Product Description: “Full of big themes such as courage, greed, loyalty and obsession, The New World is still an adventure story first and foremost. . . . An entertaining homage that is deeply felt and sincere.” —The Guardian (UK)   Washed ashore after escaping Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins and his companion Natty find themselves stranded on the Gulf Coast of Texas...read more

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Philip Larkin is recognised as one of the most important writers to have emerged in Britain since the Second World War. First published in 1982, Andrew Motion’s study begins with an account of Larkin’s life and literary background and discusses his literary relationship with Hardy and Yeats and his association with the Movement. He analyses Larkin’s two novels and assesses his three mature collections. Throughout the book much reference is made to uncollected reviews and articles and occasionally to unpublished manuscripts. Rather than developing the familiar line on Larkin as an empirical and melancholy writer, Andrew Motion explores the Symbolist and transcendent element in his work, and emphasises its range and variety.

Product Description: William Faulkner's character Quentin in The Sound and the Fury repeatedly observes that "temporary" is "the saddest word of all." Despair over human impermanence and the desire to preserve what has been known and felt, even grief, reverberate at the heart of British Poet Laureate Motion's memoir of his childhood and adolescence in rural postwar England...read more

Product Description: The fourth anthology in the brilliant Bedford Square series features the very best in young British writing. In 2004 Poet Laureate Andrew Motion established a brand new creative writing course at Royal Holloway, University of London...read more

Product Description: The Mower introduces the poetry of British poet laureate Andrew Motion to American readers for the first time. This selection, chosen by Andrew Motion himself, is an outstanding representation of the poet's varied body of work elegies, sonnets, poems of social and political observation, and unsentimental poems about childhood, post-war England, and natural life composed over the course of three decades...read more

Product Description: On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry Foundation?s Neglected Masters Award. The award brings renewed critical attention to the life's work of a significant but under-recognized American poet...read more

Product Description: When Edward Thomas died in the First World War, very few of his poems had been published, but he is now recognised as one of the finest and most influential poets of the last century. Although often referred to as ‘a poet’s poet’, his writing has an almost universal appeal...read more

The third anthology in the brilliant Bedford Square series featuring the very best in young British writing

Presents an accessible way to find the rhyme or satiric lyric you need. This dictionary groups together the most satisfactory rhymes, taking stress and vowel assonance into account. It also contains an index that helps you jump straight to the word you're looking for, and various panels include examples of rhyme in action.

The second anthology in the brilliant Bedford Square series featuring the very best in young British writing

Product Description: Accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from October 14, 2004 - January 9, 2005.

Product Description: An original look at the literary reputations of some of our greatest writers whose lives and careers were cut short.

Contains profiles and critical analysis of the works for over nine hundred twentieth century poets.

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The life of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, a minor London litterateur, con man, and painter from the Regency era, is reconstructed here, revealing a con artist in search of respectability. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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