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In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats
(1865–1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts
and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse
in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of
poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This
edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published
and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants
from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also
supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats’s poetry to date,
explaining specific references, and setting poems in their
contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both
literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems
are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or
rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological
sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived
by the poet. This first volume collects Yeats’s poetry of the
1880s, from his ambitious and extensive juvenilia (including
hitherto little-noticed dramatic poems) to his earliest published
pieces, leading to his first substantial book of verse. The
pastoral romance of classically-inflected early work like ‘The
Island of Statues’ is succeeded in these years by the Irish
mythic material that finds its largest canvas in the mini-epic
‘The Wanderings of Oisin’. In Yeats’s work through the 1880s,
an adolescent poet’s youthful absorption in Romantic poetry is
replaced by a commitment to esoteric religious speculation and
Irish political nationalism. This edition allows readers to see
Yeats’s emergence as a poet step by step in compelling detail in
relation to his literary influences – including, significantly,
the Anglo-Irish poetry of the nineteenth century. The commentary
provides an extensive view of Yeats’s developing personal,
cultural, and historical worlds as the poems gain in maturity and
depth. From the first attempts at verse of a teenage boy to the
fully accomplished writings of an original poet standing on the
verge of popular success with poems such as ‘The Lake Isle of
Innisfree’, Yeats’s poetry is displayed here in unprecedented
fullness and detail.
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats
(1865–1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts
and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse
in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of
poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This
edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published
and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants
from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also
supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats’s poetry to date,
explaining specific references, and setting poems in their
contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both
literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems
are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or
rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological
sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived
by the poet. In this second volume, the poems of Yeats’s early
maturity emerge in the contexts of his engagement with Irish
history and myth, along with nationalist politics; his increasing
involvement with ritual magic and esoteric lore; and his turbulent,
often unhappy, personal life. The poems of The Countess Kathleen
and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) reveal a poet of intense
narrative power and metaphorical resource, adept at transforming
miscellaneous sources into haunting and original poems. A major
revision of his earlier narrative, ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’,
takes place in this decade when Yeats is also taken up with the
composition of elaborate and uncanny symbolic lyrics, many of them
resulting from his love for Maud Gonne, that are finally collected
in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899). This edition makes it possible
to trace in detail Yeats’s debts to folklore and magic, alongside
his involved and often difficult private and public life, in poetry
of exceptional complexity and power.
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
is presented in full, with newly established texts and detailed,
wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the
nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems
repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This
edition of Yeats's poetry presents all his verse, both published
and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants
from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also
supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats's poetry to date,
explaining specific references, and setting poems in their
contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both
literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems
are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or
rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological
sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived
by the poet. In this third volume, Yeats's poetry of the first
decade of the twentieth century is brought into sharp focus,
revealing the extent of his efforts to re-fashion a style that had
already made him a well-known poet. All of the major modes in
Yeats's earlier work are subject to radical re-imagining in these
years, from poetic narrative founded in Irish myth, in poems such
as 'Baile and Aillinn' and 'The Old Age of Queen Maeve', to the
symbolist drama-poetry of The Shadowy Waters, here edited in its
two (completely different) versions of 1900 and 1906. In a decade
when the theatre was one of Yeats's principal concerns, his lyric
poems, which were becoming increasingly explicit in personal terms,
began to discover new intensities of conversational pitch and
mythic resonance. Poems such as 'The Folly of Being Comforted',
'Adam's Curse', 'No Second Troy', and 'The Fascination of What's
Difficult' are given close attention in this new edition, alongside
topical and epigrammatic pieces that are often passed over in
accounts of Yeats's development. The evolving complexities of
Yeats's personal and political lives are crucial to his artistic
development in these years, and the commentary gives these generous
attention, showing how the poetry both feeds upon and often
transcends the circumstances of its composition. The volume offers
strong evidence for this decade as a crucial one in Yeats's poetic
life, in which the poet created wholly new registers for his verse
as well as new dimensions for his imaginative vision.
'I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching,
unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to
define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial
obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.'
