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Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) was a British novelist best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World" This collection contains the first four books of poetry he published between 1916 and 1920: The Burning Wheel Jonah The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems Leda

The Sense of Movement, Thom Gunn's second collection, was first published in 1957. 'This book . . . establishes Gunn as one of the few really interesting poets of his generation and promises greatly for the future.' Times Literary Supplement

Gordon D Wilkinson, born July 1948 in Oxford, United Kingdom:reading is one of the pastimes that serving in the british army in brunei, was one of the few things to do at night. poetry first surprised then engulfed my spare time, after being given a very tatty old book of rhyme. once the appetite...

These are days of wobble: corporate insecurity, tremors of uncertainty, damage limitation and insolvency, survival of the fattest and houses built on sand. God help us. What makes you think he’s there at all and listening, remotely interested in the mess we’re in? Nature does what nature is;...

Steve Garrett is a Cardiff-based social entrepreneur, writer, poet and musician. Originally from Wrexham, Steve spent many years living in Canada trying out a lot of different occupations before returning to settle in Wales, where, amongst other things, he has set up and run farmers markets. Steve...

8 works of Francis Thompson English poet and ascetic (1859-1907) This ebook presents a collection of 8 works of Francis Thompson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - At Lord's - New Poems - Poems - Shelley - Sister Songs -an Offering to Two Sisters - The Hound of Heaven - The Kingdom of Heaven - Victorian Ode

One of the great Victorian poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems.

Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. Spenser's shorter poems reveal his generic and stylistic versatility, his remarkable linguistic skill and his mastery of complex...

Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications, and has included...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most...

Thispoem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky...

Michael D. Higgins is one of Ireland's leading public intellectuals. As well as having made a significant contribution to public life, he is a prolific poet, whose work ranges from the personal to the political, and geographically from the west of Ireland to Nicaragua and the Middle East. Here, he...

An enchanting collection by a new young poet, this includes six playful, warm and allusive sequences, literary variations on domestic life, domestic takes on literature.

War and Other Pieces Ewart Alan Mackintosh, war poet and an officer (1893-1917) This ebook presents «War and Other Pieces», from Ewart Alan Mackintosh. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- WAR, THE LIBERATOR...