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
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
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Louis MacNeice
The poet Louis MacNeice's pioneering critical study of W. B. Yeats was undertaken in 1939, shortly after the death of Yeats, and published early in 1941, in time of war ... 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
Collected Poems: Norman Nicholson
With its publication by Faber in 1994, this Collected Poems revealed for the first time the true range of Norman Nicholson's output, as well the strength of the Christian element ... 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
Hoping It Might Be So: Kit Wright
A rewarding collection from an interesting, prolific and lively poet whose poems range from ribald to grief-stricken, elegiac to rambunctious. More
The Pocket Book of Poems and Songs for the Open Air: Edited by Edward Thomas
This remarkable anthology is meant, in the words of its editor, for all those 'who like a book that can always lighten some of their burdens or give wings to ... 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
Larkin at Sixty: Anthony Thwaite (ed.)
Goethe's Faust: Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice's translation of Goethe's Faust distills the digressive dimensions of the original - at once a play and an epic poem - into a verse drama for the ear. More
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