My Top 5 Favourite Modern Poets
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Best Kept Secret (The Clifton Chronicles)
- ASIN: 1250055563
- ISBN: 1250055563
- Brand: St Martin s Griffin
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Jeffrey Archer's mesmerizing saga of the Clifton and Barrington families continues...1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promo... [Read More]
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Plays on the Passions (Essential Poets (Guernica))
- ASIN: 1551111853
- ISBN: 9781551111858
- Brand: Brand: Broadview Press Ltd
- Manufacturer: Broadview Press
Baillie’s eminently readable dramas stand at the crossroads of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Romanticism, and compellingly engage with questions of women’s rights. Her exploration of the passions, first published in 1798, is here reissued with a wealth of contextual materials including “The Introductory Discourse,” Baillie’s own b... [Read More]
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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose: Second Edition
- ASIN: 0300119941
- ISBN: 0300119941
- Brand: Rainey, Lawrence S. (EDT)
- Manufacturer: Yale University Press
The definitive edition of the most influential poem of the twentieth century One of the twentieth century’s most powerful—and controversial—works, The Waste Land waspublished in the desolate wake of the First World War. This definitive edition of T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece presents a new and authoritative version of the poem, along with all ... [Read More]
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Love Her Wild: Poems
- ASIN: B01MRM50IY
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
The first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation AtticusLove Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, who has captured the hearts and minds of well over 300k followers on his Instagram account, @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and Shay Mitchell. With honesty, poignancy, and romantic flare, Love ... [Read More]
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Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry
- ASIN: 0195104005
- ISBN: 0195104005
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry. Indeed, the very idea that a vital Christian poetry might arise within our tho... [Read More]
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An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art
- ASIN: 0472067257
- ISBN: 0472067257
- Brand: Brand: University of Michigan Press
- Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a poetic meter, stanza, or form, describe it, recount its history, and provide favorite examples. Th... [Read More]
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Rebecca
- ASIN: 0380778556
- ISBN: 0380778556
- Brand: Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame
- Manufacturer: Avon
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWith these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of... [Read More]
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The Best of Frank O'Connor (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
- ASIN: B005MHI0CQ
- Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
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One Lark, One Horse: Poems
- ASIN: 0374226598
- ISBN: 0374226598
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A new collection of poems by Michael Hofmann―his first in twenty yearsMichael Hofmann, renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators, is also regarded as among our most respected poets. Hofmann’s status―he is the author of “one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century" (The Times Literary Supplement)―is al... [Read More]
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101 Famous Poems
- UPC: 639785413967
- ASIN: 0071419306
- ISBN: 9780071419307
- Brand: McGraw-Hill Education
- Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education
Fully indexed by title, author, and first line, this much-loved collection, in print since 1916, is a wide-ranging collection of the best-known English language poets, from William Shakespeare Robert Frost, from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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Rumi: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
- ASIN: 0307263525
- ISBN: 9780307263520
- Brand: Everyman s Library
- Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and m... [Read More]
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Possession (Vintage International)
- ASIN: B007OLYPW2
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Atonement: A Novel
- ASIN: 038572179X
- ISBN: 9780385721790
- Brand: Anchor Books
- Manufacturer: Anchor Books
National Bestseller Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between he... [Read More]
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The Power of One: A Novel
- ASIN: 034541005X
- ISBN: 034541005X
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”–The New York Times“Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one’–can prevail.”–Cleve... [Read More]
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Regeneration (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
- ASIN: 0142180599
- ISBN: 0142180599
- Brand: Plume Books
- Manufacturer: Plume
“Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.”—The Boston GlobeThe first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels. In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war h... [Read More]
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The Unknown Shore
- ASIN: 039331538X
- ISBN: 039331538X
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel
- ASIN: B0140NXXJM
- Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys ... [Read More]
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100 Poems
- ASIN: 0374100292
- ISBN: 0374100292
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Selected poems from a Nobel laureateSeamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate... [Read More]
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
- ASIN: B000XU8DFG
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
- ASIN: 0374286493
- ISBN: 0374286493
- Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. “Your life at every instant up for― / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips,” writes Christoph... [Read More]
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