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Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams (1919-2017)

journalist, editor-in-chief, poet, opinion journalist, editing staff

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Tell freedom
The Coyaba Chronicles
The Black experience in the 20th century
The view from Coyaba
This island now
A night of their own
Jamaica
Wild conquest
Venok Maǐklu Udomo
Mine boy
The Path of Thunder
Dark testament
Return to Goli
Je ne suis pas un homme libre
Dark treatment ...
"Crackling day" ; "The toilet" ; "A chip of glass ruby" in Somehow Tenderness Survives edited by Hazel Rochman
The world of mankind
A blackman speaks of freedom!
Sándor Petőfi
Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849)

poet, translator, actor

  • Fasori Gimnázium, Piarist Gymnasium of Budapest

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Sándor Petöfi by himself
John the valiant
Petőfitől, Petőfiről
The apostle ; Childe John ; Simple Steve ; Cypress leaves from the grave of dear Ethel
Selections from poems
Bánk bán
Poèmes révolutionnaires, 1844-1849
Rebel or revolutionary?
Alexander Petöfi
Az apostol
Sándor Petőfi
Petőfi Sándor
Selections from the poems of Alexander Petőfi
Összes költeményei
Összes költėményei
Selections from poems
Sándor Petʺofi
Petőfi Sándor összes prózai művei és levelezése
Translation from Alexander Petöfi
Összes költėményei
Sixty poems
Petőfi Sándor összes művei
Nemzeti dal =
Petőfi
Libertad, amor
Anyám tyúkja
Dalaim
Bettelsack und Freiheit
Gems from Petofi and other Hungarian poets
Alexander Petʺofi's Dichtungen
Bolond istók
Libero kaj amo
A helység kalapácsa, hösköltemény négy énekben
Vers és próza
Sándor Petőfi by himself
Tündérálom
John the valiant
Petőfi
Sándor Petöfi, 1823-1849
Petof̋i
Gems from Petőfi and other Hungarian poets
Összes költeményei
Li͡u︡bovʹ i svoboda
Anyám tyúkja
Sándor Petőfi
Ujabb költeményei
János vitéz
The apostle, a narrative poem, 1848
Stikhotvoreni︠i︡a
Lirai költmények, 1842-1849
Tapshurulmighan khătlăr
Válogatott költemények
Petőfi Sándor válogatott költeményei
Petőfi levelei
Childe John
Zindagī va ashʻār-i Shandur Pitufi
Petőfi Sándor összes prózai müvei és levelezései
János vitéz
A helység kalapácsa
Petőfi Sándor összes költeményei, 1842-1846
Petőfi Sándor összes művei
A két bolond Istók
Nemzeti dal
Petőfi Sándor összes költeményei
Selections from poems
Rebell oder Revolutionär?
Útirajzok
Bolond Istók
A forradalmár Petöfi
Munkái
Petőfi Sándor összes költeményei
Ibolyak
Lirai költmények, 1842-1849
Petőfi Sándor újabb költeményei, 1847-1849
Dalaim
A hóhér kötele
Sándor Petöfi zum 150
Petöfi, 1823-1973
Összes költeményei
Az apostol
Petőfi költeményei
Rebel or revolutionary ?
Munkai
PETŐFI SÁNDOR ELBESZÉLŐ KÖLTEMÉNYEI
PETŐFI SÁNDOR ELBESZÉLŐ KÖLTEMÉNYEI
Petőfi Sándor összes művei
Bolond ist ok
Dichtung, nach dem Ungrischen in eignen wie fremden uebersetzungen gesammelt
Ibolyák
Mi-shire Shandor Peṭefi
Költeményei
Ubrani poeziï
Szerelmes versei
Petőfiösszes Költeményei
Összes művei
Petöfi Sándor összes költeményei
Petőfi almanach
Bolond istók
Összes versei
Összes költėményei
Gedichte
Költeményei
Egy gondolat bánt engemet--
Czipruslombok etelke sírjáról
Szilaj Pista
A helység kalapácsa
János vitéz
Petőfi levelei
Petőfi Sándor összes prózai művei és levelezése
Petőfi Sándor összes költeményei
Vers és próza
Petőfi
Lyrische Gedichte
Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020)

