We British: The Poetry of a People

We British: The Poetry of a People PDF Author: Andrew Marr
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008130914
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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‘This book includes some of the greatest of our poetry. I hope that it adds up to a new way of thinking about who we have been, and who we are now.’

We British: The Poetry of a People

We British: The Poetry of a People PDF Author: Andrew Marr
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008130914
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Book Description
‘This book includes some of the greatest of our poetry. I hope that it adds up to a new way of thinking about who we have been, and who we are now.’

The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry

The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry PDF Author: Blake Morrison
Publisher: Penguin Uk
ISBN: 9780140585520
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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We Are Britain!

We Are Britain! PDF Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781845071431
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A new poetry collection from renowned performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah, celebrating the diversity of British society. A unique portrait of British children, Benjamin has written 12 poems, each one about a child in his or her home environment. The children are from a range of backgrounds and cultures and the book challenges traditional perceptions of the way children live. It shows that despite their differences, children have many similar preoccupations whatever their cultural background. We Are Britain springs from the rich interaction between many peoples which characterises modern Britain. Illustrated with Prodeepta Das' vibrant photographs, this is a fascinating and fun collection which children will love.

Call Us What We Carry

Call Us What We Carry PDF Author: Amanda Gorman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593465083
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller, now available in paperback and with bonus content! This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Now in paperback and featuring an interview with the author and a discussion guide, Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.

We Brits

We Brits PDF Author: John Agard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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John Agard has been subverting British poetry for the past 30 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In "We Brits", the Guyanese-born word magician gives an outsider's inside view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. Some explore hidden connections in British history, while others are wildly inventive forays into comic territory: Shakespeare addresses the tabloids, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed arrive in Britain at Gatwick, Heathrow and Dover, and all the foreign words flee the English dictionary.

Fossil Poetry

Fossil Poetry PDF Author: Chris Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192557955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry. Fossil Poetry takes its title from a famous passage on 'early' language in the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and uses the metaphor of the fossil to contextualize poetic Anglo-Saxonism within the developments that had been taking place in the fields of geology, palaeontology, and the evolutionary life sciences since James Hutton's apprehension of 'deep time' in his 1788 Theory of the Earth. Fossil Poetry argues that two, roughly consecutive phases of poetic Anglo-Saxonism took place over the course of the nineteenth century: firstly, a phase of 'constant roots' whereby Anglo-Saxon is constructed to resemble, and so to legitimize a tradition of English Romanticism conceived as essential and unchanging; secondly, a phase in which the strangeness of many of the 'extinct' philological forms of early English is acknowledged, and becomes concurrent with a desire to recover and recuperate the fossils of Anglo-Saxon within contemporary English poetry. The volume advances new readings of work by a variety of poets including Walter Scott, Henry Longfellow, William Wordsworth, William Barnes, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Morris, Alfred Tennyson, and Gerard Hopkins.

The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945

The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945 PDF Author: Simon Armitage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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A collection of poetry written in the second half of the century. Includes English, Irish, Welsh and Scots poets, as well as other nationalities living here and writing in English.

World War One British Poets

World War One British Poets PDF Author: Candace Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048611323X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others. /div

Modern British Poetry

Modern British Poetry PDF Author: Louis Untermeyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Seventeenth-century British Poetry, 1603-1660

Seventeenth-century British Poetry, 1603-1660 PDF Author: John Peter Rumrich
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393979985
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 999

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Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition.