Literature & literary studies

'The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular...

'We've got nothing to learn from anyone. We are who we are. We do what we do. No-one else can touch us' - except, that is, the horrific past of a c...

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-ima...

About the Author Ronald Harwood came to England from South Africa in 1951 and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was an actor for se...

An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, i...

Review Fizzes with intelligence, insight and mordant wit...every firework in the script goes off with the requisite bang. -- Financial Times blis...

Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more coll...

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark 'One of the most exciting, n...

Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays ...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how ...

'The best criticism renews our interest in an author, and that is what Mr Eliot has done in his remarkable essay which prefaces his own selection f...

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of ...

The central character of Alan Ayckbourn's new play is Susan, a parson's wife, 'one of the most moving and devastating that he has created...' Robin...

Product Description This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptatio...

Ezra Pound Selected Poems, 1908-1959

Product Description Marriage consists of two sequences of poems. The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his mus...

Hear what I have to say about the cherry orchard, because it is mine. I say bring it down, tear it down. Smash it down and tear it down. Watch, wat...

Product Description In 2002 Vernon Scannell wrote the following: 'It has been my firm belief since I first began to attempt the art of poetry that...

Product Description Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his unique voice combining meditative specu...

Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fierce and fearless, Simon Gray's voice was uniquely his own - intelligent, probing and often...

Frank's got the interview; it's his big break. He just has to convince two formidable women from the corporation and he'll have his chance to get b...

In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the e...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reacti...

Product Description In December 2000, Pumla Lolwana pulled her three children close to her body and stepped in front of a train on the railway tra...

About the Author Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840. He was one of the most renowned poets and novelists in English literary history. Hardy w...

See? All we need is... a map and... some kind of plan. This overcoat is neutral darling, neither Bolshevik nor Menshevik. Just essence of Prole. ...

The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists. In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera pr...

Various Voices is the only collection of Harold Pinter's prose, poems and political writing to span his career. This new edition includes a remarka...

About the Author David Greig was born in Edinburgh. His plays include Europe, The Architect, The Speculator, The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the W...

Have you grown hard? Is that it? You were never hard then, you know. Just two spoiled daughters. Two little, selfish daughters. Two unemancipated d...

About the Author John Byrne was born in Paisley in 1940. He worked as a 'slab boy' at AFT Stoddard, the carpet manufacturers, before going to Glas...

About the Author Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Dart, her second collection, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. H...

Book Description The New Faber Book of Love Poems, edited by James Fenton, is a glorious collection of some of the most emotive and memorable lyri...