Woman much missed

Moving, elegiac verse set in rural landscapes, penned by the grief-stricken Hardy after his wife's death.

The eve of st agnes

The Romantic poet's most lyrical, enchanting verse on myth, sensuality, dreams and superstition.

How to use your enemy

A seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world

A cup of sake beneath the cherry trees

Moonlight, spring blossom, a woman's hair - a medieval Japanese monk reflects on idle moments and life's fleeting joy.

On the beach at night alone

The visionary nineteenth-century American poet celebrates nature and the human spirit in these verses from Leaves of Grass

The doorman

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781250437921

Collation

388 p. ; 22 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

823 PAV t

The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful …

Transcription

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780374618599

Collation

130 p. ; 22 c

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 LER t

Minor feelings: a reckoning on race and the Asian condition

For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings". The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal i…

Days of love and rage

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781668062173

Collation

582 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

959 GOP d