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1. Academic Year (Twentieth Century
$19.94
2. Anthony Thwaite: In Conversation
 
$100.61
3. Penguin Modern Poets: A.Alvarez,
$137.14
4. Six Centuries of Verse
 
5. The deserts of Hesperides: An
$12.64
6. Further Requirements: Interviews,
 
$21.95
7. Selected Poems
 
8. THE DUST IN THE WORLD
 
9. Inscriptions
 
$3.90
10. Selected Poems 1956-1996
 
11. The English Poets: From Chaucer
 
12. THE STONES OF EMPTINESS:POEMS
13. Kricke
$10.63
14. A Move in the Weather: Poems 1994-2002
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15. Late Poems
 
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16. The Ruins of Time: Antiquarian
 
17. Victorian Voices (Oxford Poets)
 
18. Poetry 1945 to 1980 (English)
 
19. A Portion for Foxes
 
20. A Different Country

1. Academic Year (Twentieth Century Classics)
by D.J. Enright
 Paperback: 260 Pages (1985-08-22)
list price: US$5.95
Isbn: 0192818767
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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This novel involves three expatriate Englishmen teaching in Egypt toward the end of King Farouk's glittering, corrupt reign.As a portrayal of English academics abroad, the book is full of sympathetic, humorous insights.In its evocation of a time and a place, it has never been bettered. ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Enright in Egypt
Enright in his novel portrays his Egyptian characters as type characters lacking essential individuality; they carry certain race typicality. They hold no status higher than that of maimed beggars, slavish servants, stupid servants, wild savages, swindling peddlers, ruthless murderers, ugly prostitutes as if there were all the people one is likely to encounter in Enright's Egypt. He calls them primitives, beasts, barbarians, and even satanic creatures. Moreover, Academic Year contains the negative stereotypes that embody all the vices traditionally associated with the oriental female: stupidity, ignorance, materialism, sensuality, and emotional detachment to the extent of claiming that prostitution in Egypt tells one about the position of women in Egypt. In addition, all through the novel Enright is fond of comparing the `primitive' Egypt to the `civilized' England. Such a comparative method is but a disguised racial prejudice.

Enright implicitly criticizes the Egyptian stupid nationalism which gives them the right to rule their own country without any British claiming that they are lacking or even devoid of ` strength of character, independence, governing capacity, discipline, self control and even sense of responsibility.

The `bloody' riots that take place in Egypt are a point of interest for Enright to describe although he did not mention the real motives behind such demonstrations. Violence seems in his opinion, to give vent to their suppressed, perverted feelings and innate ruthlessness as if they enjoy disasters and blood.

Meanwhile, he ridicules the educational system in Egypt embodied in the feverish rituals of the final examinations, the force of oral examinations, the process of duplicating and marking the papers. He contents that such a `great' literature as the English literature should be taught to a race whose literature is next to nothing, and alludes to the great part which England has performed in the work of `enlightening modern Egypt'- a legacy of the common occidental mission to the orient.

His hostility to the Islam and the Muslims is very clear in the novel. He paints a picture which shows how Muslims are incapable of telling the truth or even of seeing it; they are fanatic and fatalistic, they are swayed by passions, instincts and unreflecting hatred of Christians and Jews. His hostility is clear from the titles of each chapter which are lines of verse from the holy Quran using them in an ironic way or as an ironic commentary on the content of each chapter.

Enright's tone has the vein of the high-handed attitude of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century European orientalism. His selection of incidents, language in narration, omission of certain details suggest attitudes and assumptions stemming from the cleverly-concealed prejudice and help to dramatize a contrast in the perceived characteristics of the race. He deliberately omits the good aspects of the Egyptian society. He fashions a technique allowing the reader only a single-faceted response towards the Egyptians. He leaves no space for the reader to comment but is commenting all through the novel. Though the novel is narrated in the third person singular, his voice is very clear in the novel.

Being a member in the Movement, Enright uses many of the aesthetics of the Movement in his novels. His attitude to the political realities of modern Egypt seems typical of the Movement, an attitude of disgust that one lives in barbarous bloody times. It is an anti-romantic novel depicting reality as it is. His disbelief in allusion and myth represents a important current of feeling within the Movement. His treatment of Egypt is concerned not with metaphysical absolutes or mythical assumptions but with hard-bitten realities and human relations. The Movement's ideology is reflected in Enright's debunking familiarizing treatment of nature; he condemns any appearance of nature-worship. The language he uses for describing landscape is extremely conventional.However, towards the middle of the novel he gets enchanted with the seascape embodied in the Mediterranean Sea. ... Read more


