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Product Description: An indispensable collection of the work of one of the 19th century’s most compelling and original poets, this comprehensive edition contains all of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry and three most important essays. Reissued to coincide with the release of a major Hollywood film of the same title, it exposes Poe’s diversity and genius, from breathtakingly seductive beauty of “To Helen” to the claustrophobic horror of “The Raven...read more
By C. H. Sisson (editor)

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9781847771704 | 2 edition (Carcanet Pr, April 1, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An indispensable collection of the work of one of the 19th century’s most compelling and original poets, this comprehensive edition contains all of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry and three most important essays.

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Presents a collection of all of Poe's poetry along with three of his essays.
By C. H. Sisson (editor)

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9781857546965 | Carcanet Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of all of Poe's poetry along with three of his essays.
9781857541205 | Reissue edition (Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A selection of the 19th-century American poet's essays and poems.

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Product Description: This famous cross between poetry and philosophy follows Lucretius' enquiring, scientific mind as he investigates the workings of mirror images, thunderstorms and magnetism, and the significance of sleep. The poem's power lies in the tension between the brief, sensuous richness of life and Lucretius' overarching belief in an empty universe of eternally recurring elements...read more
By Lucretius and C. H. Sisson (trans)

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9781857547238 | 1 edition (Carcanet Pr, August 1, 2006), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This famous cross between poetry and philosophy follows Lucretius' enquiring, scientific mind as he investigates the workings of mirror images, thunderstorms and magnetism, and the significance of sleep.

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Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
By Wyndham Lewis, Alan Munton (editor) and C. H. Sisson (editor)

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9780415969536 | Routledge, December 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: First published in 2004.

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Product Description: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780415967372 | Routledge, March 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: First published in 2003.

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Product Description: A collection of poems by C.H. Sisson. This text shows how the author grounds his work in English landscapes, especially those of Somerset, and recalls the work of Eliot and Pound, and Hardy and Edward Thomas.

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9781857543797 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems by C.

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The story of Christopher Homm, tracing him back through the estates, meat pies, love affairs, military service in India, and his inconsequential employments in the War's aftermath.

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9781857542950 | New edition (Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The story of Christopher Homm, tracing him back through the estates, meat pies, love affairs, military service in India, and his inconsequential employments in the War's aftermath.

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Product Description: C. H. Sisson's Selected Poems presents a half century's work by the writer deemed "England's finest living poet" by the London Times. Sisson's poems are characterized by a mastery of speech rhythms and imagery learned from Eliot, Pound, and T...read more

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9780811213271 | New Directions, June 1, 1996, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: C.

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Features the bulk of C.H. Sisson's poetic translations. This work is drawn from two millennia and several languages.

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9781857542929 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Features the bulk of C.

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Traces half a century of C.H. Sisson's work, starting with poems written on a troopship in Bengal and ending on home ground in Somerset. Sisson's political and literary appraisals are resolutely English in stance. This book replaces 'Selected Poems' (1981) and includes the sequence, 'Tristia'.

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9781857542196 | Carcanet Pr, September 28, 1995, cover price $14.35 | About this edition: Traces half a century of C.

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Published to mark C.H. Sisson's 80th birthday, this collection of his work provides summary insights into the nature and meaning of the mental and physical worlds.

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9781857540680 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Published to mark C.

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Product Description: This is a long poem in quatrains.

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9781870612685 | Enitharmon Pr, December 15, 1993, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This is a long poem in quatrains.

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When he was twenty, C.H. Sisson found himself in Hitler's Germany, and a year later in Paris. Fifty years later, 'English Perspectives' presents his reflections on politics.

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9780856359804 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When he was twenty, C.

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Product Description: This new collection includes the best poems penned by British writer C. H. Sisson since God Bless Karl Marx!. His poems are marked by their use of rhymed quatrains, couplets, and other strict forms. The poems consider severe themes, including the old age of a man, a culture, and its institutions, and the difficulty of an comprehending an incarnate God...read more

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9780856359088 | Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This new collection includes the best poems penned by British writer C.

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Product Description: Spanning Whitehall to a sergeants' mess in India, commuter Sevenoaks to Hitler's Berlin, pre-war Paris to working class Bristol, this partial autobiography of C. H. Sisson will surprise enthusiasts of his poetry and essays both by its candour and its reticence...read more

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9780856357589 | Carcanet Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Spanning Whitehall to a sergeants' mess in India, commuter Sevenoaks to Hitler's Berlin, pre-war Paris to working class Bristol, this partial autobiography of C.

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Poems deal with consciousness, sleep, knowledge, nature, death, religion, the past, conscience, satire, and language

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9780856357107 | Carcanet Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with consciousness, sleep, knowledge, nature, death, religion, the past, conscience, satire, and language

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The squalid, morally imperfect life of an English laborer unfolds in reverse, together with the stages of physical and spiritual impoverishment inflicted on him by a civilization of loss and failure

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9780856355677 | Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: The squalid, morally imperfect life of an English laborer unfolds in reverse, together with the stages of physical and spiritual impoverishment inflicted on him by a civilization of loss and failure

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Product Description: Though she was largely overshadowed by her male contemporaries, Christina Rosetti is now considered one of the most important poets of the Victorian era. This volume of selected works contains a wide range of her most important poems plus an early prose work Maude, A Story for Girls...read more
By C. H. Sisson (editor)

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9780856355332 | Reissue edition (Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1985), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Though she was largely overshadowed by her male contemporaries, Christina Rosetti is now considered one of the most important poets of the Victorian era.

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Poems deal with nature, religion, death, childhood, war, love, destiny, the past, friendship, and hope

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9780856354984 | Carcanet Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with nature, religion, death, childhood, war, love, destiny, the past, friendship, and hope

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Product Description: Book by Sisson, C. H.

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9780856353932 | Carcanet Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $31.25 | About this edition: Book by Sisson, C.

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9780856354212 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $14.50

By C. H. Sisson (editor)

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9780856350948 | Carcanet Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $24.00

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