Angels Over Elsinore
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Angels Over Elsinore
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Author : Clive James
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-03-25
Angels Over Elsinore written by Clive James and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-25 with Poetry categories.
One of his most accomplished collections, Angels Over Elsinore brings together the finest poetry written between 2003–2008 by Clive James, much-loved broadcaster, poet and author of Unreliable Memoirs. From reminiscences of his Australian childhood and elegies for friends and family, to hilarious observations on the state of the language in the twenty-first century and reflections on art, metaphysics, science and faith, Angels Over Elsinore is simultaneously witty, passionate and provocative. Fired by the same energy and rigorous intelligence as his acclaimed prose, the verse of Clive James displays a breathtaking range – but for all its dazzling variety, one theme sings through: his inexhaustible fascination with fellow humans. 'Touching, elegant and insightful' – Manchester Evening News Clive James (1939–2019) was a broadcaster, critic, poet, memoirist and novelist. His acclaimed poetry includes the collection Sentenced to Life and a translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy, both Sunday Times bestsellers. His passion for and knowledge of poetry are distilled in his book of criticism on the subject, Poetry Notebook, and, written in the last year of his life, his personal annotated anthology of favourite poems, The Fire Of Joy. Praise for Clive James: 'He will be seen, I think, as one of the most important and influential writers of our time' – Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times 'Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive' – A.S. Byatt, critic and author of Possession: A Romance 'Clive James is a true poet' – Peter Porter, London Review of Books
Nefertiti In The Flak Tower
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Author : Clive James
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Nefertiti In The Flak Tower written by Clive James and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Poetry categories.
“Clive James is more or less the only living poet who manages to be both entertaining and moving.”—Edward Mendelson Clive James’s renown as an internationally celebrated poet continues to expand, and there is no stronger evidence for this than Nefertiti in the Flak Tower, a collection “steeped in the lessons of Philip Larkin and W.B. Yeats” (London Times). Here, his polymathic learning and technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever; the effect is to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader gratefully sinks, knowing they are in the presence of a master. The most obvious token of that mastery is the book’s breathtaking range of theme: there are moving elegies, a meditation on the later Yeats, a Hollywood Iliad, and odes to rare orchids, wartime typewriters, and sharks—as well as a poem on the fate of Queen Nefertiti in Nazi Germany. Despite the dizzying variety, James’s poetic intention becomes increasingly clear: what marks this new collection is his intensified concentration on the individual poem as a self-contained universe. Poetry is a practice he compares (in “Numismatics”) to striking new coin, and Nefertiti in the Flak Tower is a treasure chest of one-off marvels, with each poem a twin-sided, perfect human balance of the unashamedly joyous and the deadly serious, “whose play of light pays tribute to the dark.”
Opal Sunset
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Author : Clive James
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-03-18
Opal Sunset written by Clive James and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-18 with Poetry categories.
Selecting the very best of his work from over fifty years, Opal Sunset demonstrates Clive James as one of the most versatile and accomplished poets of the past half-century. Whether dealing in the comic set-piece or surreal excursion, or managing serious subject matter with fluency and apparently effortless style, the poetry of Clive James dazzles with its technical skill and thematic scope. As a TV critic on Fleet Street and later a broadcaster in his own right, he achieved such fame for writing the way he spoke that his poetry was regarded as an idiosyncratic sideline, as if no celebrity could write worthy verse. In his later years, however, his accumulated poetic output became impossible to ignore. His later poems about the tragedy that struck his mother and father deal honestly with regret and mark his maturity as a poet – and evoke touching nostalgia for his homeland, Australia. A treasure to return to, Opal Sunset collects verse written 1958–2008 and presents Clive James, poet, at his very best. Clive James (1939–2019) was a broadcaster, critic, poet, memoirist and novelist. His acclaimed poetry includes the collection Sentenced to Life and a translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy, both Sunday Times bestsellers. His passion for and knowledge of poetry are distilled in his book of criticism on the subject, Poetry Notebook, and, written in the last year of his life, his personal annotated anthology of favourite poems, The Fire Of Joy. Praise for Clive James: 'He will be seen, I think, as one of the most important and influential writers of our time' – Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times 'Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive' – A.S. Byatt, critic and author of Possession: A Romance 'Clive James is a true poet' – Peter Porter, London Review of Books
The Oxford Companion To Modern Poetry In English
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Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05-23
The Oxford Companion To Modern Poetry In English written by Jeremy Noel-Tod and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Collected Poems 1958 2015
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Author : Clive James
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Collected Poems 1958 2015 written by Clive James and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Poetry categories.
