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  • by Anthony Thwaite
    £7.99

    Features personal poems that span a life-time as the author relives moments of childhood, or reassesses his role as son to a dying mother, or gets told how to behave by his grandson. This title is concerned with what lasts and what vanishes: dreams, memories, people and objects.

  • by Anthony Thwaite
    £15.99

    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the W H Smith Award. In Larkin at Sixty, a tribute to him on his sixtieth birthday, twenty writers came together to celebrate the man and the poet with specially written pieces.

  • by Anthony Thwaite
    £10.99

    Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clich s of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.

  • - A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1995
    by Anthony Thwaite
    £71.49 - 139.99

    This survey of contemporary British poetry from 1960-1995 provides a succinct overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal for English courses and the general reader alike. This edition has been revised to include poets who have recently come into prominence.

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