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Love Poems by WASHINGTON PETER
Category: Poetry & Plays
A collection of poems about love and romance by famous poets from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Love Poems by Everyman Staff; Peter Washington; World Collect Staff
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Pocket Poets Ser.
"It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a univers ...Show more
Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband ...Show more
Mozart's Letters by Michael Rose; Peter Washington (Editor); W. A. Mozart; Michael Rose (Editor)
Category: Performing Arts
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks high among letter writers of any age or occupation, and the 1200 or so surviving letters of Mozart and his family form the most fascinating correspondence by any artist of the 18th century or earlier. This volume includes letters from his father, a dominant but loving paren ...Show more
Persian Poems by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Still little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider religious and philosophical context of Islam. Omar, Rumi, ...Show more
Poems of Food and Drink by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most peopleâe(tm)s lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beve ...Show more
Prayers and Meditations by Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The pieces in this volume are taken from all religions and traditions with the purpose of providing material for prayer and meditation. They are arranged in seven sections following the Canonical Hours of the Chruch: Matins, Prime, Tierce, Sext, Nones, Vespers and Compline. Each section gathers poems an ...Show more
Rumi: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us ...Show more
Rumi Poems by Peter Washington
Category: CH Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed in less than thirty years. The main key to Rumi's ...Show more
Sanditon and Other Stories (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen; Peter Washington (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman Library Classics Ser.
In time for the highly-awaited TV series, a new edition of Jane Austen's delightful final work, set in a newly established seaside resort with a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators In the final months of Jane Austen's life, she began work on a new novel about social drama in the small seasi ...Show more