The “technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems” (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume. The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awards for decades. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life have brought him an even wider readership; some, such as “Japanese Maple” (first published in The New Yorker), became global news events upon their publication. In this first collected volume of poetry, James makes his own selection from over fifty years’ work in verse: from his early satires to his late poems of valediction, he proves himself to be as well-suited to the intense demands of the short lyric as to those of the comic excursion. Collected Poems places James’s effortless fluency, his breath-taking thematic range, and his emotional power on full display—and will burnish his reputation as one of the most accomplished of our contemporary poets.
Collected Poems
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Author : Clive James
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-04-21
Collected Poems written by Clive James and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Poetry categories.
Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as 'Japanese Maple' (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news events upon their publication. In this book, James makes his own rich selection from over fifty years' work in verse: from his early satires to these heart-stopping valedictory poems, he proves himself to be as well suited to the intense demands of the tight lyric as he is to the longer mock-epic. Collected Poems displays James's fluency and apparently effortless style, his technical skill and thematic scope, his lightly worn erudition and his emotional power; it undoubtedly cements his reputation as one of the most versatile and accomplished writers.
The River In The Sky A Poem
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Author : Clive James
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-16
The River In The Sky A Poem written by Clive James and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Poetry categories.
In this deracinated age appears a miraculous epic that pays homage to Dante and Camus. “Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time,” writes Clive James in his epic poem, The River in the Sky. What emerges from this lamentation is a soaring epic of exceptional depth and overwhelming feeling, all the more extraordinary given its appearance in an age when the heroic poem seems to have disappeared from contemporary literature. Among James’s many talents is his uncanny ability to juxtapose references to early twentieth-century poets with “offbeat humor and flyaway cultural observations” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), or allusions to the adagio of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony contrasted with references to “YouTube’s vast cosmopolis.” Whether recalling his Australian childhood or his father’s “clean white headstone” in a Hong Kong cemetery, James’s autobiographical epic ultimately helps us define the meaning of life.
The River In The Sky
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Author : Clive James
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2018-09-06
The River In The Sky written by Clive James and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Poetry categories.
A soaring autobiographical poem, meditating on death and celebrating life, from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.
Spitting On Diamonds
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Author : Clyde H. Hogg
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2005
Spitting On Diamonds written by Clyde H. Hogg and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Biography of early twentieth-century baseball pitcher, Bradley Hogg"--Provided by publisher.
A Brilliant Coup
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Author : Søren Jakobsen
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2022-09-23
A Brilliant Coup written by Søren Jakobsen and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-23 with Fiction categories.
Early in the morning in Copenhagen a petrol tanker, hijacked by a young girl, is set on fire, melting the high-voltage cables carrying electricity, blacking out Copenhagen and causing total chaos on the roads. The resultant confusion is used by a motorcycle gang who carry out seven bank robberies and escape with the money. The power failure also means that a passenger plane from the Soviet fails to make a stopover at Copenhagen Airport and flies directly to Heathrow, arriving an hour ahead of schedule... Meanwhile, on Heathrow conditions are also chaotic. A threat to bomb Terminal 2 makes it necessary for the police to X-ray passengers' luggage. This could be disastrous for one of the Russians on the place, a diamond courier from the Soviet Almaz concern... In Denmark, the police struggle to clear up the bank robberies without knowing that they are simply a part of the world's biggest diamond theft masterminded by the defectors... A Brilliant Coup indeed! Søren Jakobsen is an award-winning Danish journalist and author. Together with his colleague Jakob Andersen, Søren Jakobsen won the Cavling Prize in 1977 for a series of articles about the Defense Intelligence Service's illegal use of espionage. In 1981 he received the Poe Prize for his crime novel "A Brilliant Coup". In addition to his critically acclaimed detective stories, Søren Jakobsen has published the documentary books "Danish Dynasties" (2007) and "The LEGO Legacy" (2008).