The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry: 1

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There's an interesting focus on ballads and other anonymous verse; but, with a few exceptions, I was less convinced by the rather haphazard selection of verse in translation. In fact, we might well have used as an epigraph for the book Joseph Brodsky's stirring affirmation that if art teaches us anything it is that the human condition is private. Maybe great American poetry is a bit underrepresented, but all in all this is a very earthy, exhilarating collection of some of English poetry's best short lyrics (with some translations from other traditions). Which brings me, in conclusion, to the kit bag - which might have been the title of The School Bag . May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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Since Ted had done selections of Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson, he let himself loose with them, as I did in the selection of Wordsworth and poems from the Irish; and we allowed heavier representa- tions for Blake, Lawrence and Whitman than would be usual in British or Irish anthologies. But now, simply by reason of age and experience, Ted and I had encountered much work we wished we had encountered earlier, when we were at school.while the last one is a chorus from Dryden's Secular Masque , which ends: "Tis well an old age is out / And time to begin a new". Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. There was, however, something official-sounding about the book that was named on our first Faber contract.

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We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). It can become the eye of a verbal needle through which the growing person can pass again and again until it is known by heart, and becomes a path between heart and mind, a path by which the individual can enter, repeatedly, into the kingdom of rightness.

His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers.