• Rok vydání 2022

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

With both of her selves unravelling, Rita will have to choose between justice and revenge. Is she a force for good - or will…

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

Offers a fresh and direct approach to the Shakespeare's Sonnets. This title discusses the meaning, technique, hidden…

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies;…

• Rok vydání 2000

In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and…

• Rok vydání 1976

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful…

• Rok vydání 2025

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

New York, 2001. 9/11 plunges the US into a state of war and political volatility - and heralds the rebirth of the city's…

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

The woman thinks of her life, her loves and friendships in the full knowledge that the man she is facing is the novelist she…

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

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. This collection, selected by…

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary…

In the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can…

'Thought-provoking and charmingly rendered.' GuardianImagine a world where seductive male sirens lure brave heroines to…

\nProvides a set of dialogues with one of the writer-directors in American film.\n…

This third collection of Brian Friel's work contains:Three Sisters (Chekhov) (1981)The Communication Cord (1982) Fathers and…

As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the…

A gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these…

In the early 1950s the author began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays,…

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It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. This work is a…

A companion to The Rattle Bag, The School Bag is an engaging and authoritative selection for the classroom. Seamus Heaney…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nIlluminating and authoritative treatise on \'how a poem works\', from the multi-award-winning poet, editor and professor…

Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has…

From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this book explores the links between hip-hop and rock. It…

A collection of prose pieces by the Poet Laureate, on literary matters and on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac…

\nBehind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those…

\nAs poet laureate, prize-winning biographer and founder of Poetry Archive, Andrew Motion has been at the centre of British…

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Alongside a selection…

\nA lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations…

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and…

Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests -…

To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative…

This collection of screenplays includes The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Go-Between,…

\nThe first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered \'far and away the best living woman…

• Rok vydání 2021

This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is…

Manchester, its bands, its fashions, its attitude, has defined pop culture for the best part of four decades. Whether it be…

\nThe Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her…

Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady…

\nThe definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.\n…

\nThe definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.\n…

\nThe definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.\n…

In addition, Eliot works hard for the Christian Church he has espoused in recent years, serving on committees for the Church…

As editor and publisher, his work is unrelenting, commissioning works ranging from Michael Roberts's The Modern Mind to…