The Poets Laureate of England

The Poets Laureate of England PDF Author: William Forbes Gray
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Category : Poets laureate
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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The Poets Laureate of England

The Poets Laureate of England PDF Author: Walter Hamilton
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Category : Poets laureate
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The Poets Laureate of England

The Poets Laureate of England PDF Author: William Forbes Gray
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Category : Poets laureate
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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The Niagara River

The Niagara River PDF Author: Kay Ryan
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802197515
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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A mesmerizing collection from the US Poet Laureate whose work is “as intense and elliptical as [Emily] Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as [Robert] Frost” (J. D. McClatchy, American Poet). In granting the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize to Kay Ryan, Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman wrote that “[she] can take any subject and make it her own. Her poems—which combine extreme concision and formal expertise with broad subjects and deep feeling—could never be mistaken for anyone else’s. Her work has the kind of singularity and sustained integrity that are very, very rare.” Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Kay Ryan’s poems are “Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder.” The Niagara River is full of such hidden gems. Bafflingly effective, the poems in this collection seem too brief and blithe to pack so much wallop. Their singular music makes it clear why her poetry has been featured everywhere from the Sunday funnies to New York subways to plaques at the zoo to the pages of The New Yorker and The Paris Review (Salon). “Empathic and wryly unforgiving of the human condition, the poems [in The Niagara River] are equal parts pith and punch. The effect is bracing.” —Publishers Weekly

The World's Wife

The World's Wife PDF Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 057119995X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

Zoom!

Zoom! PDF Author: Simon Armitage
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Creates a muscular but elegant language of the author's own slangy, youthful, up to the minuet jargon and vernacular of his native Northern England. He combines this with an easily worn erudition, plenty of nouns and the benefit of blinkered experience.

The Unaccompanied

The Unaccompanied PDF Author: Simon Armitage
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524732435
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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From the prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom comes a powerful collection of poetry that gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite "like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, / nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones." In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its "Songs about mills and mines and a great war, / lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, / songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films"—in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire PDF Author: John Flood
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110912740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2800

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Petrarch’s revival of the ancient practice of laureation in 1341 led to the laurel being conferred on poets throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Within the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I conferred the title of Imperial Poet Laureate especially frequently, and later it was bestowed with unbridled liberality by Counts Palatine and university rectors too. This handbook identifies more than 1300 poets laureated within the Empire and adjacent territories between 1355 and 1804, giving (wherever possible) a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. The introduction and various indexes provide a detailed account of a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon and illuminate literary networks in the Early Modern period. A supplementary Volume 5 of Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook will be published in June 2019.

An Exhibition of Selected Works of the Poets Laureate of England

An Exhibition of Selected Works of the Poets Laureate of England PDF Author: Grolier Club
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Contains an introduction, chronological table of the Laureates, and 107 numbers, annotated. Nos. 85-87 are "Authorities on the Poets Laureate", and Nos. 88-107 are portraits.

Stanza Stones

Stanza Stones PDF Author: Simon Armitage
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ISBN: 9781907587306
Category : Pennine Way (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This title presents a record of the Cultural Olympiad sponsored project headed by Simon Armitage to carve specially commissioned poems into rocks in the landscape surrounding the Pennine Way. The book is filled with pictures accompanying the poems and accounts of the project.

The Laureates of England, from Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson

The Laureates of England, from Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson PDF Author: Kenyon West
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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