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Philip Larkin's second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers. The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again. from 'At Grass'

This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures.

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ne fut pas seulement un grand poète novateur et visionnaire. Il s’engagea en politique, explora l’histoire celte, cofonda l’Abbey Theatre, le théâtre national irlandais. Une fiche...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Un des manuscrits qui contient le Canzoniere de Pétrarque (1304-1374) porte le titre en latin de Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (« fragments en langue vulgaire »). Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique,...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Ovide, Publius Ovidius Naso (43 av. J.-C.-17 apr. J.-C.), reprend dans ses Métamorphoses un thème classique de l’Antiquité : le récit des transformations d’hommes en bêtes, en objets inanimés, parfois en forces de...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Composé selon François Villon (1431-apr. 1463) dans la nuit de Noël 1456, le Lais avait utilisé en le parodiant le motif courtois de la « départie » d’amour de « l’amant martyr », afin de distribuer sur le mode...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis C’est au château de Duino, sur les bords de l’Adriatique, où il avait été invité par la princesse de La Tour et Taxis et trouvé un havre provisoire de paix, qu’en janvier-février 1912 Rilke compose les deux premières...

Originally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship...

In his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal. For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert...

Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a unique collaborative exploration of the legacies of the late philosopher, Jacques Derrida, across a wide variety of fields. Anchoring the book are two major essays on mourning by two...

Affectionate yet satirical, this sequence of poems focuses on a family of giants and, in particular, on a young giant woman and her efforts to conceal from her normally sized lover how tall she truly is. The witty verses are infused with warmth and transcend a reader's everyday reality and experiences....

This title, first published in 1909, presents a selection of the most important essays by members of the renowned Browning Society, which existed to promulgate the works of and appreciation for perhaps the greatest English poet of the Victorian Age. Browning’s poetry deals with themes that...

Carolyn Miller is a lyric poet of redeeming grace and intense clarity. Her poems are grounded in a sense of the marvelous, as if viewing life through a jewel, transforming the dark world of memory and desire into a luminous presence. She is a master of distilled moments. The mood of the poems in Route...

Lorna Dee Cervantes is a pivotal figure throughout the Chicano literary movement and this book gathers 30 years’ worth of essays and articles about her as well as interviews with her. A fifth-generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumasch) heritage, Cervantes is widely considered...