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Collected Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the e ...Show more
Selected Poems: Carol Ann Duffy by Carol Ann Duffy
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Poetry Library
'Poetry, like love, depends on a kind of recognition. So often with Duffy does the reader say, "Yes, that's it exactly," that she could well become the representative poet of the present day' - Sean O'Brien, "Sunday Times". "Selected Poems" contains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her acclaimed vo ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
$17.50 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eightee ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
$15.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhyth ...Show more
The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats by W. B. Yeats
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described ...Show more
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: good-very good
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages ...Show more
The Works of Banjo Paterson by A.B. Paterson
$16.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson may fairly be regarded as Australia's national poet. 'Waltzing Matilda', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'The Man from the Snowy River' still strike a chord in the hearts of Australians wherever they may be, evoking, as they do, the rough life and values of the outback. The a ...Show more
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