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John Fraser, Desires: Sixty-five French poems and one small but famous German one, translated and introduced by John Fraser. The core of Desires is a mini-anthology of sixty-five French poems translated by John Fraser and described in the foreword by scholar-translator Benoit Tadi as "beautiful" and "intensely empathetic." Taken from Fraser's major online anthology A New Book of Verse, they belong in an emergent re-seeing of French poetic history....
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This Art Book contains Foreword and annotated by Daniel Coenn reproductions of Gustav Klimt's drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Drawings played a major role in Gustav Klimt's artistic development. From sketches and preparations for oil paintings, to erotic drawings and portraits, the present book illustrates the full range and depth of Klimt's abilities as a draughtsman. Klimt's talent and brilliance as a draughtsman, however, was widely...
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The Essential Alfred Tennyson Collection, in one book: Beauties of Tennyson, The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden &c., Idylls of the King, The Last Tournament, The Princess, The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Becket and other plays, Queen Mary and Harold.
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The Poetry of Oliver Goldsmith, anthology: Table Of Contents The Traveller, The Deserted Village, Lyrical and Miscellaneous Pieces, On A Beautiful Youth Struck Blind With Lightning, The Gift, The Logicians Refuted, A Sonnet, Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec, And Death of an Elegy, On That Glory of Her Sex, Description of an Author's Bedchamber, On Seeing Mrs. ** Perform In The Character Of ****, Of The Death Of The Right Hon. ***, An Epigram, To G....
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"There are no poetic 'subjects' in this book, no conventional nightingales and daffodils, and there is no acceptance, either, of the traditional rules of meter and rhyme. As one discerning critic has said: 'We have here, in short, poetry that expresses freely a modern sensibility, the ways of feeling and the modes of experience of one fully alive in his own age'.
"The main poem in this collection is 'The Waste Land' (1922) to which Mr. Eliot has...
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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English:
•The Canterbury Tales
•The Book of the Duchess
•The House of Fame
•Anelida and Arcite
•The Parliament of Fowls
•Boece
•Troilus and Criseyde
•The Legend of Good Women
•The Shorter Poems
•A Treatise on the Astrolabe
•The Romaunt of the Rose
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