Paperback. Pub Date :2011-06-01 Pages: 128 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner. Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature.In this series. a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces. the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley. Selected by Fiona Sampson

Literature & Fiction

Fiona Sampson

Poetry

Faber&Faber

Writing: Self and Reflexivity

This guide is ideal for students of creative writing who wish to explore the writing process and its relationship to self in order to develop as writers. Each chapter links a range of theoretical approaches to one practical aspect of writing, using illustrations from fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction, and suggesting practical exercises for pursuing the topic further. The book will enable students to develop literary, critical and psychodynamic understandings of the creative process and to explore a range of key topics.

Celia Hunt

Palgrave

<p>We think we know the Romantic countryside: that series of picturesque landscapes familiar from paintings, poems and music that are still part of Britain's idea of itself today.\nBut for the Romantics themselves, the countryside was a place where radical change was underway both within and around them. 'Romanticism isn't a cultural artefact; it's a way for thought to move,' writes highly acclaimed biographer and poet Fiona Sampson in this transporting and vividly evocative book, in which she spends a year walking in the Romantics' footsteps, from Kent to Kintyre. Setting out across ten landscapes, as the Romantics once did as they wrote, travelled, settled, or tried to define the rural environment, Fiona Sampson walks not with a sense of nostalgic cliché, but radically alive to interaction between the human and the natural world.\nSo how were poets, writers, artists and philosophers of the time shaped by their natural environment? And how can we return to the vividness with which they experienced it? Starlight Wood is part group biography, part cultural history, and part an essay about place. In it, we find Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning using diet as a symbol of radicalism, and John Constable revealing the emptiness of the post-Enclosure British countryside; while the young William Wordsworth follows the ideal of radical sensibility into the heart of Revolutionary France, and the biggest military structure in Britain since Hadrian's Wall is engineered on Romney Marsh to keep Napoleon at bay.\nMoving intuitively between art, politics, agriculture, science and philosophy, and punctuated by the author's personal reflections - most movingly on the death during the pandemic of her artist father, whose line-and-wash drawings act as gateways through which we embark on each walk - Starlight Wood brilliantly examines the importance of the countryside in shaping Romantic attitudes, and offers a gripping insight into the lives of some of the most influential figures of the age.</p>

Starlight Wood

Corsair

Lyric Cousins

Edinburgh University Press

<p>Named after the famous train route connecting the capitals of Europe, Orient Express is devoted to introducing the writings of the Enlargement Europe countries to English readers, Including more established and young radical writers many of whom have never before been translated into English--from such countries as Albamia, Belarusse, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Laivia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romama, Slovaka, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukrame, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Orient Express is a vital resource for readers interested in international fiction and is the only publication specializing in the literatures of all the countries poised to join the European Union. History as we learnt in school, is the capitalized march of public events, war, power, empire, religion, But histories - stories--run through our minds like times we can't get rid of, before we know it, we're wa king in step to them. Public or personal, they compete to be the story we live by. In this issue of Orient Express fifteen writers, from Estoma to Alabama, the Czech Republic to Belarusse, take a look at how personal stories fit against the great events of collective or political history. Including fiction, poetry, and polemies from, among others, Andrej Blunk and Michal Hvorecky throwing down the gauntlet for today's Central Europe, Bulgarian Georgi Gospoduov's much-talked-about debut novel; major poets Piotr Summer, Doris Kareva and, with part of a verse-novel, Joana lerqnim; post modern magicians Ardian-Christain Kuciuk (Albania) and Aleksandar Prokopiev (Macedonta); and Czech artist-poet Martin Zet.</p>

Orient Express Volume 6 Winter 2004, Histories, the Best of Contemporary Writing From Enlargement Europe

Oxford Brookes University

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