contains poems from some of the best contemporary writers.

Author: Wright, Kit (Ed)  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/orchards-of-syon-5-110478.html The fourth book of poems by Geoffrey Hill to appear since 1996, this is the final installment of the remarkable series that began with Canaan and continued with The Triumph of Love and Speech Speech Read together, these four books each a distinct and complete aesthetic achievement form a single great poem, a kind of highmodernist Divine Comedy that is at once a prophetic judgment on man's fallen state and a sad and angry consolation. The Orchards of Syon is Hill's Paradiso, a Dantean eclogue in which the natural world, and the dreamstate of our earthly existence, offer glimpses into Paradise. Having cut us to the quick in his previous books, Hill now heals us with the balm of his own language, and in doing so remakes the devotional poem for our times.

Author: Hill, Geoffrey  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paradiso-5-110479.html The second part and the radiant climax to Dante's aweinspiring epic, in a definitive new translation Having plunged to the utmost depths of Hell and climbed Mount Purgatory in the first two parts of The Divine Comedy, Dante now ascends to Heaven, guided by his beloved Beatrice, to continue his search for God. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise, he grows ever closer to experiencing divine love in the overwhelming presence of the deity. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment, Dante exercised all of his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his creation of one of the greatest of all Christian allegories.

Author: Kirkpatrick, Robin (Editor)  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/penguin-book-of-american-verse-the-5-110480.html An anthology of American poetry that opens in the colonial seventeenth century and closes in the twentieth, emphasizing the extraordinary, vital period that followed the 1950s. It ranges from Anne Bradstreet to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from William Carlos Williams to Walt Whitman and Ai.

Author: Moore, G  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/penguin-book-of-modern-african-poetry-5-110481.html A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa aPoetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, a writes Gerald Moore, ahas continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.a Now revised and expanded, this comprehensive anthology features the work of ninetynine poets from twenty seven countries; thirtyone of the poets appear here for the first time. War songs, satires, and political protests jostle with poems about love, nature, and the surprises of life, offering a rich and wideranging body of creative work.

Author: Moore, Gerald & Beier, Ulli (Editor)  Publisher: PENG TCC CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/pillow-talk-5-110482.html Wouldn't it be funny if you didn't have a nose? This collection asks questions such as these. It tells you when to cut your fingernails, how to have a real pillow fight and what happens when a burp escapes.

Author: Mcgough, Roger  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/please-mrs-butler-5-110483.html A collection of poems about school. It features poems about typical classroom events such as the candid revelations in a pupil's newsbook, the problem of copycats, bickering, making up, swaps, picking teams, and forming gangs. It also features line drawings.

Author: Ahlberg, Allan  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poems-readings-for-births-christenin-5-110484.html This third anthology in Julia Watson's series of poems and readings for both secular and religious ceremonies fills a real gap in the market.

Author: Watson, Julia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poems-readings-for-funerals-5-110485.html As more and more secular funerals are taking place, there is a need for appropriate texts. This collection offers 70 poems and prose extracts suitable for reading at funerals and celebrations of a life. It includes selections that range from Shakespeare to Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation, and from Christina Rossetti to St Francis of Assissi.

Author: Watson, J  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poems-readings-for-weddings-5-110486.html As reports suggest, many fewer weddings are taking place in church. For those that are not having the traditional wedding service, it can be a problem finding suitable material to be read at a civil ceremony. This book offers 70 poems and readings which celebrate love and union and offer the prospect of a lifetime's shared happiness.

Author: Watson, Julia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poems-of-john-keats-penguin-classics-5-110487.html John Keats (17951821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had unwittingly fulfilled his wish that he should 'be among the English poets after my death'. This work presents a selection of Keats' poetry.

Author: Keats, John  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poems-of-john-milton-5-110488.html John Milton was a writer of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. This book is a selection of his poems, edited and introduced by Claire Tomalin.

