Selected Poems

Оскар Уайльд (1854–1900) известен в России прежде всего как автор едких сатирических пьес, эпатажного романа «Портрет Дориана Грея», увлекательных сказок и блестящих афоризмов. Однако его творчество начиналось с поэзии, когда еще студентом он получил престижную премию Оксфордского университета за поэму «Равенна» (1878), - и закончилось знаменитой «Балладой Редингской тюрьмы», написанной вскоре после освобождения из заключения. В настоящий сборник вошли избранные поэтические произведения Оскара Уйльда. Это исповедальные сонеты, трагические элегии и страстные, исполненные пылкой чувственности поэмы, в значительной степени отражающие его поэтический корпус и еще более - личность одного из самых противоречивых авторов XIX века. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.

"To celebrate 200 years since Jane Austen completed her last novel, Alison Larkin, a witty and always original voice, brings Persuasion and a delightful selection of lesser-known poems by Jane Austen to a new audience. Persuasion Seven years after Anne Elliot rejects the man she loves after a family friend persuades her that he isn't a good enough match for her, Captain Frederick Wentworth returns to England looking for a wife. Poems Austen did not take herself seriously as a poet but she did write occasional, mostly comic verses to entertain family and friends. Selected and introduced by Alison Larkin, the poems range from lines found on a piece of paper inside a tiny bag Austen gave to her niece, to «When Winchester Races»,a poem she wrote just three days before she died."

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Льюис Кэрролл (1832–1898) - английский писатель и математик, известный читателям всего мира как автор "Алисы в Стране чудес" и "Алисы в Зазеркалье". В настоящем издании публикуется поэтическое наследие Кэрролла, открывающееся поэмой "Фантасмагория" - дискуссией призрака Фантома и человека по имени Тиббетс в семи песнях. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.

This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems Reads poems and poets in the light of both Victorian and modern critical concerns Places poetry in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and ideological context Organized in terms of the Victorian anxieties of self, body, and melancholy Argues that rhyming/repetition is the major formal feature of Victorian poetry Highlights the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small poems Shows how Victorian poetry attempts to engage with the modern subject and how its modernity segues into modernism and postmodernism

Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, prose writer and poet, who has found his calling as a cleric of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. This book is the first volume of the extensive collection of Swift's best poems.

No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933). Whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death, Cavafy’s poetry makes the historical personal – and vice versa. He brings to his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity the historian’s assessing eye as well as the poet’s compassionate heart.After more than a decade of work, Daniel Mendelsohn – an acclaimed, award-winning author and classicist who alone among Cavafy’s translators shares the poet’s deep intimacy with the ancient world – is uniquely positioned to give readers full access to Cavafy’s genius. This volume includes the first-ever English translation of thirty unfinished poems that Cavafy left in drafts when he died – a remarkable, hitherto unknown discovery that remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades. With Mendelsohn’s in-depth introduction and commentary situating each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context, this revelatory new translation is a literary event – the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.