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“paddy lyons”

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  • Lord Rochester

    Edited by Paddy Lyons ...
    The archetypal Restoration rake, Rochester wrote poems of love, debauchery, erotic obsession and impotence full of honesty and raw power. ... Read more

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  • Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry (Illustrated Edition)

    by Kuno Meyer ...
    Kuno Meyer (20 December 1858 11 October 1919) was born in Germany, but was a distinguished Celtic scholar, whose translations of the ancient Celtic manuscripts were cited by Lady Augusta Gregory, William Butler Yeats, and other members of the Irish Literary Revival of the early 20th century. This edition of Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry runs the gamut from pagan poems to the dawn of the ... Read more

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  • Helen of Troy

    by Andrew Lang ...
    In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having the face that launched a thousand ships. Helen or Helene is probably derived from the Greek word meaning "torch" or "corposant ... Read more

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  • The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    The famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy.While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as ... Read more

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  • Sweeney Astray

    A Version from the Irish

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims ... Read more

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  • Anglo-Saxon Verse

    The Collected Poetic Works

    by Anonymous ...
    The first Saxon migration to the British Isles arrived in 449AD, after which a flourishing culture developed (Anglo-Saxon) - only ending with the Norman invasion in 1066.Of all the Anglo-Saxon art remaining to us, their poetry is of the very highest literary quality, and provides a fantastic source of information about pre-Christian Germanic history, myth and culture.Invaluable to students of both ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • Between Two Windows

    by Oli Hazzard ...
    The first book of poems by Oli Hazzard, this compilation exposes its author as a consummate master of language, a gifted writer of free verse with the ability to write in traditional poetic forms and stretch the forms to their limits. Through lyrical poems and satires, this collection explores contrasting milieus such as city and country and reality and dream, while subjects such as thefts and ... Read more

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  • The Poetry Of William Morris

    by William Morris ...
    The Poetry Of William Morris. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look ... Read more

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  • Who Is Mary Sue?

    by Sophie Collins ...
    In the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent ... Read more

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  • Love Visions

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Brian Stone ...
    Translated by Brian Stone ...
    Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet ... Read more

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  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    by William Blake ...
    Songs of Innocence and of Experienceby William BlakeOrion Press Hardcover, First published in 1967, copyright 1967, with 54 Plates. - Wm. Blake was a great artist as well as one of the greatest poets in the English language. Blake wrote out his poems with the surrounding designs, etched each page and coloured it by hand as and when he had a purchaser. Today, these books are museum pieces, and even ... Read more

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  • The Ballad of Thomas Tyne

    by Adrian Poniatowski ...
    Inspired by a challenging course in organic chemistry, this ballad tells of an alchemist in medieval England that would be the clever deliverer of girl imprisoned by a witch. ... Read more

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