Presents selections from three contemporary English poets.

Bright Lights Blaze Out (Three Poets)

Owen, Gareth

BOLD, Alan

O'Callaghan, Julie

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

This Companion, designed as an authoritative biographical and critical guide to Burns, is in six sections. Part I places Burns in context with a Chronology, 'The Burns Circle' and a Topography. Part II looks at the Burnsian issues of religion, politics, philosophy, drink, drama and sex. Part III an essay on Burns as a poetic phenomenon, is sure to provoke debate about the relevance of Burns to his time and ours. Part IV examines twenty-five poems, eighteen verse epistles and twenty-six songs as well as commenting on the letters, political ballads and Common Place Books. A Select Bibliography (Part V) and four Appendixes (Part VI) are followed by a glossary of Scots words, and index of poems and a general index.

A Burns Companion (Literary Companions)

Biographies & Memoirs

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

First published in 1983, Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal is a detailed introduction to the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry shows a persistent search for a consistent intellectual vision that reveals, in all its facets, the source of creativity recognised by the poet as 'the terrible crystal'. This introduction to his poetry shows that MacDiarmid's great achievement was a poetry of evolutionary idealism, that draws attention to itself by a series of culture shocks. It places MacDiarmid as a nationalist poet in an international context: a man whose unique concept of creative unity enabled him to combine the Scottish tradition with the linguistic experimentation of Joyce and Pound. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal is ideal for those with an interest in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poetry, and poetry and criticism more broadly.

MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal (Routledge Revivals)

Historical

Routledge

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The Sexual Dimension in Literature (Critical Studies Series)

Reference

Rl Innactive Titles

By imparting a metaphysical element of mystery to the facts of her fiction, Muriel Spark has become well-known as one of the most enigmatic writers of her time. She has never been satisfied with photographic naturalism and even her realistic descriptions have an atmosphere of illusion. A self-conscious stylist, she always seems to sense a spiritual presence behind a physical substance. Mrs. Spark's international reputation as a writer of wit, perception and (sometimes supernatural) power is subjected to a sustained examination in analytical essays. This book gives an overall image of Mrs. Spark as a remarkably gifted writer.

Muriel Spark

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

In Harold Pinter's The Homecoming Max, the domestic tyrant, says of his tearaway days with his friend Mac: "We'd walk into a place, the whole room'd stand up, they'd make way to let us pass. You never heard such silence." Pinter's plays make a similarly strong impact.By general agreement Pinter's dramatic output is uniquely expressive. Though the influence of Beckett and others has been cited, Pinter remains a writer with a tone so unusual it has brought the epithet "Pinteresque" into being. Pinter himself detests the term, and it is time his art was assessed in depth; hence the reason for this volume which brings together essays by various authorities on Pinter's work.

Harold Pinter

History & Criticism

The poems and songs of Robert Burns are known throughout the world, yet many people are unaware of the wealth of writing of all kinds which he left at his death in 1796. This is a collection of verse and prose which gives insights into Burns's complex and contradictory character. It includes some of his most revealing letters, ranging from formal appeals to potential patrons, to bawdy accounts of sexual conquests; from the elevated passion of the "Clarinda" letters to the touching domesticity of notes to his wife and family; and from fiery political satire to poignant pleas sent in the final days of his life. Here also are extracts from commonplace books, passages from travel journals and other significant pieces, including the complete text of the Autobiographical Letter, Burns's only extended account of his meteoric rise to fame.

Rhymer Rab: An Anthology of Poems and Prose by Robert Burns

Burns, Robert

Transworld Publishers, Ltd

Summarizes the lives and careers of American and British poets and includes sample quotations

Longman Dictionary of Poets

Longman Trade/Caroline House

Book by Bold, Alan, Giddings, Robert

Who Was Really Who in Fiction

Giddings, Robert

MacDiarmid

HarperCollins, Publishers

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