Offers a portrait of a dancer's every day. This title presents the repetition of rehearsals, the excitement of creating…

Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate…

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In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two…

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full…

Here is the memoir of an extraordinary life, an explosive story of abuse, revenge, graffiti, breakdancing, gold teeth,…

We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how…

The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever…

Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has…

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Mike Love is a founding member of the Beach Boys and the lead singer and lyricist of their biggest hits. In Good Vibrations,…

The new edition, which like the original has had the advantage of Seamus Heaney's own cooperation and unstinted access to…

This is a revised and enlarged edition. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by identifying and…

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\nAndrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his…

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What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises and Manchester…

In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist…

This proved to be fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the experimental…

\nFollowing his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another…

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\n\'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.\' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture…

During the more than ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective handbook…

Larkin\'s final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and…

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A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the YearLONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEEmerging from the jazz clubs of the…

\nAnd each of them may soon disappear from the earth. A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of…

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life…

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith\'s output in poetry, prose and drawings from…

First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish…

In this account of hunter/gatherer culture gleaned from years of living and hunting with the Inuits of the Arctic and the…

To understand Lebanon\'s history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has…

When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written…

\nThis epic masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to…

Written with the assistance, of those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera, this book…

Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction, Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the country's…

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years…

\nA powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it…

\nAnd in the fourth part of Paterson\'s ongoing poem \'The Alexandrian Library\', the poet-as-amateur scientist - from a…

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An ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, which spans six decades and draws on twelve collections.…

An attempt to isolate the 'Britishness' of British music - a wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative…

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The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the…

Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces…

This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast…

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\nThe current UK Poet Laureate\'s popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.\n…

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He was rich, secretive and - through his friendship with a famous Russian singer - implicated in the abduction of a white…

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\nWINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZEA GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2015FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY DAVID…

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After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the…

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• Rok vydání 1975

'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has…

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The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works…

\nCollectively these bring us closer to an understanding of the genius for interpretation and transformation that…

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The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions…

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Trade paperback. In this remarkable study Charles Rosen surveys the language of the music of the classical period,…