professor, poet, dramaturge

  • University of Cambridge, University of Sussex

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The Zea Mexican diary, 7 Sept 1926-7 Sept 1986
The Zea Mexican Diary
Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey
Nanny, Sam Sharpe, and the struggle for people's liberation
Middle passages
Ancestors
Masks
The arrivants
Black + blues
The development of Creole society in Jamaica, 1770-1820
Other exiles
The Arrivants
X/self
Sun poem
Odale's choice
The Development of Creole Society, 1770-1820
Roots
Sun poem
X/Self
History of the voice
Mother poem
LX the Love Axe/l
Roots
DS (2)
Third world poems
Elegguas
The Lazarus Poems
DS (2)
Words need love too
Rights of passage
Dreamstories
The arrivants
Words Need Love Too
Jamaica Poetry
Born to slow horses
The Zea Mexican diary
Odale's choice
Days & nights
Jah music
Afternoon of the status crow
Islands
Elegguas
Contradictory omens
Jamaica poetry, a checklist
Contradictory omens
Sappho Sakyi's meditations
Word making man
Barbados poetry, ?1661-1979
Four plays for primary schools
Rights of passage
Iouanaloa
Rights of Passage
Jamaica poetry: a checklist
Black & blues
Barabajan Poems 1492-1992
Masks-
Ark
Trench Town rock
Barabajan poems 1492-1992
English in the Caribbean
Islands
DS (2)
Our ancestral heritage
Islands
Rights of passage
Our ancestral heritage
Folk culture of the slaves in Jamaica
National language poetry
Dreamstories
Kumina
Jah music
Folk culture of the slaves in Jamaica
Golokwati
MR (Magical Realism)
Iouanaloa
Liviticus
Gods of the middle passage
Born to Slow Horses
LX Vol. 1
La unidad submarina
The poet and his place in Barbadian culture
Rights of passage
Shar
Third World poems
LX Vol. 2
Creolization
Kamau monograph
People Who Came
Strange Fruit
Los danzantes del tiempo
Kamau monograph
Three Caribbean poets on their work
Ark
Dream rock
Black + blues
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

poet

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The Letters of Christina Rossetti
Called to be saints
The poetical works of Christine Georgina Rossetti
A Treasury of Christmas Classics
The Evil Image
Goblin market
A Treasury of Christmas Classics
Maude
Sing-song
Poems
Color
What is pink?
The complete poems of Christina Rossetti
The Norton Anthology of English Literature -- Seventh Edition -- Volume 2B --The Victorian Age
Selected prose of Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market
Goblin market
Poems and prose
Reflected lights from "The face of the deep;"
The caterpillar
The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Verses
Time flies
Fly away, fly away over the sea
Doves and Pomegranates
Goblin market and other poems
Goblin Market
Poems
Doves and pomegranates
The skylark
Christina Rossetti
Great Conversations 2
COMMONPLACE
Selected Poems
Red Sky
Sing-song, a nursery rhyme book, and other poems for children
Speaking Likenesses
Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market: The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems
A choice of Christina Rossetti's verse
Sing-song ; Speaking likenesses ; Goblin market
Poems
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti
New poems by Christina Rossetti
Poems
Christina Rossetti
The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
The face of the deep
Rossetti
Poems of Christina Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite Poetry
Dante, the Poet Illustrated Out of the Poem
The face of the deep
Selected Poems (Everyman's Pocket Poets)
Called to be saints
Love poems
English Victorian Poetry
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Poems
What is pink?
POETICAL WORKS-ROSSETTI C
Goblin Market The Prince's Progress and Other Poems
The Skylark
A choice of Christina Rossetti's verse
The works of Christina Rossetti
Verses
The Complete Poems
Poems and Prose
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Goblin market
Goblin Market
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Remember Me When I Am Gone Away (Inspirational)
Poems of Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti (Illustrated Poets)
Blooming Beneath the Sun
Goblin Market
Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti in Poetry and Prose
Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems
The letters of Christina Rossetti
Commonplace, a tale of to-day
The Poetical Works Of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Hurt no living thing
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Seek and find
Selected poems
The poetical works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Prayers of Christina Rossetti
Goblin market
New poems
Letter and spirit
Marchnad y Corachod
Goblin Market, the Prince's Progress, And Other Poems
A pageant
Redeeming the time
Selections from the Pre-Raphaelites
Verses
New poems
A pageant and other poems
Sing-song
The poetical works
Christina Rossetti's A pageant and other poems
Goblin Market And Selected Poems
Poems of Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Speaking likenesses
Selected poems of Christina G. Rossetti
For remembrance
Coblin Market
Verses
Sing-song, a nursery rhyme book for children
Commonplace (Hesperus Classics)
New poems by Christina Rossetti
What are heavy?
Commonplace, and other short stories
Sele cted poems of Christina Rossetti
Sing Song
The prince's progress, and other poems
Goblin market, the prince's progress and other poems, with four designs by D.G. Rossetti
Poems for children
Poetical works of Christina Rossetti
A choice of Christina Rossetti's verse
Goblin market
Verses
Prose works of Christina Rossetti
Poetical works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with memoirs and notes
What Is Pink?
Poems (Rossetti)
Familiar correspondence
Verses reprinted from Called to be saints : Time flies : The face of the deep
Family Letters Of Christina Georgina Rosseti, The (BCL1-PR English Literature)
Christina Rosetti. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Selected poems of Christina G. Rossetti
New poems by Christina Rossetti, hitherto unpublished or uncollected
Verses by Christina G. Rossetti
Speaking likenesses
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Rossetti, Christina Georgina//Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti)
Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with Some Supplementary Letters & Appendices
The prince's progress and other poems
The poetical works of Christina G. Rossetti
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti
The poetical works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Poetical works
Monna innominata
Selected poems of Christina Rossetti
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813-1851)

poet, priest, philosopher

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Gorski vijenac
Njegoševa bilježnica
izabranadela
The mountain wreath
The mountain wreath of P.P. Nyegosh,Prince-Bishop of Montenegro 1830-1851
Gorski vijenac
The ray of the microcosm
The mountain wreath of P.P. Nyegosh, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro
Lažni car Šćepan Mali
Pustinjak cetinjski
Gorskīĭ vīenac
Gorski vijenac
Spomenica Petra II Petrovića-Njegoša, vladike Rada
The mountain wreath of P.P. Nyegosh, prince-bishop of Montenegro, 1830-1851
Der Bergkranz
Pjesme
Luča mikrokozma
The mountain wreath of P. P. Nyegosh
Cjelokupna djela
The rays of microcosm
Luc̆a mikrokozma
Gorskiǐ vienats
Celokupna dela Petra II Petrovića Njegoša
Lažni car Šćepan Mali
Gorski vijenca
The rays of microcosm
Luča mikrokozma
Petar II Petrović Njegoš
Pisma Petra Petrovica Njegosa
The ray of the microcosm
Gorski vijenac vladike crnogorskoga Petra Petrovića Njegoša
Lazni car Sepan Mali
Svobodijada
Celokupna dela
Plam u plamu
Manje pjesme
Plam u plamu
Lzhet︠s︡arʹ Stepan Malyĭ
Gorski vijenac
Cjelokupna djela P.P. Njegoša
Celokupna dela Petra II Petrovića Njegoša
Vienat︠s︡ gorskiǐ
Svi︠e︡di︠e︡nii︠a︡ o rozhdenii
Gornyĭ venet︠s︡
The mountain wreath of P.P. Nyegosh
The mountain wreath of P.P. Nyegosh
Pustinjak cetinjski
Njegošu, pjesnici
Manje pjesme
Spjevovi
Noć skuplja vijeka i druge pjesme
Spomenica Petra II Petrovića-Njegoša, vladike rada
Ogledalo srpsko
Flora Thompson
Flora Thompson (1876-1947)

poet, postmaster, essayist

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The Peverel papers
Lark Rise
Modern Classics Over To Candleford Film Tie In
Lark Rise to Candleford
Still glides the stream
The illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford
Still glides the stream
Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise
The illustrated still glides the stream
Lark Rise to Candleford
The illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise
Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise To Candleford A Trilogy
Lark Rise
A country calendar, and other writings
The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford (Cresset Library)
Heatherley
A Country Calendar
A Country Calendar (Reminiscence)
Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise
Over to Candleford
Over to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford
Over to Candleford
Over to Candleford
Candleford Green
Heatherley
Over to Candleford
The Peverel papers
Candleford Green
Cooking with convenience foods
Still Glides the Stream
Candleford Green
Lark to Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise
Candelford Green
Candleford Green
Over to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford (World's Classics)
Lark Rise to Candleford
José Asunción Silva
José Asunción Silva (1865-1896)

poet

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After-Dinner Conversation
Poems
Aserrin Aserran
Silva: Poesies
De sobremesa
Obra completa
Poesia, De Sobremesa
Poesias
de Sobremesa - 544
De sobremesa, 1887-1896
Obra Completa
After-dinner conversation
Obra poetica
Poesía completa
De Sobremesa (Letras Latino Americanas)
Jose Asuncion Silva (Cuadernillos de Poesia)
Poesias completas
Poesía y prosa
Poemas
Poemas
Antología de verso y prosa
Gotas amargas
Poesias completas
El libro de versos
Poesia y prosa
Cuarenta y cinco cartas
Poesías completas, seguidas de prosas selectas
Poemas
Obra selecta
Poesías y prosas
Obras completas
Obras completas: Poesías
Poesías completas
Prosas y versos
Los mejores poemas
De sobremesa, 1887-1896
Intimidades
Cuentos modernistas
Cartas
José Asunción Silva
Poesias completas
Cuentos negros
De sobremesa
Poesia y prosa
Prosas de José Asunción Silva
Poesía y prosa
Obras completas
El libro de versos, 1883-1896
Antología poética
Poemas y Prosas
Los mejores poemas
Vejeces
Cartas
Dos nocturnos y otros poemas
Páginas nuevas
Poesías completas
Poesias completas
Poesia y prosa
Poesias completas
Prosas y versos
Poesias
Obras completas
Prosas y versos
Venantius Fortunatus
Venantius Fortunatus (0529-0608)

hagiographer, poet, composer

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Vie de Saint Martin
La vie de sainte Radegonde par Fortunat
Opera omnia
Vita di san Martino di Tours
Vite dei santi Ilario e Radegonda di Poitiers
Personal and political poems
Poems to friends
Opere
A basket of chestnuts
Poèmes
Venantius Fortunatus
Venanti Honori Clementiani Fortvnati presbyteri italici Opera poetica
Venanti Honori Clementiani Fortvnati presbyteri italici Opera pedestria
Venantii Honorii Fortunati, Pictaviensis Episcopi, Opera
Opera omnia juxta
Basket of Chestnuts
Epitaphium Vilithutae (IV 26)