Penguin book of scottish verse

Penguin Book of Scottish Verse

An anthology that offers a view over the history of Scottish history, extending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th. This volume also features

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Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

A collection of verse that contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending w

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Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse

Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to

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Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature.

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Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

Includes poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). This volume offers selections from major poets such as Arnold,

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Penguin Book of English Verse

This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individua

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Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

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Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories

A collection that gives a multi-faceted view of Scotland, the Scots and the Scottish short story, with stories ranging from Roman Britain through the

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Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English

Even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Many established writers and exciting new voices, are exploring w

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Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse

Quentin Blake is one of the best loved of children's illustrators. This book selects and illustrates his favourite comic verse. His unique style of dr

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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse - Christopher Childers

<p>Newly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, an anthology unlike any now availableComposed between the early-agricultural 'song culture' of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the corpus of Greek and Latin lyric poetry is as densely rich in formal interrelation a...

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The Prose Edda - Byock Jesse

Anotace: The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythologyWritten in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. In prose interspersed with powerful...

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The Fraud - Smith Zadie

Anotace: Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatu...

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Devotions : The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Chosen as one of Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club! Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expo...

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Leaves of Grass: 1855 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Walt Whitman

<p>The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelv...

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Devotions : The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver - Mary Oliver

<p>Chosen as one of Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club! Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliant...

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Celtic Miscellany

Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this book offers a blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the n

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Woman Much Missed

After the death of his wife Emma, the author wrote some of the best verse of his career. This book deals with his works.

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Selected Poems

A selection of Roger McGough's finest, best-loved verse. This book represents the complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new millen

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First Rumpole Omnibus

An omnibus that celebrates Horace Rumpole's legal triumphs, plundering sorties into the "Oxford Book of English Verse" and less-than-salubrious hat.

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Poems - Wilfred Owen

<p>A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Poems is Wilfred Owen's only volum...

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Wessex Poems and Other Verses - Thomas Hardy

<p>A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Wessex Poems was Hardy's first col...

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The Temple - George Herbert

<p>A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. On his deathbed George Herbert ent...

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Brown Girl Dreaming, 1. vydání - Jacqueline Woodson

<p>Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. A President Obama O Book Club pick Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 196...

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The Fraud - Zadie Smith

<p>Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatur...

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Po Bábelu - George Steiner

<p>Stěžejní dílo jednoho z nejvýraznějších žijících literárních a kulturních kritiků anglicky mluvícího světa. G. Steiner v něm zkoumá fenomén překladu. Vychází z židovské kabaly a jazykové mystiky stejně jako z moderní hermeneutiky a v protestu proti úzké specializaci uvažuje o překladu jako základním prvku všeho rozumění, interpretace a komunikace, vlastně celých ...

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