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Product Description: Part of the "Everyman" series, which includes a themed introduction and a chronology of the life and times of the author. This book contains three of James's short stories, "The Altar of the Dead", "The Real Thing" and "The Birthplace".

Product Description: Mixing poems by known authors with anonymous material - work songs and street cries, nursery jingles, graffiti, lyrics of suffering and celebration, charms and chants - Tom Paulin's anthology speaks for an alternative tradition, one that nimbly and defiantly opposes the 'Parnassian official order' which still dominates our culture...read more

Product Description: A collection of poems by Tom Paulin, who is also known as an essayist and from his appearances on television and radio. The title of the book is taken from a statement by the modernist painter Paul Klee.

Product Description: In this selection from the two-volume Plain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. Provides the only edition of The Plain Speaker available outside libraries since 1928...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Subjects as diverse as Ian Paisley's rhetoric and T.S. Eliot's anti-Semitism; poets including Elizabeth Bishop, John Clare, Louis MacNeice and Gerard Manley Hopkins; the art of criticism itself--all come under the eye of one of our most impassioned and exciting critics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The first installment of Paulin's ambitious new epic poem about World War IINo matter the Führer is unculturedhe has Heidegger sayssuch beautiful such sculpturedhands--but these are dangerous daysand Röhm is cultic now is Hitler'srighthand manso might not the philosopherbe talking in riddleslike one of our ancient warriors? --from "The Night of the Long Knives"The Invasion Handbook opens with the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, which excluded Germany from the community of nations, and with the answering but ill-fated attempt of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 to restore the torn fabric of Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books...read more

Product Description: A reprint of the classic study of language, identity, and culture in Ulster poetry.

A wide-ranging collection of essays on major authors and texts from the 16th to the 20th centuries. More than a loose gathering, it offers a series of explorations and readings in the culture of English dissent while avoiding any single plot or overarching idea.