2. Anthony Thwaite: In Conversation With Peter Dale and Ian Hamilton (Between the Lines)
by Peter Dale, Ian Hamilton, Anthony Thwaite
Paperback: 96 Pages (1999-12)
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Asin: 0953284123
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3. Penguin Modern Poets: A.Alvarez, Roy Fuller, A.Thwaite Bk. 18 (Penguin modern poets, 18)
by Roy Fuller and Anthony Thwaite A. Alvarez
 Paperback: 144 Pages (1970-12-10)
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Asin: 0140421297
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4. Six Centuries of Verse
Paperback: 224 Pages (1985-03)
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Asin: 0423009605
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5. The deserts of Hesperides: An experience of Libya
by Anthony Thwaite
 Hardcover: 180 Pages (1969)

Isbn: 0436539500
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6. Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Reviews, 1952-85
by Philip Larkin
Paperback: 416 Pages (2002-11-04)
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Asin: 0571216145
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Further Requirements gathers together the many interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews that were omitted from Required Writing. Taken altogether this collection fills in a consistent but sometimes unexpected portrait of Philip Larkin - mordant, intolerant, generous, but always himself. It will give great pleasure to all admirers of his work. ... Read more


7. Selected Poems
by George MacBeth, Anthony Thwaite
 Paperback: 126 Pages (2003-02)
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Asin: 1900564181
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In recent years George MacBeth has sometimes seemed in danger of being forgotten. This selection, chosen from poems written when MacBeth was in his late teens to the work of his last months, will give a new generation the chance to enjoy his memorable voice. In her preface, Carol Ann Duffy writes that 'His poetry is eclectic, formally dazzling, gleefully experimental' and that this selection 'shows his generous ability to entertain, challenge and move his readers.' ... Read more


8. THE DUST IN THE WORLD
by ANTHONY THWAITE
 Paperback: 144 Pages (1994)

Isbn: 185619387X
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9. Inscriptions
by Anthony Thwaite
 Paperback: 62 Pages (1973-04-12)

Isbn: 0192118250
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10. Selected Poems 1956-1996
by Anthony Thwaite
 Paperback: 136 Pages (1998-04-10)
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Asin: 1900564556
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11. The English Poets: From Chaucer to Edward Thomas
 Paperback: 320 Pages (1974-07-29)

Isbn: 0436378108
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12. THE STONES OF EMPTINESS:POEMS 1963-66
by Anthony Thwaite
 Hardcover: 68 Pages (1967)

Isbn: 019211266X
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13. Kricke
by Anthony Thwaites
Hardcover: 75 Pages (1964)

Asin: B0000BOLC8
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14. A Move in the Weather: Poems 1994-2002
by Anthony Thwaite
Paperback: 66 Pages (2003-08)
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Asin: 1900564580
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Anthony Thwaite's new collection is both moving and funny, elegiac and playful. The personal poems span a life-time as Thwaite relives moments of childhood, or reassesses his role as son to a dying mother, or gets told how to behave by his grandson. Elsewhere he laments his old cat and conjures up a Sumerian Anthology of poets. The principal concern of the collection is what lasts and what vanishes: dreams, memories, people and objects. In this quest, he takes us with him to Italy, Siberia and Syria, and is haunted by the mystery of places 'where there are no words'. It is, however, the very craft of his finely wrought poetry and its sudden moments of sheer beauty which make palpable for the reader 'the shape of the invisible soul'. ... Read more


15. Late Poems
by Anthony Thwaite
Paperback: 20 Pages (2010-10-08)
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Asin: 1907587020
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The poet's own selection of some poems completed since his Collected Poems (published 2007). ... Read more


16. The Ruins of Time: Antiquarian and Archaeological Poems (Poetry of Place S.)
by Anthony Thwaite
 Paperback: 80 Pages (2007-06-19)
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Asin: 0907871984
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A collection of poetry dedicated to great ruins, the physical icons of a romantic engagement with the past. ... Read more


17. Victorian Voices (Oxford Poets)
by Anthony Thwaite
 Paperback: 48 Pages (1982-11)
list price: US$9.95
Isbn: 0192119370
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18. Poetry 1945 to 1980 (English)
by Anthony Thwaite, John Mole
 Paperback: 210 Pages (1983-12)
list price: US$7.95
Isbn: 0582351480
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19. A Portion for Foxes
by Anthony Thwaite
 Paperback: 56 Pages (1977-06)

Isbn: 0192118722
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20. A Different Country
by Anthony Thwaite
 Paperback: 30 Pages (2000-02)

Isbn: 1900564815
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