This new addition to the elegant Library of Classic Poets series features selections from one of the best-loved poets of the early twentieth century. Elegantly packaged in a handsome edition with a satin ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addi...

These writings by David Wright collect his written conversations with friends, most of them fellow poets. Norman Nicolson, C. H. Sisson, George Barker and Charles Causley are among those included. The elegies, written in informal and direct language,...

Treatise on the "Arte of Limning" is one of the most important documents in the history of English art. Published in paperback for the first time, this edition provides a transcript of the original manuscript copy facing a modernised version, extensi...

When he was twenty, C. H. Sisson found himself in Hitler's Germany, and a year later in Paris. He was brought face-to-face with a realty of politics largely ignored by English radicals of the 1930s. He returned home at once more European and more viv...

Tadeusz Rozewicz is Poland's most popular and influential poet. Born in 1921, he belongs to the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. "What I produced is poetry for the horror-stri...

During the 1980s Michael Hamburger published both collected and selected editions of his poetry, but "Roots in the Air" is his first collection of new poems to appear for a decade. "Memorably disquieting" was one reviewer's verdict on his last collec...

Webster's Dictionary defines a "flow-chart" as a "schematic diagram... showing the progress of materials through the various stages of a manufacturing process". In this "Flow Chart", a book-length poem, John Ashbery charts the ebb and flow of life p...