Anthony Thwaite is an English poet and writer whose work is marked by keen observation and subtle language. His writing often draws from personal experience and reflection, focusing on universal human emotions and relationships. Thwaite gained recognition for his editorial work and role as a literary executor, carefully shaping the accessibility of other significant authors' works for a wider audience. His own compositions reflect a deep engagement with poetry and literary tradition.
A collection of verse that contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards.
Claudia Hampton is dying. As memories crowd in, she re-creates the mosiac of her life, her own story enmeshed with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the centre of her life, Tom, her one great love both found and lost in the "mad fairyland" of war-torn Egypt.
Annotation This new edition of Larkin's poems for the first time presents his four published books, The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows in their original sequence.
One of Americas best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written.
Spanning forty-five years in the poet's life and encompassing more than seven hundred letters, this collection of Larkin's writings includes his correspondence with Kingsley Amis, Barbara Pym, Robert Conquest, his editors, and many others.
A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1984
A collection of essays and poems on various locations in the British Isles, contributed by over forty writers with special connections to the landscape.
pp. 428, SIGNED and dedicated by Beny.
