North by Seamus Heaney

$8.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good

With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and landscape--and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from differen t parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly. ...Show more

Field Work by Seamus Heaney

$12.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Wintering Out by Seamus Heaney

$12.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Selected Poems, 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney

$12.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Ezra Pound - Selected Poems, 1908-1969 by Ezra Pound

$8.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good

This edition includes a representative group of early shorter poems, much of Pound's major work and a selection from the "Cantos".

W H Auden: Selected Poems by W H Auden

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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good

This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden's Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden's work. Newly included are such favorites as Funeral Blues and other work s that represent Auden's lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his genius. Also new are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure to younger generations of readers and a revised introduction that draws on recent additions to knowledge about Auden. As in the original edition, the new Selected Poems makes available the preferred original versions of some thirty poems that Auden revised later in life, making it the best source for enjoying the many facets of Auden's art in one volume. ...Show more

Stolen Apples by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

$6.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good

Stevie Smith: Selected Poems by Stevie Smith

$10.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good

Borderlands (La Frontera) - The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

$12.00 NZD

Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good

William Wordsworth - 21st-Century Oxford Authors by Stephen Gill (Editor)

$18.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Series: 21st Century Oxford Authors Ser. | Reading Level: near fine

The Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language. The familiar poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade' are all included, but they are complemented bya more tha n usually generous selection of the best poems from his later years. The extracts from the Guide to the Lakes will be a revelation to many readers, as will the political prose of the Convention of Cintra.All of the material is presented in chronological sequence, so that the reader can see how Wordsworth's changing concerns were expressed in prose as well as poetry. Work which Wordsworth published is separated from that which he did not reveal, which will enable the reader to trace throughsuccessive published volumes the development of Wordsworth's public poetic self, while also being able to follow the growth of the body of poetry which, for whatever reason, Wordsworth did not choose to make public when it was written - The Prelude being the greatest and most obvious example. ...Show more

Robert Browning - Selected Writings by Richard Cronin (Editor); Dorothy McMillan (Editor)

$18.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Series: 21st Century Oxford Authors Ser. | Reading Level: near fine

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this is the first one-volume fully annotated edition of Browning's poetry. It presents work written across the breadth of his career, from the very first poem he published, Pauline, to Asolando, the volume that was published on the day that he died.The text chosen is, wherever possible, the text of the poem as it was first published by Browning himself, and as a consequence the volume also constitutes a kind of biography that enables students to understand Browning's development over the course of his life. The edition reveals a poet who began as a bold experimentalist, and who continued to experiment throughout a writing career of more than fifty years. Browning is best known for his dramatic monologues, and the dramatic monologues arefully represented in this volume, but he was also a narrative poet, a poet of philosophical reflection, and a poet who fashioned an extraordinary variety of lyric measures. This volume reveals Browning as a far more versatile poet than he is often taken to be. There are two important prose items, anessay on Shelley and a letter to Ruskin which clarify Browning's intellectual stance. The Notes include brief headnotes to each poem followed by detailed annotation, and they assist the reader in developing a full understanding of these masterful poems.Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Browning, and a Chronology. ...Show more

Poems to Learn by Heart by Ana Sampson

$14.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

'Paths of glory', 'Theirs not to reason why', 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep', 'A handful of dust', 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' - these and many others are famous lines of poetry that often occur in everyday speech. But do you know the rest of the verse, or even the rest of th e poem? An anthology to warm the coldest heart or charm the least romantic soul, this is a collection of poems (or in some cases, extracts) that are not only memorable, but lend themselves to being learned by heart. This is the perfect book for anyone with even the vaguest interest in poetry, providing a wonderful opportunity to revisit those much-loved lines remembered from earlier days. ...Show more