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'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...

This was the collection with which Durcan broke through to the huge and appreciative audience he enjoys today. In the first part are poems of great satirical comedy and also of great passion and indignation, and in the second part, poems about the break-up of a marriage so intense they would hurt...

Better Than God sees Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or writing of memory, mortality, Renaissance...

Satirist, philosopher, elegist, aphorist, cultural historian – Peter Porter is perhaps too singular a talent to be described as ‘representative’ of the age: an Australian whose easy familiarity with the breadth of European culture puts most Europeans to shame, he has long held the reputation...

“The life we know can usually be explained only in winter, when it looks like a footprint on the surface and the lake is frozen over. There are times, though, when the ice is thinner in some spots than elsewhere. And suddenly we realize that truth lies on the bottom.” “Plays” contains...

This book contains a biographical and critical study of Keats written by Edward Thomas. It was originally published in 1916 and is here being republished with a new introductory biography on the author. Thomas took great influence from Keats and here the reader can read between the lines and see how Thomas created his own style and purpose within his own poetry.

As a person who was struggling to realize the path that he wanted to choose for his life, the writer saw a little light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, unable to figure out a way to reach there, he goes through an emotional and psychological turmoil that unravels so many of life's mysteries as he confronts...

There are, in the England of to-day, two schools of dramatic criticism, whose divergence of opinion is clearly marked. They are called “New Critics” and “Old Critics,” though accidents of date or age are hardly at all accountable for their antagonisms; it is possible that during the next few...

Regarded as Ireland's national bard, Thomas Moore was a poet, satirist, composer, and political propagandist, as well as a close friend of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents...

Lucius Tarquinius (surnommé le Superbe, à cause de son orgueil excessif), après avoir été cause du meurtre cruel de son beau-père Servius Tullius, et s'être emparé du trône, contre les lois et les coutumes de Rome, sans demander ni attendre les suffrages du peuple, alla mettre le siége devant...

'...But you dont; cause your world; You know itll come crashing down; all the way to the ground...' - Control '...Dont look back and when you shine, You can say to them, this life is mine...' - This Life is Yours '...Prove them wrong, Show them your heart song, Metaphorically speaking, that is, Reach the stars, by being who you are...' - Reach the Stars

An electronic edition of William Shakespeare's sonnets complete and unabridged. http://www.williamralphpress.com/

Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his...

Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets. Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement’s six most famous poets—William Wordsworth,...