Harold Pinter, English PEN President and Literature Nobel 2005 PEN
- 'Poets, Essayists, Novelists' - was founded in London in 1921 to
promote friendship, intellectual co-operation and exchange between
writers from around the world. It has since become a worldwide
network of writers, a community extended to more than 100 countries
who for 100 years has worked to celebrate all literatures without
exception and protect freedom of expression. What was PEN's role in
shaping the very concept of human rights even before it was adopted
by the United Nations in 1948? How did PEN develop fundamental
ideas on free speech as well as the equality of languages and
literatures? This book tells the extraordinary story of how writers
from around the world placed the celebration of literature and the
defence of free speech at the centre of humanity's struggle against
repression and terror. From opposing book burning and the
persecution of writers in Nazi Germany, to supporting dissident
writers during the Cold War and campaigning for imprisoned writers
in China today, PEN has worked to safeguard against all kinds of
censorship and self-censorship. The extraordinary writers who have
been PEN cases is a history of bravery and include Federico Garcia
Lorca, Stefan Zweig, Musine Kokalari, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie,
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Anna Politkovskaya, Hrant Dink and Svetlana
Alexievich. Those writers' voices, and those of the many others who
have battled to uphold the opening phrase of PEN's Charter -
'Literature knows no frontiers' - are still very much with us.
Without them, PEN International could not have become the strong,
vibrant, active movement it is today.
Improve your use of tire imprint evidence with the work of an expert. McDonald discusses methods for examining, capturing, and recording imprints, outlines standard procedures for identification, shows how to prepare expert testimony, and provides detailed technical information helpful in identifying imprints.
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The complete first two series of the sitcom created by and starring
Chris O'Dowd following a 12-year-old boy and his imaginary friend
in a small Irish town. Young Martin (David Rawle), the youngest
member of the Moone family, has a unique outlook on life. With his
imaginary friend, Seán (O'Dowd), on hand to help him, he negotiates
everyday life and the troubles it brings.
The validity of a contract can be undermined by factors affecting
contractual consent. Issues of contractual validity frequently
arise for consideration in all types of litigation, not least
commercial disputes. This book provides practitioners and academics
with an invaluable reference tool, which will enable them to
navigate the complex issues of vitiation of contract. When
contractual disputes arise, there are a variety of vitiating
factors which may be relied on to undermine a contract's validity.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of all the factors
vitiating contractual consent from fraud, misrepresentation,
non-disclosure, and mistake, to duress, undue influence,
unconscionable bargains, and includes chapters on incapacity and
unfairness. Each chapter gives a thorough account of the law on
each of these vitiating factors, together with an overview of the
remedies available. The book's introduction considers the
theoretical foundations of the law in this area. The book will be
an invaluable reference tool for lawyers involved in all types of
contractual disputes. It will also be a useful reference for
academics and postgraduate students of commercial law.
This collection of statutes form a reference point for the
maritime, commercial and insurance litigator. It covers 35
statutes, some with a commentary and list of key cases to aid with
interpretation of the statute.
In the five volumes of poetry he has published since 1989, Peter
McDonald explores an intimately known territory that becomes
strange: pulled out of shape by history, made unfamiliar by
distance, made new by the attentive imagination. McDonald's
"Collected Poems" is a sustained meditation on place and belonging,
loss and love. The classical world is a haunting presence; the
landscape of McDonald's poems resonates with past voices, with
memories and acts of remembrance. The assured and scrupulous craft
that creates the telling detail, the unsettling depth, has made him
one of the most important Northern Irish writers of his generation.
This collection of statutes form a reference point for the
maritime, commercial and insurance litigator. It covers 35
statutes, some with a commentary and list of key cases to aid with
interpretation of the statute.
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed,
wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the
nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems
repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This
edition of Yeats's poetry presents all his verse, both published
and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants
from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also
supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats's poetry to date,
explaining specific references, and setting poems in their
contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both
literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems
are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or
rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological
sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived
by the poet. In this second volume, the poems of Yeats's early
maturity emerge in the contexts of his engagement with Irish
history and myth, along with nationalist politics; his increasing
involvement with ritual magic and esoteric lore; and his turbulent,
often unhappy, personal life. The poems of The Countess Kathleen
and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) reveal a poet of intense
narrative power and metaphorical resource, adept at transforming
miscellaneous sources into haunting and original poems. A major
revision of his earlier narrative, 'The Wanderings of Oisin', takes
place in this decade when Yeats is also taken up with the
composition of elaborate and uncanny symbolic lyrics, many of them
resulting from his love for Maud Gonne, that are finally collected
in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899). This edition makes it possible
to trace in detail Yeats's debts to folklore and magic, alongside
his involved and often difficult private and public life, in poetry
of exceptional complexity and power.
