John Clare was the great Romantic 'peasant poet' - the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his maturity to lunatic asylums.[...]
Presents an account of English poet John Donne's life. This book takes as its domain not only the whole range of the poetry, but also the sermons, the letters, the spiritual and controversial works, and such personal documents as the treatise on suicide.[...]
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 the most[...]
THE SHEEP LOOK UP: Environmentalist Austin Train is on the run. The Trainites, environmental activists and sometime terrorists, want him to lead their movement. The government wants him in jail, or preferably, executed. The media wants a circus. Everyone has a plan for Train, but Train has a plan of[...]
(PVG Personality). This fabulous collection features 34 of Elton's all-time greatest hits, including: Bennie and the Jets * The Bitch Is Back * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Candle in the Wind * Crocodile Rock * Don't Go Breaking My Heart * Don't Let the Sun Go down on Me * Goodbye Yellow Brick Ro[...]
One of the best known examples of the hagiographic novel, this is the tale of an Indian prince who becomes aware of the world's miseries and is converted to Christianity by the monk Barlaam. Barlaam and Josaphat (Ioasaph) were believed to have re-converted India after her lapse from conversion to Ch[...]
Presents all of the English poet's verse, including his sonnets and odes, the allegorical romance "Endymion," and the five-act poetic tragedy "Otho the Great"[...]
About The Awful I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madolf Heatlump (who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn't pass -- much to my Aunties supplies. As a member of the most pu[...]
The remarkable portraits for which John Singer Sargent is most famous are only one aspect of a career that included landscapes, watercolors, figure subjects, and murals. Even within portraiture, his style ranged from bold experiments to studied formality. And the subjects of his paintings were as va[...]
When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography "A Beautiful Mind", the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. "The Essential John Nash" reveals his work - in [...]
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"John Banville" is an accessible yet detailed study that brings to the surface many of the hidden depths of one of the major writers of contemporary Irish and world fiction. It mediates between two existing kinds of critical work on Banville: novel-by-novel introductions, and specialised academic an[...]
Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, Collected Poe[...]
This work is aimed at basketball coaches. It details high post and high-low attacks, many special play options, sideline and under-the-basket in-bound plays and press-breaking tactics. Coaches can customise plays to their suit team needs, for example adding only certain options and plays or incorpor[...]
Three best-selling novels of legal suspense are integrated into a spoken-word collection that contains A Time to Kill, The Firm, and The Client, in which attorney Reggie Love takes on the case of a young boy who accidentally witnesses a murder and becomes the target of both relentless prosecutors an[...]
An illustrated encyclopedia of classic hot rods and street rods, with over 550 photographs, that gives a chronological reference to a legendary style of automobile, covering the early models of the 1920s onwards. It is suitable for automobile enthusiasts.[...]