This is the story of poetry, from the 14th century to the present day. The author surveys the rise of English poetry and the language itself from the Black Death to Paul Muldoon and Thom Gunn. Each chapter relates the poet's life and work to the prevailing issues of the times.

The Lives of the Poets

Biographies & Memoirs

Michael Schmidt

Arts & Literature

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language. Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, love sonnets, and experimental postmodern verse that make up our lyrical canon. A comprehensive guided tour that is lively and always accessible, Lives of the Poets illuminates our most transcendent literary tradition.

Lives of the Poets

Vintage

Introduction to Fifty British Poets

Literature & Fiction

Heinemann Educ.

In Energy Services Outsourcing: Opportunities and Challenges, two seasoned industry professionals take an in-depth look at this source of new products for utility and energy companies.Although most ESO applications today focus on energy delivery and energy management, the potential for services ranges from a limited IT project to a complex internal communications network to a "virtual" company with all energy-related infrastructure outsourced.This comprehensive book highlights the best markets to target for ESO, examines the expertise and resources most valued, and discusses the role for regulation. It also points out how to avoid the potential pitfalls of being an ESO provider.

Energy services outsourcing: Opportunities and challgences

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Public Utilities Reports

Michael Schmidts anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and times. They have been chosen because they are exceptional, profound and unique in what they do to language, regardless of their subject matter or the orientation of the poet. It is a powerful reminder that in the twentieth century poems did what they have never done before, and it provides us with a unique insight into the forces that will shape the poetry of the twenty-first century.

Harvill Book of 20th Century Poetry

Poetry

Rupa

“...a passionate discourse that is at once earthy and numinous...’

The Resurrection of the Body

Smith/Doorstop Books

"The Great Modern Poets" is the perfect introduction to the twentieth and twenty-first century poets and their best poetry. Over 100 complete and unabridged poems are accompanied by a concise text that provides insight, observations, and a historical context for each poet and their work.

The Great Modern Poets

Quercus

The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the best poets and poetry since 1900

The Great Modern Poets and CD is the perfect introduction to the finest poetry of the 20th century. This ideal gift is now complete with an 80-minute audio CD featuring original recordings of 29 inspiring poems, read by their authors. Here the listener will find beautiful verse by the greatest poets of the modern era, including: W.B Yeats' The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Wallace Stevens' Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself; T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; John Betjeman's A Shropshire Lad and The Licorice Fields at Pontefract; W.H. Auden's The Shield of Achilles; Dylan Thomas' A Refusal to Mourn...; Ted Hughes' Thrushes; Sylvia Plath's Daddy; and a special full-length reading of Howl by Allen Ginsburg, among many other much-loved classics.  Accompanying the CD is a beautifully illustrated book containing over 150 complete and unabridged poems, covering Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, The War Poets, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Proud, Sylvia Plath, and many more. Each chapter comprises introductory quotations, an illustration, a biography of the poet, a selection of their key poems and simple explanations of the themes.  With an introduction that suggests ways to appreciate the poems, and a glossary that demystifies the concepts and movements of modern poetry, The Great Modern Poets and CD is an ideal welcome to the pleasures and insights poetry has to offer.

The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900

Quercus Publishing Plc

In a series of black and white images of the German landscape made between 1987 and 1997, Michael Schmidt has forged a new pictorial language to deconstruct the world he observes. Concerned with light and form, Schmidt's images contain a wealth of silver tones, a spectrum of rich greys which evolve from light to dark in mystical, imperceptible gradients. But the black and white filter is also a tool that allows Schmidt to neutralise the world, impeding the subjective perception of his viewer. It is through his editorial process, a process of montage, that Schmidt constructs an interior dialect, fashioning a self-contained world within the linear sequence of the book. Michael Schmidt was born in 1945 in Berlin. He passed away in Berlin on 24 May, 2014, a few days after the printing of NATUR. Michael Schmidt produced some of the most significant bodies of photographs in the history of the medium and is renowned for his books, most notably, the projects Waffenruhe (1987), U-NI-TY (1996), Berlin nach 45 (2005), and Lebensmittel (2012). His solo exhibitions include 'Lebensmittel' Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 / Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck 2012 / Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen 2012; 'Grey as Colour. Photographs until 2009', Haus der Kunst, Munich (2010); 'Frauen - EIN-HEIT - Menschenbilder', at the Kunstverein in der Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (2000); and 'U-NI-TY', at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Sprengel Museum, Hannover (1996). Recent group shows include 'Consumption: the Fifth Prix Pictet Shortlist', Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, London (2014) and 'The Encyclopedic Palace', 55th Biennale, Venice (2013).

NATUR

MACK BOOKS

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