Fyfield Books
Selected Poems
1st Edition
Edited
By C.H. Sisson, Christina Rossetti
June 03, 2014
First published in 2002. This is a collection of poems, songs and couplets by Christina Rossetti, including Maude: A Story For Girls, Christina's Maude is undoubtedly a self-portrait, and a highly critical one-but critical with standards of scrupulosity. The place of Christina's birth was 38 ...
Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems
1st Edition
By Arthur Hugh Clough, Shirley Chew
November 21, 2003
This book presents a selection of the full range of Arthur Hugh Clough's poetry, which explores the tensions of a time of radical changes in the religious, political, and literary landscape. It also includes a detailed introduction and annotations by Shirley Chew.Asked what problems most perplexed ...
Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
1st Edition
By Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth
November 20, 2003
Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) is a haunting poet of the modern city, catching its dangerous, complex beauty in works that first introduced the imagery of the urban underworld into English poetry. He was a champion of the French Symbolists. Yeats, Pound and Eliot acknowledged their debt to him ...
Charles Lamb: Selected Writings
1st Edition
By Charles Lamb, J. E. Morpurgo
November 20, 2003
Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, poet, humorist, critic and letter-writer, has an enduring reputation for his early "Tales from Shakespeare" (1807), written in collaboration with his sister Mary, and his " Essays of Elia," first published in the "London Magazine." This thematic selection of ...
Charlotte Smith: Selected Poems
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Willson, Charlotte Smith
November 20, 2003
This book presents an ideal introduction to the full range of the works of Charlotte Smith, whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience, from her influential sonnets and poems for children to extracts from her French Revolution poem....
Death's Jest Book
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Bradshaw, Thomas Lovell Beddoes
November 20, 2003
This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death....
John Skelton: Selected Poems
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerald Hammond, John Skelton
November 20, 2003
This book presents a collection of works of John Skelton, the first great modern English poet, who wrote in a vigorous vernacular, taking literary English out of the medieval world and enriching it with new forms and tones. It provides notes and glossary illuminating Skelton's works for the reader....
Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings
1st Edition
Edited
By David Jesson Dibley, Leigh Hunt
November 20, 2003
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a prolific, versatile and engaging writer. He outlived many of the poets and essayists of his generation whose reputations overshadowed his, but Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats all owed a debt to his advocacy, as did Tennyson and Browning. A poet of charm and ...
Wyndham Lewis: Collected Poems and Plays
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Munton, Wyndham Lewis
November 20, 2003
At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett. This volume includes major works: One-Way Song , and Enemy of the Stars in its two very different versions, as ...
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems and Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By C.H. Sisson, Edgar Allan Poe
April 11, 2003
His reputation has never settled, seeing as many reversals after his death as during his life. Though read and enjoyed ny many, fewer admire him openly. This volume includes all of his poetry and his most important essays....
Halcyon: Gabriel d'Annunzio
1st Edition
By Gabriel d'Annunzio
April 11, 2003
First published in 2003. GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO was born in 1863 in Pescara, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, the son of a wealthy landowner. His first volume of poetry was published in 1879, when he was sixteen. After graduating from the University of Rome, d'Annunzio married and began to write short ...
Selected Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis Keene, Henry Howard
April 11, 2003
This book is a collection of selected poems of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, who is revealed as subtle and graceful poet and a translator whose vigorous and faithful versions of the Aeneid continue to enrich the literary tradition....