Author: Milton, John  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poems-of-thomas-hardy-the-5-110489.html Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet. This work is a selection of Hardy's love poems.

Author: Hardy, Thomas & Tomalin, Claire(Editor)  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poetry-jumpup-5-110490.html Presents children's poetry filled with life, music and rhythm that brings together the voices of black writers from Britain, Africa, America, Asia and the Caribbean. Including work from Benjamin Zephaniah, Maya Angelou and Zinziswa Mandela, this anthology is compiled by black British writers.

Author: Nichols, G  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-2th-century-children-s-ve-5-110491.html A collection of verse for children by a wide range of the century's writers, from Michael Rosen to James Reeves and from Russell Hoban to Thomas Hardy. The editor compiled Gargling With Jenny and Michael Foreman won the Kate Greenaway medal 1991, for War Boy.

Author: Patten, Brian  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-amazing-animal-poems-5-110492.html Split into sectionsfish and sealife; wildlife and jungle; farmyard, insects and mythical. This collection includes shaped poems, concrete poems, traditional and contemporary, and is illustrated by a host of talented artists.

Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-fantastic-first-poems-5-110493.html Includes poems that span time, from Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter de la Mare to Roger McGough and Michael Rosen. This title covers such themes as mealtimes, playtime, animals, family and bedtime. It is suitable for youngreaders.

Author: Crebbin, J  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-fantastic-first-poems-5-110494.html This treasury is a fantastic introduction to new and traditional poetry for children under seven. Brilliantly illustrated by several different illustrators, it includes poems about mealtimes, playtime, animals, family, bedtime and lots more.

Author: Grebbin, June  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-magic-verse-5-110495.html This collection of verse for children includes poems describing elves, changelings, wizards, ghosts, mermaids, incantations and curses. The editor has also included poems which seem to reflect the magic of the natural world and everyday life.

Author: Causley, Charles  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-nonsense-verse-5-110496.html Quentin Blake is one of the best loved of children's illustrators. This book selects and illustrates his favourite comic verse. His unique style of drawing brings a fresh perspective to each poem. It combines classic writers such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear with more contemporary talents such as Roger McGough, Margaret Mahy and Russell Hoban.

Author: Blake, Quentin  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-nursery-rhymes-5-110497.html This collection of nursery rhymes are a gathering from the memories of grandmothers and the byways of folk literature. As well as containing the familiar jingles, it introduces a number of traditional rhymes which have previously been known only locally or in individual families.

Author: Opie, Iona & Pe  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-twentiethcentury-verse-5-110498.html A gift edition of The Puffin Book of TwentiethCentury Verse for children featuring over 100 poets from the last 100 years.

Author: Patten, Brian  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-utterly-brilliant-poetry-5-110499.html Features poems by Roger McGough, Michael Rosen, Charles Causley, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jackie Kay, Spike Milligan, John Agard, Brian Patten, Allan Ahlberg and Kit Wright.

Author: Patten, Brian  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puffin-book-of-verse-5-110500.html The anthology is divided into ten sections 1. the seasons 2. of birds and beasts 3. ballads and stories 4. homely things 5. holiday mood 6. magic and romance 7. night 8. sweet content 9. Christmas 10. praise and thanksgiving

Author: Graham, Eleanor  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/quick-let-s-get-out-of-here-5-110501.html Shreddies in my hair. I looked at Eddie. Eddie's looking at me. Big grin on his face. I knew he had done it. Last week he put pepper in the raisins. The yucky things your borther does, the annoying things your parents say, the funny things you feel. The author knows all about you.

Author: Rosen, M. & Bla  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam-illustrated-ed-5-110502.html Illustrated in colour with examples of Persian miniature painting, this title contains an introduction and several appendices, including an essay on Persian painting.

Author: Khayyam, Omar  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/scanning-the-century-5-110503.html The 20th century has been one of great turbulence, profound shifts in sensibility, and enormous changes in lifestyle. As this anthology brilliantly demonstrates, the poetry of the last hundred years has been both a mirror and a gloss to the age. Drawing on poetry written in English and in translation, Peter Forbes' aim has been to capture this century's flavor with something like the tang of newsreel and the zest of popular song. There are 39 sections, which run the gamut of moods from Omens (Brodsky, Hardy, Kipling) to The Jazz Age (Mayakovsky, Eliot, Hughes), from The Holocaust (Auden, Rumens, Levi) to The Sixties (Dylan, Lennon, McCartney), from The Arts (Stevens, Prevert, Yevtushenko) to Love and Sex (Larkin, Adcock, Gunn). As ambitious, various, and energetic as its subject, Scanning the Century offers both history and poetry and poetry in one artful and illuminating volume. Peter Forbes is the editor of Poetry Review.

Author: Forbes, P  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/scenes-from-comus-5-110504.html SCENES FROM COMUS is the new sequence of poems from Britain's most original and ferocious modern prophet, Geoffrey Hill. In the words of Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Hill remains for me the supreme voice of the last few decades The recent work, telegraphic, angry and unconsoled, at once assertive and selfdispossessing, is extraordinary'

Author: Hill, Geoffrey  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/scottish-verse-5-110505.html The first anthology ever to present the entire history of Scottish poetry from the 6th century to the end of the 20th.

Author: Crawford, R & Imlah, M  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/secret-history-the-5-110506.html Portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and the general Belisarius as the pliable dupe of his scheming wife Antonina. This book depicts holy Byzantium as a hell of murder and misrule.

Author: Williamson, G. (Editor)  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-5-110507.html First published in three separate collections, the poems in this anthology span the first decade, as well as many changes of mood, in the work of Laurie Lee.

Author: Lee, L  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-5-110508.html Lawrence wrote nearly 1,000 poems during a short lifetime in which he was also astonishingly prolific in other spheres fiction, travel writing, essays, criticism, letters and plays. Lawrence was not simply a novelist who dabbled in other forms. His characteristic vision informed everything he wrote, especially his poetry. At three important phases of his life, it became the primary channel of his experience and creative energy the first year of his relationship with Frieda, the two years in Sicily, and the last year of his life. Bringing together the best of his poetry, this volume demonstrates that 'Lawrence is a great poet in every sense including the technical the form is the perfect incarnation of the content, the perfect vehicle for the liveliness of thought and feeling, the freshness, and depth of perception, the wit and wisdom he has to offer.'

Author: Lawernce, D H  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-5-110509.html The author's own selection of the best poems from her four published selections Standing Female Nude (1985), Selling Manhattan (1987), The Other Country (1990) and Mean Time (1993). Carol Ann Duffy is one of Britain's most outstanding young poets.

Author: Duffy, Carol Ann  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-5-110510.html Dealing with the densities of the poets expression, and the forces in his syntax and rhythms, this poetry aims to achieve a strength, memorability and precision beyond the abilities of any other poet writing in English.

Author: Hill, Geoffrey  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-5-110511.html Charts the unique literary talent of one of Britain's most influential poets and social critics. Ranging from protests against police brutality to eulogies for departed friends and celebrations of urban life, Linton Kwesi Johnson's use of Jamaican dialect to tackle British subjects contributed to a revolution in the notion of literary English.

Author: Johnson, Linton Kwesi  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poems-5-110512.html A sequence of prose poems extracted from the autobiographical triptych, Carrying the Elephant, This is Not My Nose and In the Colonie. It covers a terrain that includes, collating vivid and fragmentary memories from the author's leftwing Jewish upbringing, his teenage holiday at a socialist summer camp in France, and his London childhood.

Author: Rosen, Michael  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-poetry-5-110513.html Shelley's work has been criticized for its didacticism and undisciplined emotionalism. But essentially, he was a poet of ideas and in his search for truth and original human perfection, Shelley was inspired as much by the Greek poets and philosophers. Above all, his great gift was his lyricism and his verse comes as near to music as poetry can.

Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100