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L'Allegro And Other Works
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In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked, innocent Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
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Leaves Of Grass
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In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's innovative use of free verse and the quotidian achieved his aim of reaching out to the everyday American. This edition, based on the earliest published version of 1855, features Whitman's most famous poem 'Song of Myself', an American epic inspired by his personal experiences.
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Lonesome Cities
Publisher: Random House (1968)
An album of readings and poems
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Love Poems
Part of a series: A World Book Night Book 2016
Publisher: Picador (2010)
Whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems and, always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, displays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time.
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Lysistrata
Publisher: Penguin Classics (1995)
The ancient world is gripped by a long and futile war. While the men of Athens fight in a foreign land, the women of Athens can take no more. In secret, they meet with the enemy women and form a pact. The battle moves into the bedroom. No sex for the men - unless the women get Peace.
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Michael Rosen's A-Z: The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah
Publisher: Puffin (2009)
From Agard to Zephaniah, the very best of children's poetry from the very best of children's poets appears in this wonderful and exciting anthology
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Moment To Moment
Publisher: W H Allen (1973)
the author has revised some poems, deleted a section entitled Portraits of Friends, and added a number of poems not previously published.
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Moon On The Tides:AQA GCSE Anthology
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2010)
AQA GCSE English and English Language Anthology for all students doing English Language GCSE's with the educational board AQA.
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