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Complete Poems
Series: Fyfield Books
Rimbaud called Charles Baudelaire 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu'. The history of modern poetry begins with him. This is a comprehensive translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. Baudelaire contemplated...
Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
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Sonnets to Orpheus
with Letters to a Young Poet
Series: Fyfield Books
Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
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Selected Poems
Series: Fyfield Books
For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound regarded him as an exemplary figure of solitary dedication to art and beauty. He called the sonnet...
Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
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Selected Poems
Series: Fyfield Books
The life and works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) have a perennial fascination for the theatre going and reading public, and it is surprising that no separate edition of the poetry has been published for decades. Malcolm Hicks provides a generous and timely selection, introduction and notes. Here is...
Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
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The Debt to Pleasure
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: In the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
Series: Fyfield Books
Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and in the words of those who loved and loathed him. The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with startling, ribald and...
Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
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Selected Poems
Series: Fyfield Books
The poems and poem fragments selected by Epson and Pirie represent the very best of Coleridges work. Many of Coleridge's poems are astounding successes, but for everyone of these there are also abysmal failures making it difficult for the layman to approach this leading Romantic without guidance....
Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
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Selected Poems
Series: Fyfield Books
"The quality which [Andrew] Marvell had," T.S. Eliot remarked, "whether we call it wit or reason or even urbanity.is something precious and needed and apparently extinct." This selection does justice to every aspect of his poetry and demonstrates why he remains one of the best-loved poets in...
Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge
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The Bronte Sisters
Selected Poems
Series: Fyfield Books
Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice,...
Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge