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Caves of Making (Hardcover): Philip Gross Caves of Making (Hardcover)
Philip Gross
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a sustained exploration of creativity. Philip Gross provides a poem, 'Cave diver in the deep reach', and an extended commentary on how the poem was written. These are followed by contributions from typographer Jeremy Tankard, whose unique 'Redisturbed' typeface is used throughout this book, and artist Rika Newcombe, who provides the cover image. Caves of making offers the textual equivalent of a creative festival - a festival on the page. It brings together the work of three remarkable creatives and offers, in their own words, insights into their creative process. Philip Gross is a writer of many parts - spanning poetry, thought-provoking fiction for young people, schools opera libretti, radio short stories and plays. Collaboration with the visual arts, dance, music and other art forms has been one of the sources of energy in his writing life. Jeremy Tankard has built a worldwide reputation for the high quality and unique designs of his typefaces. In the development of the Redisturbed typeface chosen for Caves of making, he wanted to take the idea of a unicase alphabet much further than previous experiments and treat it as a conventional text type.Rika Newcombe's paintings have an uncanny sympathy with the world of creative writing. Images from her work grace the covers of all books in the Creative Writing Studies series.

The Treasuries - Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture (Hardcover): Clare Bucknell The Treasuries - Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture (Hardcover)
Clare Bucknell
R851 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R162 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter literature. Eighteenth-century children and young women were introduced to the 'safe' bits of Shakespeare or Milton through censored collections; Victorian working-class men and women enrolled at adult learning institutions to be taught from The Golden Treasury; First World War soldiers nursed copies of The Oxford Book of English Verse in the trenches; pop-loving teenagers growing up in the 1960s got their first taste of the counterculture from the bestselling The Mersey Sound. But anthologies aren't just part of literary history. Over the centuries, they have influenced the course of British social change, redrawing the map of 'high' and 'low' culture, generating conversations around politics, morality, class, gender and belief. The Treasuries, by the literary scholar and journalist Clare Bucknell, reveals the extraordinary amount we can learn about our history from the anthologies that brought readers together and changed the way they thought.

The Making of Humanity - Poetic Vision and Kindness (Paperback): Dinah Livingstone The Making of Humanity - Poetic Vision and Kindness (Paperback)
Dinah Livingstone
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Seafarer (Paperback, New Ed): Ida Gordon The Seafarer (Paperback, New Ed)
Ida Gordon; Mary Clayton
R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edition, with contextual introduction, notes, glossary and bibliography, of the poem from the Exeter Book.

Student Guide to Sylvia Plath (Paperback): Marnie Pomeroy Student Guide to Sylvia Plath (Paperback)
Marnie Pomeroy
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With a variety of works available by a single author, interested readers can see how Plath's prose relates to her poetry. A combination of talent, daring and drama guarantees Plath's poems an aura that will keep them on stage for a long time. "The Unabridged Journals", where Sylvia practiced her craft, will always stand tall without the poems, and remain a model for young would-be writers to see what it takes to succeed. "The Bell Jar" and the short stories are the result of the practice that went into the "Journals", illustrating stages in Sylvia's career as well as aspects of herself.

The Chanson des Chetifs and Chanson de Jerusalem - Completing the Central Trilogy of the Old French Crusade Cycle (Paperback):... The Chanson des Chetifs and Chanson de Jerusalem - Completing the Central Trilogy of the Old French Crusade Cycle (Paperback)
Carol Sweetenham
R1,270 Discovery Miles 12 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old French Crusade Cycle. The central trilogy at the heart of the Cycle describes the Crusade from its beginnings to the climactic battle of Ascalon, comprising the Chanson d'Antioche, the Chanson des Chetifs and the Chanson de Jerusalem. This translation of the Chetifs and the Jerusalem accompanies and completes the translation of the Antioche and makes the trilogy available to English readers in its entirety for the first time. The value of the trilogy lies above all in the insight it gives us to medieval perceptions of the Crusade. The events are portrayed as part of a divine plan where even outcasts and captives can achieve salvation through Crusade. This in turn underlies the value of the Cycle as a recruiting and propaganda tool. The trilogy gives a window onto the chivalric preoccupations of thirteenth-century France, exploring concerns about status, heroism and defeat. It portrays the material realities of the era in vivid detail: the minutiae of combat, smoke-filled halls, feasts, prisons and more. And the two newly translated poems are highly entertaining as well, featuring a lubricious Saracen lady not in the first flush of youth, a dragon inhabited by a devil, marauding monkeys, miracles and much more. The historian will find little new about the Crusade itself, but abundant material on how it was perceived, portrayed and performed. The translation is accompanied by an introduction examining the origins of the two poems and their wider place in the cycle. It is supported by extensive footnotes, a comprehensive index of names and places and translations of the main variants.

Voice Without Restraint - Bob Dylan's Lyrics 1961 - 1979 (Paperback, New edition): John Herdman Voice Without Restraint - Bob Dylan's Lyrics 1961 - 1979 (Paperback, New edition)
John Herdman
R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in June 2016, and seldom in recent years has it been more richly deserved. That a song writer's lyrics should be regarded as literature was an idea at which many were surprised. Others have felt that to isolate the lyrics of a song from its musical context is unreal. Ultimately that is true: a song is an indefeasible whole, an inseparable marriage of words and music which achieves its overall emotional effect by that symbiosis and not otherwise. Yet it can also be said that the two components can be separately considered as two elements in the artist's creative utterance, and discussed as such. The evidence of Dylan's manuscripts supports the view that in writing his lyrics his way of going about things is not always widely different from that of a poet. Bob Dylan commented on the Nobel Prize in Literature which was awarded to him "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition": "When I first received this Nobel Prize for Literature, I got to wondering exactly how my songs related to literature. I wanted to reflect on it and see where the connection was." Voice Without Restraint, refers to and is from the song "I dreamed I saw St Augustine" on John Wesley Harding, and is a phrase chosen to evoke the full-blooded commitment to his artistic utterance which is the hallmark of Bob Dylan's voice - in all senses.

William Langland's Piers Plowman - A Book of Essays (Paperback): Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith William Langland's Piers Plowman - A Book of Essays (Paperback)
Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

John Gower: Poems on Contemporary Events (Hardcover): David R. Carlson John Gower: Poems on Contemporary Events (Hardcover)
David R. Carlson; Translated by A.G. Rigg
R4,264 Discovery Miles 42 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The English poet John Gower (ca. 1340-1408) wrote important Latin poems witnessing the two crucial political events of his day: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and in 1399 the deposition of Richard II, in the Visio Anglie (A Vision of England) and Cronica tripertita (A Chronicle in Three Parts), respectively. Both poems, usually transmitted with Gower's major Latin work, Vox clamantis, are key primary sources for the historical record, as well as marking culminating points in the development of English literature. The earlier Visio Anglie is verbally derivative of numerous, varied sources, by way of its literary allusions, but is also highly original in its invention and disposition. On the other hand, the Cronica tripertita's organization, even in details, is highly derivative, and from a single source, but its verbal texture is all invented. This volume includes Latin texts of these poems of Gower, newly established from the manuscripts, with commentary on Gower's relation with the rest of the contemporary historical record and with his literary forebears and contemporaries, including Ovid, Virgil, Peter Riga, Nigel Witeker, and Godfrey of Viterbo. This volume also includes Modern English verse translations of the two poems, which are at once critically accurate and enjoyably accessible.

The Development of the Sonnet - An Introduction (Hardcover): Michael R. G Spiller The Development of the Sonnet - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Michael R. G Spiller
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

International Who's Who in Poetry 2021 (Hardcover, 21st edition): Europa Publications International Who's Who in Poetry 2021 (Hardcover, 21st edition)
Europa Publications
R11,090 Discovery Miles 110 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The twenty-first edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Key Features: - each entry provides full career history and publication details - appendices section lists international prizes, organizations and poetry publications, lists of Poets Laureate.

Lorca - The Gay Imagination (Paperback): Paul Binding Lorca - The Gay Imagination (Paperback)
Paul Binding
R205 Discovery Miles 2 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Danny P. Jackson The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Danny P. Jackson; Illustrated by Thom Kapheim; Introduction by Robert D Biggs; Edited by James G. Keenan
R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

-- 15 original woodcut illustrations

-- 18 photographs of ancient artifacts

This edition aims to reanimate the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu for modern readers. The poetic rendition brings words to life through indelible images. A learned and lucid historical and cultural introduction fills in background for the narrative. An interpretative essay reviews the themes of Gilgamesh and their echoes in other literature. The total is a new edition that delights, informs, and stimulates readers to a new appreciation of this age-old tale.

100 Poets - A Little Anthology (Paperback): John Carey 100 Poets - A Little Anthology (Paperback)
John Carey
R337 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R32 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."-The Times A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one-hundred greatest poets from across the centuries, and then choose their finest poems. Ranging from Homer and Sappho to Donne and Milton, Plath and Angelou, this is a delightful and accessible introduction to the very best that poetry can offer. Familiar favorites are nestled alongside marvelous new discoveries-all woven together with Carey's expert commentary. Particular attention is given to the works of female poets, like Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Mew. This is a personal guide to the poetry that shines brightest through the ages. Within its pages, readers will find treasured poems that remain with you for life.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - With Pearl and Sir Orfeo (Paperback): J. R. R. Tolkien Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - With Pearl and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
J. R. R. Tolkien; Edited by Christopher Tolkien
R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values. Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters. Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's. The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals, and are uniquely accompanied with the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.

Ernest Dowson - Poetry and Love in the 1890s (Paperback): Henry Maas Ernest Dowson - Poetry and Love in the 1890s (Paperback)
Henry Maas
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, Second Edition): Benjamin R Foster The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, Second Edition)
Benjamin R Foster
R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece. Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations. Eleven illustrations. Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite narrative traditions along with "The Gilgamesh Letter," a parody of the epic enjoyed by Mesopotamian schoolchildren during the first millennium BCE. Essays by Thorkild Jacobsen, William L. Moran, Susan Ackerman, and Andrew R. George, and a poem by Hillary Major. A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.

Wordsworth and Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Paperback): Andrew Keanie Wordsworth and Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Paperback)
Andrew Keanie
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Poetry as Method - Reporting Research Through Verse (Paperback, New): Sandra L. Faulkner Poetry as Method - Reporting Research Through Verse (Paperback, New)
Sandra L. Faulkner
R1,139 Discovery Miles 11 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to using and creating poetry for conducting and reporting social research. It includes examples of poetry, interviews of poets, and practical exercises that will enhance the discussion of poetry writing as a method. When used as a teaching guide this book will encourage students to consider the importance of form and function in poetry for qualitative methods. It also answers the question of how to teach the creation and evaluation of poetry, it combats the perception that poetry is too difficult or mysterious to use as research and that only poets should be concerned with poetic craft.

The Connell Guide To Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Paperback): Stephen Fender The Connell Guide To Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
Stephen Fender
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

English writers have a way of invoking paternal imagery when thinking of Chaucer. "The Medieval word for a Poet, was a Maker," said G.K Chesterton, and "there was never a man who was more of a maker than Chaucer. He made a national language; he came very near to making a nation. At least without him it would probably have been neither so fine a language or so great a nation. Shakespeare and Milton were the greatest sons of their country; but Chaucer was the father of his country, rather in the manner of George Washington." A sweeping claim, maybe, but with a nucleus of truth. Chaucer really was a kind of English founding father. He didn't invent the language for literature but he chose it - and put his energy into exploiting and developing it. And The Canterbury Tales is where it happened. The Canterbury Tales was truly original. Chaucer's narrators, pilgrims on the road to Canterbury, range from a knight to a wealthy landowner, a merchant, a miller and minor church officials. They are brought to life by vivid descriptions of their clothing, bodily appearance and behaviour - and through the wide variety of English vernacular they voice. These are the raw materials out of which Chaucer not only produces comedy but develops themes like the condition of the church, the conflict between fate and free will, and what it is that constitutes authority, whether in the Bible or the conventions of courtly-love romance. In 1478, the printer William Caxton thought it to be such an English monument that he invested a fortune in time and money to publish The Canterbury Tales as the first ever book in English to be printed in England. It has never been out of print since.

