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a collection of poems by john wain oxford england

This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. From Blake's Songs of Innocence to Heaney's Punishment, this, the second of the two volumes, encompasses the work of many of the great poets of the last two centuries, including Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; Tennyson, Hopkins, and Rosetti; and the modern poetry of Yeats, MacNiece, Auden, and Larkin. A volume to be treasured. --Oxford University Press.

John Wain, author presents a major new biography of England's greatest man of letters. He describes how "Johnson often mixed with people who were desperate human wrecks, some of whom were close friends; to the end of his life he filled house with people who were not successes in the eyes of the world, yet at the same time he conversed on equal and bettter than equeal terms with the most important and brilliant people of that time."

This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of verse in English, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. The selection begins with the English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, and includes a substantial section of extracts from Shakespeare's plays and poetry. The progression from the metaphysical school (poets such as Donne and Marvell), the Augustans (Dryden and Pope), the Romantics such as Keats and Wordsworth, the Victorians such as Tennyson and Browning, and the First World War poets such as Sassoon and W.H.Auden, right up to Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and other poets actively writing today, represents a tradition which continues to develop. All the major poets, and many of the less-well know, are featured in John Wain's selection.

Roman om livet i Oxford i slutningen af 1920'erne og i 1930'erne

Dieser Roman erzählt die Geschichte eines Jugendlichen an der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden. Thematik und Diktion erinnern an Salingers „The Catcher in the Rye“.