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  • The Unquiet Grave

    by Palinurus ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Delphi Collected Works of T. S. Eliot (Illustrated)

    by T. S. Eliot, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 46 - Delphi Poets Series
    An American-English poet, playwright and influential literary critic, T. S. Eliot was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry, producing important works such as ‘The Waste Land’ and ‘Prufrock’. His work exerted a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920’s until late on in the century. His experiments in diction, style and versification helped revitalise English poetry, while ... Read more

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  • Rimbaud: the Works

    A Season in Hell; Poems & Prose; Illuminations

    CHARLES NICHOLL, author of SOMEBODY ELSE: ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN AFRICA 1880-91 has written of Dennis J. Carlile's translation of RIMBAUD:THE WORKS."These are the best renditions of Rimbaud in English since Wallace Fowlie's nearly forty years ago, and many of them surpass that high standard. These poems have been wrestled with, which is the very least they demand, and successfully brought back home. ... Read more

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  • The Waste Land and Other Writings

    by T.S. Eliot ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, ... Read more

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  • Selected Writings

    by Gerard de Nerval ...
    Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection of his works includes 'Aurélia', the memoir of his madness; the haunting novella of love and memory 'Sylvie' (considered to be a masterpiece by ... Read more

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  • A History of Silence

    From the Renaissance to the Present Day

    by Alain Corbin ...
    Translated by Jean Birrell ...
    Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and ... Read more

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  • AMIEL’S JOURNAL - The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

    by Henri, Frédéric Amiel ...
    Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic. Born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. After losing his parents at an early age, Amiel travelled widely, became intimate with the intellectual leaders of Europe, and made a special study of German philosophy in Berlin. In 1849 he was ... Read more

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  • Art and Faith

    Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau

    by Jacques Maritain, Jean Cocteau ...
    The meaning of poetry and the sociological and political significance of art are dealt with in these letters. ... Read more

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  • Baudelaire the Damned

    A Biography

    by F. W. J. Hemmings ...
    First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F. W. J. Hemmings gives us a fascinating new perspective on Baudelaire's extraordinary, complex personality, his artistic achievements, and his tormented life.Hemmings, the noted biographer of Zola and Alexandre Dumas, has drawn on a great volume of material for this work, ... Read more

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  • The Books in My Life

    by Henry Miller ...
    In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking––but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have brought to a keenly curious and questioning mind. Some of Miller ... Read more

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  • The Essential Victor Hugo

    by Victor Hugo, E. H. Blackmore, A. M. Blackmore ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging zest and vitality. Here, for the first time in English, all ... Read more

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  • Verlaine's Rimbaud

    by D.J. Carlile ...
    PAUL VERLAINE (1844 - 1896) was a leading light of the French Parnassian poets, highly praised for his early collection of verse, Ftes galantes (1869). In 1872 he deserted Paris, wife and child, and the Parnassians to travel with young poet Arthur Rimbaud on a quest to "renew poetic vision." Use of drugs, alcohol, sex and violence in this pursuit led to gunshots, a prison-term, exile and the end ... Read more

    $3.99 USD