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Hugh Primas and the Archpoet
Inbunden, 1994
1741 kr
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Renowned poet Fleur Adcock here provides modern verse translations of the complete work of two of the most exciting poets of the twelfth century, Hugh Primas of Orleans and the so-called Archpoet, beside their Latin originals. Included are witty epigrams, treatments of classical themes, poems on …
Hugh Primas and the Archpoet
Av Fleur E. Adcock, Fleur Adcock
Häftad, 2005
714 kr
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Renowned poet Fleur Adcock here provides modern verse translations of the complete work of two of the most exciting poets of the twelfth century, Hugh Primas of Orleans and the so-called Archpoet, beside their Latin originals. Included are witty epigrams, treatments of classical themes, poems on …
Virgin & the Nightingale
Medieval Latin Poems
Häftad, 1983
164 kr
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Fleur Adcock’s lively translation of this selection of medieval Latin lyrics was first published in 1983, revealing many poetic treasures hidden in for centuries in scholarly obscurity. The poems are about birds – particularly the nightingale – and young women. Most are by monks or clerics, and …
Poems 1960-2000
Av Fleur Adcock
E-bok, 2011
186 kr
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Fleur Adcock is one of Britain''s most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their …
Dragon Talk
Av Fleur Adcock
E-bok, 2014
130 kr
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After the appearance of Fleur Adcock''s Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with – but was not entirely caused by – her giving up smoking. When poetry returned to her in 2003 it tended towards a sparer, more concentrated style. Dragon Talk , published …
Glass Wings
Av Fleur Adcock
E-bok, 2014
162 kr
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Fleur Adcock''s title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species -bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies -celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods, from the stick insects and crayfish of her native New Zealand to the clothes'' moths that infest her …
Land Ballot
Av Fleur Adcock
Häftad, 2015
148 kr
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A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. When …
Land Ballot
Av Fleur Adcock
E-bok, 2015
167 kr
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A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock''s grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. When …
Hoard
Av Fleur Adcock
Häftad, 2017
148 kr
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Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, …
Hoard
Av Fleur Adcock
E-bok, 2017
167 kr
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Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn’t suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, …
Mermaid's Purse
Av Fleur Adcock
Häftad, 2021
159 kr
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Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and conversations with the dead. Katherine Mansfield, …
Mermaid's Purse
Av Fleur Adcock
E-bok, 2021
246 kr
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Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and conversations with the dead. Katherine Mansfield, …
Collected Poems
Av Fleur Adcock
Häftad, 2024
312 kr
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Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their …
Collected Poems
Av Fleur Adcock
Inbunden, 2024
460 kr
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Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their …
Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems
Av Fleur Adcock
E-bok, 2024
328 kr
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Fleur Adcock (1934-2024) was one of Britain''s most accomplished poets, unmasking the deceptions of love and unravelling family lives through her poised, ironic poems. This first complete edition of her poetry was published on her 90th birthday, and updates her earlier retrospective, Poems …
Poems 1960-2000
Av Fleur Adcock
Häftad, 2000
217 kr
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Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their …
Dragon Talk
Av Fleur Adcock
Häftad, 2010
161 kr
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After the appearance of Fleur Adcock's Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with - but was not entirely caused by - her giving up smoking. When poetry returned to her in 2003 it tended towards a sparer, more concentrated style. This new collection …
Glass Wings
Av Fleur Adcock
Häftad, 2013
139 kr
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Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods, from the stick insects and crayfish of her native New Zealand to the clothes' moths that infest her …
