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  • Gilgamesh

    The Life of a Poem

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat. It is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Here They Are

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at Bolton University. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, and a founder (1972) and general editor of PN Review. He has written poetry, fiction and literary history, and is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Harvill Book of 20th Century Poetry in English

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Michael Schmidt’s anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Talking to Stanley on the Telephone

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Talking to Stanley on the Telephone rummages through the desires, frustrations and waning faculties of old age. The stories it tells add up to a vivacious celebration of life-spans and the darkening comedy of growing old. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Schmidt: Selected Poems

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    The Selected Poem ebooks are a new 'digitalonly' series drawn from the works of smith|doorstop poets published during the last 26 years.Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University and a Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zwielicht Classic 1

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Series series Zwielicht Classic
    Zwielicht ClassicJedes Jahr erscheinen über 200 Horrorkurzgeschichten. Zumeist leider nur in kleinen Auflagen.Zwielicht Classic hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, diesen mit den Jahren umfangreichen Schatz an unterhaltsamer, gruseliger und spannender Literatur nach und nach zu heben und in Form einer zweimonatlichen ebook Reihe einem interessierten Publikum zur Verfügung zu stellen. Dabei liegt der ... Read more

    $3.50 USD

  • The Great Modern Poets

    An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Teutonic Horror

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Sie sind auf der Suche nach guten Horrorgeschichten?Sie sind aber müde von der Suche?Sie wollen keine weiteren Lovecraft oder Poe Geschichten?Und auch die einfachen und brutalen Nacherzählungen der Hollywoodfilme sind Ihnen zuwider?Sie mögen keinen Frauengrusel?Außerdem hassen Sie liebestolle Vampire?Versuchen Sie einmal abwechslungsreiche, intelligente, aber ebenso deftige Geschichten.Erleben Sie ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • The Novel

    A Biography

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The First Poets

    Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt*, The First Poets* brings to life for the general reader the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination.Starting with the legendary and possibly mythical Orpheus and with Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Death Flight

    Apartheid's secret doctrine of disappearance

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was established, tasked with the murder of hundreds of ANC, PAC, and SWAPO members. Victims’ bodies were flung from aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the detailed analysis of flight logs and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Lives of the Poets

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistIn this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD