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By C. H. Sisson (editor)
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9781847771704 | 2 edition (Carcanet Pr, April 1, 2012), cover price $19.95

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Presents a collection of all of Poe's poetry along with three of his essays.
By C. H. Sisson (editor)
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9781857546965 | Carcanet Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of all of Poe's poetry along with three of his essays.
9781857541205 | Reissue edition (Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A selection of the 19th-century American poet's essays and poems.

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Product Description: This famous cross between poetry and philosophy follows Lucretius' enquiring, scientific mind as he investigates the workings of mirror images, thunderstorms and magnetism, and the significance of sleep. The poem's power lies in the tension between the brief, sensuous richness of life and Lucretius' overarching belief in an empty universe of eternally recurring elements...read more
By Lucretius and C. H. Sisson (trans)
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9781857547238 | 1 edition (Carcanet Pr, August 1, 2006), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This famous cross between poetry and philosophy follows Lucretius' enquiring, scientific mind as he investigates the workings of mirror images, thunderstorms and magnetism, and the significance of sleep.

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Product Description: The "De Rerum Natura" of Lucretius (99BC-55BC) is one of the great books of the world, a lucid explanation of physical phenomena that develops into a majestic vision of the ultimate nature of the universe. Lucretius' observations of the particularities of the world remain vividly alive across the centuries...read more
By Lucretius and C. H. Sisson (trans)
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9780415969574 | Routledge, February 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The "De Rerum Natura" of Lucretius (99BC-55BC) is one of the great books of the world, a lucid explanation of physical phenomena that develops into a majestic vision of the ultimate nature of the universe.

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Product Description: At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett. This volume includes major works: One-Way Song, and Enemy of the Stars in its two very different versions, as well as other writings that can now be seen as central to the formation of Lewis's work...read more
By Wyndham Lewis, Alan Munton (editor) and C. H. Sisson (editor)
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9780415969536 | Routledge, December 1, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett.

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Product Description: His reputation has never settled, seeing as many reversals after his death as during his life. Though read and enjoyed ny many, fewer admire him openly. This volume includes all of his poetry and his most important essays.
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9780415967372 | Routledge, March 1, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: His reputation has never settled, seeing as many reversals after his death as during his life.

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Product Description: A collection of poems by C.H. Sisson. This text shows how the author grounds his work in English landscapes, especially those of Somerset, and recalls the work of Eliot and Pound, and Hardy and Edward Thomas.
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9781857543797 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems by C.

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The story of Christopher Homm, tracing him back through the estates, meat pies, love affairs, military service in India, and his inconsequential employments in the War's aftermath.
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9781857542950 | New edition (Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The story of Christopher Homm, tracing him back through the estates, meat pies, love affairs, military service in India, and his inconsequential employments in the War's aftermath.

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Product Description: Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the understated excellence of the nineteenth century writers, called her "the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced." Her modern admirers are many, especially among the poets...read more
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9780811213271 | New Directions, June 1, 1996, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the understated excellence of the nineteenth century writers, called her "the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced.

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Features the bulk of C.H. Sisson's poetic translations. This work is drawn from two millennia and several languages.
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9781857542929 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Features the bulk of C.

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Traces half a century of C.H. Sisson's work, starting with poems written on a troopship in Bengal and ending on home ground in Somerset. Sisson's political and literary appraisals are resolutely English in stance. This book replaces 'Selected Poems' (1981) and includes the sequence, 'Tristia'.
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9781857542196 | Carcanet Pr, September 28, 1995, cover price $14.35 | About this edition: Traces half a century of C.

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Published to mark C.H. Sisson's 80th birthday, this collection of his work provides summary insights into the nature and meaning of the mental and physical worlds.
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9781857540680 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Published to mark C.

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Product Description: This is a long poem in quatrains.
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9781870612685 | Enitharmon Pr, December 15, 1993, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This is a long poem in quatrains.

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When he was twenty, C.H. Sisson found himself in Hitler's Germany, and a year later in Paris. Fifty years later, 'English Perspectives' presents his reflections on politics.
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9780856359804 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When he was twenty, C.

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9780856359088 | Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $14.95

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9780856358777 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $37.95

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Product Description: From Whitehall to a sergeants' mess in India, commuter Sevenoaks to Hitler's Berlin, pre-war Paris to working-class Bristol: this is the partial autobiography of C.H.Sisson. 'On the Lookout', concentrating on Sisson's first half-century, will surprise the readers of his poems and essays both by its candour and reticence...read more
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9780856357589 | Carcanet Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From Whitehall to a sergeants' mess in India, commuter Sevenoaks to Hitler's Berlin, pre-war Paris to working-class Bristol: this is the partial autobiography of C.

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Poems deal with consciousness, sleep, knowledge, nature, death, religion, the past, conscience, satire, and language
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9780856357107 | Carcanet Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with consciousness, sleep, knowledge, nature, death, religion, the past, conscience, satire, and language

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The squalid, morally imperfect life of an English laborer unfolds in reverse, together with the stages of physical and spiritual impoverishment inflicted on him by a civilization of loss and failure
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9780856355677 | Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: The squalid, morally imperfect life of an English laborer unfolds in reverse, together with the stages of physical and spiritual impoverishment inflicted on him by a civilization of loss and failure

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Product Description: Though she was largely overshadowed by her male contemporaries, Christina Rosetti is now considered one of the most important poets of the Victorian era. This volume of selected works contains a wide range of her most important poems plus an early prose work Maude, A Story for Girls...read more
By C. H. Sisson (editor)
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9780856355332 | Reissue edition (Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1985), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Though she was largely overshadowed by her male contemporaries, Christina Rosetti is now considered one of the most important poets of the Victorian era.

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Poems deal with nature, religion, death, childhood, war, love, destiny, the past, friendship, and hope
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9780856354984 | Carcanet Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with nature, religion, death, childhood, war, love, destiny, the past, friendship, and hope

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9780856354656 | Humanities Pr, June 1, 1984, cover price $8.50

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9780856353932 | Carcanet Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $31.25

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9780856354212 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $14.50

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By C. H. Sisson (editor)
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9780856350948 | Carcanet Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $24.00

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