Donne's God (Hardcover): P.M. Oliver Donne's God (Hardcover)
P.M. Oliver
R3,918 Discovery Miles 39 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

His contemporaries recognised John Donne (1572-1631) as a completely new kind of poet. He was, wrote one enthusiast, 'Copernicus in Poetrie'. But in the winter of 1614-15 Donne abandoned part-time versification for full-time priestly ministry, quickly becoming one of the most popular preachers of his time. While his verse has never been short of modern admirers, his sermons have recently begun to receive their full share of serious attention. Yet there exists almost no theologically-informed criticism to assist readers with navigating, let alone appreciating, the intricacies of Donne's religious thinking. The need for such criticism is especially urgent since many readers approach his writing today with little previous knowledge of Christian doctrine or history. This book supplies that deficiency. Starting from the assumption that theology is inevitably the product of the human imagination, a perception that is traced back to major early Christian writers (and something that Donne implicitly acknowledged), it probes the complex amalgam that constituted his ever-shifting vision of the deity. It examines his theological choices and their impact on his preaching, analysing the latter with reference to its sometimes strained relationship with Christian orthodoxy and the implications of this for any attempt to determine how far Donne may legitimately be viewed as a mouthpiece for the Jacobean and Caroline Church of England. The book argues that the unconventionality that characterises his verse is also on display in his sermons. As a result it presents Donne as a far more creative and risk-taking religious thinker than has previously been recognised, especially by those determined to see him as a paragon of conventional Christian orthodoxy.

Clay Phoenix - A Biography of Jack Clemo (Paperback): Luke Thompson Clay Phoenix - A Biography of Jack Clemo (Paperback)
Luke Thompson
R490 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R45 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Second World War Poetry in English (Paperback): John Lucas Second World War Poetry in English (Paperback)
John Lucas
R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

He argues that the best poetry that came out of the 1939-45 war, while very different from the work of Owen, Rosenberg, Gurney, and their contemporaries, is in no sense inferior. It also has different matters to consider. War in the air, war at sea, war beyond Europe, the politics of Empire, democratic accountability - these are no subjects to be found in the poetry of the Great War. Nor is sex. Nor did American poets have much to say about that war, whereas the Americans Randall Jarrell, Anthony Hecht, and Louis Simpson, are among the greatest English-speaking poets of World War Two. Both Hecht and Simpson write about the Holocaust and its aftermath, as do the English poets, Lotte Kramer and Gerda Mayer. For these reasons among others, Englishspeaking poetry of the Second World War deserves to be valued as work of unique importance.

The Poems of W.B. Yeats - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Paperback, annotated edition): Michael O'Neill The Poems of W.B. Yeats - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Paperback, annotated edition)
Michael O'Neill
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days


Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook provides essential help for readers who wish to learn more about his powerful, haunting poems.
Considering Yeats's early, dreamily evocative poems as well as his passionate, tension-ridden later work, Michael O'Neill offers a refreshingly clear discussion of:
*contexts - through an invaluable, accessible overview, a detailed chronology and contemporary documents revealing Yeats's understanding of his vocation as a poet;
*interpretations - through helpfully introduced extracts from criticism of Yeats's work, ranging from early responses through to modern critical texts;
*key poems - in a section where insightful commentary accompanies the full annotated text of many of Yeats's major poems;
*further reading - to guide those interested in additional study.
The Sourcebook is ideal for those new to Yeats's poetry or those who wish to look deeper into its workings, its reception and the contexts from which it emerged.

Die Twaalfde Letter (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Daniel Hugo Die Twaalfde Letter (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Daniel Hugo
R20 Discovery Miles 200 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die twaalfde letter is die bekende digter, akademikus en radioman Daniel Hugo se sestiende digbundel. Die liefdesvers, die erotiek, die speelse gedig, die spel met ander digters, die obsessie met die dood keer in hierdie bundel terug. Oor die gedigte in hierdie bundel se Joan Hambidge: “Waarskynlik was al die ander bundels net repetisies vir Die twaalfde letter, wat in sy vaardigheid en suiwerheid die kroon span op ’n lang en produktiewe digterskap.

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