Ford's novel, "Parade's End", has been acknowledged as one of the great British novels about World War I. This book features a selection of Ford's other writings about the war. It includes reminiscences, an unfinished novel, stories, and excerpts from letters.
The central theme of this collection is moments of epiphany, and landscapes include his native shire, London, and the Western Front. Written in the City of London Mental Hospital, the book offers insights into Gurney's illness, and also his sanity, rooted in memory and a sense of England.
The title of "Thumb's Width" indicates the book's preoccupation with the miniature. Sketching the childhood relationship between two brothers, the poems often settle on small objects - shrimps, cigarettes, "cat's eyes", plastic soldiers - to which childhoods may become attached.
Available in a single volume, this collection includes the whole oeuvre of Tom Raworth's poetry. He was born in London in 1938 and lived in many places abroad before settling down in Cambridge where he was for a time the resident poet at King's College.
"In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential selection of some 40 pages from the work of the poet
Sir Thomas Wyatt, "the first great English lyric poet", remains one of the most popular writer's of Henry VIII's court, and the most romantic. This book contains a representative selection of his work: best-loved and many lesser-known pieces which illuminate a complex and sophisticated sensibility.
David Jesson-Dibley's selection of the most important of Herrick's poems is arranged thematically, providing an introduction for readers new to Herrick, and a fresh perspective for those already familiar with his poetry.
Ford Madox Ford published 13 volumes of poetry between 1893 and 1936 - crucial transitional years in the evolution of modern poetry. This selection of his verse traces his development from the haunting poignancy of his early poems to his later style, influential in the development of Modernism.
This volume includes major works such as "One-Way Song" and "Enemy of the Stars" in very different versions as well as other writings that can now be seen as central to the formation of Lewis's work. The plays and poems crackle with concentrated, brilliant, and ferocious energy as Lewis creates a literary equivalent to the visual revolutions of ......
