John Donne: John Carey
‘Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. The encounter, as one might expect, is fierce and enthralling ... This book is sensitive, searching, powerful, exciting, provocative and witty. It is a superb achievement.’ Christopher Hill, TLS
John Donne: Life, Mind and Art is a unique attempt to see Donne whole. Beginning with an account of his life, it 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 highly personal documents as the treatise on suicide. The result is a clearer picture than has hitherto emerged of one of the most intricate and compelling of literary personalities.
‘The one book we have needed all along ... A magnificent exercise in reappraisal. I have never read a critical work which reaches as deeply inside the mind of its subject.’ Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times
‘Carey’s book is itself alive with the kind of energy it attributes to Donne.’ Christopher Ricks, London Review of Books More
Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems: Federico García Lorca
A. L. Lloyd was nothing if not versatile, ethnomusicologist, journalist, radio and television broadcaster, and translator. It is as the author of Folk Song in England, also reissued in Faber ... More
Complete Poems for Children: James Reeves, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
In the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature it says of James Reeves, 'His real achievement, however, lies in his poetry, which is generally regarded as the best British "serious" children's ... More
Collected Poems 1950-1993: Vernon Scannell
In 2002 Vernon Scannell wrote the following: ‘It has been my firm belief since I first began to attempt the art of poetry that the making of a poem should ... More
Long Shadows: J. C. Hall
‘Wake up, Hall! There’ll be plenty of timeAfter this lesson for your poetry stuff.’Sniggerings from the back. An urgent rhymeJumps on my mind and drives old Euclid off.Those are the ... More
Come Hither: Walter de la Mare
‘The most compelling of anthologies, the most leisurely, and the most complete.’ Observer First published in 1923, the conception of de la Mare’s collection of poetry and prose ‘for the ... More
The Faber Book of Modern Verse: edited by Michael Roberts
First published in February 1936, just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the ... More
Tolstoy's 'War and Peace': R. F. Christian
With typically disarming modesty, the author, Professor Reginald Christian, writes in his preface, 'This is a book about a book, and as such it is doubtful it would meet with ... More
The Poems of J. V. Cunningham: J. V. Cunningham
Described during his lifetime by Thom Gunn as ‘one of the most accomplished poets alive, and one of the few of whom it can be said that he will still ... More
Nineteenth-Century Minor Poets: Edited by W. H. Auden
Who is a major, who is a minor poet? Inevitably, in his introduction, W. H. Auden offers a stimulating rationale for distinguishing between the two. To paraphrase him, one cannot ... More
John Donne: John Carey
John Carey's classic biography of one of the most intricate and compelling of literary personalities - includes the full range of his poetry, sermons and essays. More
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