Nation S Favourite Love Poems

Author : Daisy Goodwin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781446417584

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The Nation's Favourite: Love Poems by Daisy Goodwin Pdf

From the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, 'The Nation's Favourite Love Poems' will meet all your romantic requirements. In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes: love. As well as traditional lovers' favourites such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'How do I love thee?' and Shakespeare's 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' there are contemporary voices such as Adrian Mitchell, Wendy Cope and John Fuller, whose erudite yet salacious 'Valentine' would melt the most fridgid heart. There are even poems for those more melancholic moments, Hardy's haunting 'After a Journey', for example, and Larkin's poignant 'Love Songs in Age'. So, wherever you are in the tunnel of love, dip into this book of poetry and you will be reassured to discover that at one time or another a poet has been there before you.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60169163

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The Nation's Favourite Love Poems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521729819

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The Literature of Love by Mary Ward Pdf

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The Literature of Love is designed to introduce students to one of the central themes in literature. Focusing first on different types and aspects of love - physical, emotional, spiritual - it then offers a chronological coverage, aiming to illustrate ways in which attitudes to the representation of love in literature have evolved from Chaucer to the present time. Other sections of the book examine particular genres such as the love sonnet, the love letter and 'romantic' fiction; and the differing reception of this literature over time is also considered. The book includes extracts from a range of authors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0563382848

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Nation's Favourite Love Poems. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Griff Rhys Jones
Publisher : Random House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780563387824

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The Nation's Favourite Poems by Griff Rhys Jones Pdf

Contains the top 100 poems from a poll conducted by The Bookworm in 1995.

Author : Griff Rhys Jones
Publisher : Random House
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781448140497

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Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems by Griff Rhys Jones Pdf

This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky' to lesser known and forgotten gems such as Gelett Burgess's 'The Purple Cow', Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a poetic tour of witty, nonsensical and plain laugh-out-loud funny poems. The selection brings together poets from every age and every walk of life, from Shakespeare to Victoria Wood and from Keats to Benjamin Zephaniah. There is Roald Dahl's cunning variation on 'Little Red Riding Hood', Spike Milligan's brilliantly ridiculous 'On the Ning Nang Nong' as well as several entries from the ever-elusive Anon, including one delightfully succint 'Peas'. Remembered, half-remembered, cherished or written on a tea towel, here are some of the nation's favourite comic poems.

Author : Griff Rhys Jones
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781446417836

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The Nation's Favourite by Griff Rhys Jones Pdf

This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth of the nation's life during the 20th century is encapsulated here. Compiled and edited by Griff Rhys Jones as part of the successful The Nations Favourite Poems series, this book brings together the wealth of new and innovative poetry styles that flourished in the 20th Century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0563551844

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The Nation's Favourite Poems of Childhood by Anonim Pdf

This is a collection of poems, chosen through a poll in Radio Times, that reflect the emotion and memories of childhood. It features work by William Blake, describing depression in class on a summer's day, Carol Ann Duffy, on her love for chocolates, and many more.

Author : Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118843253

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A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 by Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm Pdf

A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.

Author : Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118843208

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A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 by Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm Pdf

A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004486324

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Anthologies of British Poetry by Anonim Pdf

From Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to the last twentieth-century Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), anthologies have been a prime institution for the preservation and mediation of poetry. The importance of anthologies for creating and re-creating the canon of English poetry, for introducing ‘new' programmes of poetry, as a record of changing poetic fashions, audience tastes and reading practices, or as a profitable literary commodity has often been asserted. Despite its impact, however, the poetry anthology in itself has attracted surprisingly little critical interest in Britain or elsewhere in the English-speaking world. This volume is the first publication to explore the largely unmapped field of poetry anthologies in Britain. Essays written from a wide range of perspectives in literary and cultural studies, and the point of view of poets, editors, publishers and cultural institutions, aim to do justice to the typological, functional and historical variety with which this form of publication has manifested itself - from early modern print culture to the postmodern age of the world wide web.

Author : Stewart Conn
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1905222610

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100 Favourite Scottish Poems by Stewart Conn Pdf

Scotland has a long history of producing outstanding poetry. From the humblest but-and-ben to the grandest castle, the nation had a great tradition of celebration and commemoration through poetry. 100 favourite Scottish poems - incorporating the nation's best-loved poems as selected in a BBC Scotland listeners poll - ranges from the ballads of Burns from Proud Maisie to The Queen of Sheba, and from Cuddle Doon to The Jeelie Piece Song.

Author : Alexandra Warwick,Emma Shackleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015057615729

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The Nation's Favourite Poems of Celebration by Alexandra Warwick,Emma Shackleton Pdf

From celebrating the birth of a baby through memories of childhood recalled in later life, to the joy of friendship and the delight of finding love, there are many moments of happiness to be cherished in our lives. Arranged thematically around significant stages in our lives, poets of every age find cause for celebration in a selection of 100 popular poems: Sylvia Plath marvels at her child in "You're"; Dylan Thomas on his thirtieth birthday finds his heart singing with the joy he felt as a young boy; Shakespeare, John Donne and many others celebrate the power of love; while Walt Whitman and Anne Finch find pleasure in their solitude. Including much-loved classics and humorous, poignant and evocative verse, this delightfully upbeat collection celebrates both those smaller moments of pleasure and those that mark the major stages in our lives.

Author : Daniel Nadler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374714819

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Lacunae by Daniel Nadler Pdf

Lacunae, Daniel Nadler's debut collection, is an exercise in poetics of vital import. In it, Nadler imagines himself into those moments of unintelligibility--that blank space in between things--where constraint and expansion coincide. These poems, translations of work that does not otherwise exist, are intended to fill the invented or actual lacunae in manuscripts of classical Indian poetry. When faced with such ellipses, like where a few decisive hieroglyphs have worn off a wall, he infers and reconstructs the flora, fauna, and pleasures of an ancient world. "Like the wind that gusts coastal pines toward the water / sleep bends me toward my lover / and I cannot drink from her": Nadler's is a project of constant negotiation. He attends to impulses of restoration and conservation, in turns. From this tension arises verse of simplicity and clarity of vision, imbued with that trembling quality of new life "luminous and half-naked." Lacunae, deeply felt and gnomically wise, dares to pave a poetic landscape all its own, the work of a remarkable new poet with enormous ambition and ability.

Author : Leslie Pockell
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780446511933

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The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell Pdf

Here in this portable treasury are the 100 most moving and memorable love poems of all time, each accompanied by an illuminating introduction. Words of Love...and seduction, heartbreak, adoration, and passion. Revisit the Classics: "He Is More Than a Hero" by Sappho Sonnet 18 ("Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds") by William Shakespeare "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron Enjoy Old Favorites: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear "When I Was One and Twenty" by A. E. Housman Make Surprising Discoveries: "Your Catfish Friend" by Richard Brautigan "To Alice B. Toklas" by Gertrude Stein "Valentine" by Donald Hall "True Love" by Judith Viorst Carry this book wherever you go. It's a perfect companion to read alone or to share with that special person in your life. The 100 Best Love Poems of all Time.