The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry: 1

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Striking a balance between the familiar and (to a presumed reader) the new must be one of the major challenges for the editors of an anthology of poetry. Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and conceived of as a collection of their own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our time. The third stage is that of re-organisation, when "a person already educated in poetry meets with something new in his own time, and finds a new pattern arranging itself in consequence". A show constructed to showcase ironies great and small, Arrested Development follows a rich family whose patriarch is in jail for corruption.

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And one of the things Mrs Wilson used to repeat to the elder of them offers a good way into this discussion. Nevertheless, just to think of the kit bag is to be reminded of the thousands, perhaps millions of soldiers, who packed a volume of poetry in it as they went off to the front. Sure, “Gift of the Magi” and “The Lottery” are classics for teaching irony, but they offer little in the way of inclusive representation.What matters most in the end is the value that attaches to a few poems intimately experienced and well remembered. He grew up in the country, on a farm, in touch with a traditional rural way of life, which he wrote about in his first book Death of a Naturalist (1966). The first one in the book is very deliberately Yeats's "Long Legged Fly", which begins "That civilisation may not sink, / Its great battle lost . The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes.

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In this award-winning short story, a young man remembers his Chinese mother’s efforts to connect with him through origami. It conveyed an impression of positive certitude and imperial destiny rather than negative capability and common humanity. Both a strength and a weakness of this book is its lack of scholarly apparatus (bar a glossary) and absence of notes, which forces the reader's attention onto content rather than context, but makes follow-up reading difficult: it took me a lot of digging elsewhere to discover that the Jonson poem given here as "It is not growing like a tree" is in fact an extract from a much longer piece. As poetry anthologies go, this is a veritable treasure trove of the great and the good; a non-formulaic collection of personal favourites chosen by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. For those with the gift, it is as if they have captured the essence of the room, excavated the emotion from the audience and let it out in a glorious breaching of the night air.From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. It would be a school-book in the usual sense - the poems, for example, are grouped in ways that invite different kinds of historical and thematic reading but it would also resemble 'a school of poetry' gathered on traditional bardic lines, a memory bank, a compendium of examples.