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed,
wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the
nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems
repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This
edition of Yeats's poetry presents all his verse, both published
and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants
from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also
supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats's poetry to date,
explaining specific references, and setting poems in their
contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both
literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems
are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or
rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological
sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived
by the poet. This first volume collects Yeats's poetry of the
1880s, from his ambitious and extensive juvenilia (including
hitherto little-noticed dramatic poems) to his earliest published
pieces, leading to his first substantial book of verse. The
pastoral romance of classically-inflected early work like 'The
Island of Statues' is succeeded in these years by the Irish mythic
material that finds its largest canvas in the mini-epic 'The
Wanderings of Oisin'. In Yeats's work through the 1880s, an
adolescent poet's youthful absorption in Romantic poetry is
replaced by a commitment to esoteric religious speculation and
Irish political nationalism. This edition allows readers to see
Yeats's emergence as a poet step by step in compelling detail in
relation to his literary influences - including, significantly, the
Anglo-Irish poetry of the nineteenth century. The commentary
provides an extensive view of Yeats's developing personal,
cultural, and historical worlds as the poems gain in maturity and
depth. From the first attempts at verse of a teenage boy to the
fully accomplished writings of an original poet standing on the
verge of popular success with poems such as 'The Lake Isle of
Innisfree', Yeats's poetry is displayed here in unprecedented
fullness and detail.
Commercial litigators frequently need to assess whether a
disputed contract is valid. This book provides practitioners with
an invaluable reference tool, which will enable them to navigate
the complex issue of vitiation of contract.
As litigators are aware, when contractual disputes arise, many
types of vitiation listed will be argued together or as
alternatives to one another. This book provides a comprehensive
examination of all the factors vitiating contractual consent from
fraud, misrepresentation, non-disclosure, and mistake, to duress,
undue influence, unconscionable bargains, and includes chapters on
incapacity and unfairness. Finally, the book considers related
topics, remedies and the philosophical foundations of the law in
this area.
The book will be an invaluable reference tool for lawyers
involved in contractual disputes, especially those preparing a case
dealing specifically with the factors vitiating contractual
consent. It will also be a useful reference for academics and
postgraduate students of commercial law.
Peter MacDonald Eggers QC is an established and highly respected
silk at 7KBW. He regularly appears before the Commercial Court and
the Court of Appeal and in commercial and international
arbitrations. He has published widely and teaches at University
College London.
The poems in The Gifts of Fortune, Peter McDonald's seventh book of
poems, cover a spectrum of personal history. They go to Belfast,
Oxford, and further afield; in time they visit the poet's pasts,
his now, his possible futures. Autobiographical detail abounds:
McDonald's experiences (as a workingclass boy in Belfast, who
dreams of leaving, and a middleaged Oxford don, who dreams of going
back) are filtered through a deep instinct for poetic tradition. At
the heart of the book are two sequences: one, 'Mud', in which
family, professional, and literary histories are combined in
strictly formal, but personally unguarded, reflections on poetry,
class, and privilege; and another, 'Blindness', where a series of
tenline units test poetic form to (and beyond) breaking-point, in a
meditation on family and suffering, disappointment and hope. Other
poems return to themes of wealth and poverty, love and loss, and
the alienation and puzzlement of age. Throughout the book, form is
ghosted by the formless, hovering just beyond the frame; and
Fortune vies with Fate, quite another force.
The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon,
and Peter McDonald's new verse translations offer the major modern
account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry. The
thirty-three 'hymns' are poetic accounts of ancient Greek gods,
including Apollo, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Zeus, and Poseidon. Some of
the poems are micro-epics in their own right, recounting the lives
and affairs of the divine; taken together, they form a meditation
on the primal themes of love, war, betrayal, desire, and paternity,
and contemplate the dangerous proximity of gods and men. The book
includes a new translation of the 'Life of Homer', a narrative
incorporating the shorter poems known as Homer's Epigrams,
attributed to Pseudo-Herodotus. Two appendices provide verse
translations of episodes from Homer's Odyssey and Hesiod's
Theogony, while McDonald gives fresh versions throughout of
relevant passages from Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and other
Greek poets. The accompanying notes and commentaries on the poems
are the most generous and authoritative of any translation. This
book revives an ancient classic for the twenty-first century.
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