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Author
Publisher
Appleton
Pub. Date
1905
Language
English
Description
The 'Seven Seas' is a bitter, disillusioned series of poems centered on Britain's role in colonialism and Empire building. With reverberating lyrics and powerful imagery, Kipling writes of the ruthless means that were often employed to add nations to the glorious Empire, and the subsequent effects upon these colonized nations. Though disturbing and unsettling in theme, Kipling's lyrical dexterity makes these poems strangely compelling reading.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.'
One of the most popular of the Romantic poets, Keats' poetry is suffused with adoration for natural beauty, exploration of joy and pain, and ideas on the transience of life. This new collection combines many of Keats' well-loved poems - from 'Ode to a Nightingale' to 'Bright Star' - with his letters, often studied, analysed and admired in parallel...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love--and Joni Mitchell's album Blue was her inspiration. 'Blue became part of my language of intimacy,' she writes, recalling the dozens of times she played the record as a teen, 'an intimacy of disclosure, vulnerability, unadorned feeling that I thought I'd eventually share with a romantic other.' As the years ticked by, she held on to this very specific idea of romance like...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety, or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language. And they were barely out of their teens when their...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Poet Glyn Maxwell wakes up in a mysterious village one autumn day. He has no idea how he got there; is he dead? In a coma? Dreaming?-- but he has a strange feeling there's a class to teach. And isn't that the poet Keats wandering down the lane? Why not ask him to give a reading, do a Q and A, hit the pub with the students afterwards? Soon the whole of the autumn term stretches ahead, with Byron, Yeats and Emily Dickinson, the Bronts͡, the Brownings,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Examines early British poetry from the 7th century into the 19th century, including short biographies of poets like William Shakespeare and John Donne; also examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scribner UK
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Benjamin Zephaniah is a pioneer of performance poetry. His talent as a lyricist and storyteller emerged at a young age, helping him survive the racism and institutionalised prejudice he faced growing up in 1960s Birmingham
19) John Keats
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the English poet and presents some of his poems, including "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn."