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Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns
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Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. With Shakespeare, Burns is an icon for the UK and Scotland he is a national symbol. This features the poems and songs of that great Scots poet Robert Burns
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Poems Of Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions (1994)
Everyone should read Wilfred Owen. He is one of England's greatest war poets. He died in the final week of World War I, at the age of 25. It is tragically poignant to follow his journey through his experience of the war and the trenches, from being a patriotic young Army officer to becoming angry and bitter at the waste of it all. He produced some of the most powerful anti-war literature ever. All teenagers should read these poems, to learn the true horror of war from a man's first-hand experience.
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Prufrock And Other Observations
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Described as a "drama of literary anguish," it presents a stream of consciousness in the form of a dramatic monologue, and marked the beginning of Eliot's career as an influential poet. With its weariness, regret, embarrassment, longing, emasculation, sexual frustration, sense of decay, and awareness of mortality, Prufrock has become one of the most recognized voices in modern literature.
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Seasons In The Sun
Publisher: W H Allen (1974)
Seasons in the Sun includes brand-new, never-before-published McKuen poetry, plus some of his best poems from Listen to the Warm, Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows, Lonesome Cities, Fields of Wonder, A Man Alone, And Autumn Came and In Someone's Shadow.
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Secret Laughter
Publisher: Penguin (1965)
Many of these poems by our greatest children’s poet hold some ’secret laughter’ for you, the reader, because they came out of the way Walter de la Mare looked at things, small things like the fly at the window or big things like a storm blowing up. You are seeing them with his eyes, sharing his secrets and experiences, gathered over a lifetime of looking.
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Selected Poems By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher: Heinemann Educational (1947)
SELECTED POEMS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Edited with an Introduction and Notes by JAMES REEVES Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality
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