Author: Janet Adam Smith
Publisher: Quintessence Publishing (IL)
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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For children 8 to 14.

Author: Paul Muldoon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571195473
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or exotic, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and others perhaps more fanciful than real. A zoologist's delight.There is, too, a moral or philosophical purpose. As Paul Muldoon says in his introduction: 'We are most human in the presence of animals.' And it is just this sense of how our humanity is illuminated by the contemplation of bestial life that he has set out to celebrate. The results are wonderfully rich and thought-provoking.

Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571253814
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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First published in February 1936, just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth century. Since then three further editions by, in succession, Anne Ridler, Donald Hall and Peter Porter have been published. All took as their kernel the original selection by Michael Roberts. This "Faber Finds" reissue restores that pristine selection. More likely than not, the original idea was T. S. Eliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired one. Michael Roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within it. Yes, his purpose was tendentious. He excludes some poets he admires such as Edmund Blunden and Walter de la Mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic technique.' On the other hand, 'I have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and language . . .' From the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" Michael Roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aim. Philip Hobsbaum, in "The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry," says of "The Faber Book of Modern Verse," 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the 1930s.'

Author: Michael Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198312406
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry in themes : Landscapes - Sea - Animals - Children - People - War - Mystery - Reflections.

Author: Matthew Sweeney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571219056
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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This definitive anthology of poems for children is a helter-skelter of a ride, full of unexpected twists and turns, to which readers of any age will want to return, again and again. It contains poems by authors from many different backgrounds, cultures and geographies, classic and modern; but they share a quality that gives the book an imaginative integrity - a spirit of exploration, undertaken with humour and energy, where the boundaries are limitless.

Author: John Carey
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571300278
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The emphasis is on the scientists themselves and their own accounts of their breakthroughs and achievements. The classic science-writers are included - Darwin, T.H. Huxley and Jean Henri Fabre tracking insects through the Provencal countryside. So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives of the contemporary genre of popular science-writing which, John Carey argues, challenges modern poetry and fiction in its imaginative power.

Author: James Fenton
Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry
ISBN: 9780571218158
Category : Love poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'The New Faber Book of Love Poems' presents some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems produced in the English language from the Renaissance to the present.

Author: Fleur Adcock
Publisher: London ; Boston : Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571136933
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Gathers poems by Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Edna St Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, Stevie Smith, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Margaret Atwood

Author: Kenneth Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571174546
Category : War poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Kenneth Baker's new anthology surveys one of mankind's oldest activities, warfare, through the eyes of the poets who have participated in, witnessed, celebrated and deplored it. From Homer's epic treatment of the siege of Troy to Tony Harrison's moving commentary on the tragedy of Bosnia, the origins, spirit, conduct, technology, art and after-effects of war have inspired poets of all ages and tongues to some of their most powerful and memorable moments.

Author: Janet Adam Smith
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571048335
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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This collection appearing for the first time as a paperback, covers the whole field of English comic verse, including nonsense, parody and comic satire, but excluding what is usually called "light verse" of vers de societe.