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Arthur Rimbaud Selected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud; Paul Schmidt (Translator)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Burnt out at 23, Rimbaud has become a model for the poet as wayward genius. Nevertheless, he wrote a substantial amount of lyric and dramatic verse. This volume contains all his mature output, together with several short prose works, including A Season in Hell.
Blake Poems by William Blake
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
"Blake's explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In addition there is a selection from the Prophetic Books in which the poet develops his own story of creatio ...Show more
Books And Libraries: Poems by Scrimgeour Andrew
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology that testifies to the passion books and libraries have inspired through the ages and around the worldBooks have long captured the love, imagination, even the veneration, of readers everywhere. Emily Dickinson envisions these pr ...Show more
Bronte Poems by Emily Brontë; Peter Washington
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Emily Bronte's poems throw fascinating light on both her life and her work. Many were written for inclusion in the prose epic about the mythical land of Gondal that she co-authored with her sister Anne and, although the epic is lost, the poems survive.
Buzz Words - Poems about Insects by Howard Schechter (Editor); Kimiko Hahn (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting, stinging things with which we share our planet. Many cultures have centuries-old traditions of insect poetry. I ...Show more
Byron Selected Poems by Lord Byron
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
This book contains a selection of Lord Byron's most celebrated works, including popular early lyrics such as We'll go no more a-roving and comic verse such as Beppo and A Vision of Judgement.
COMIC POEMS by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets-from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden-and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse. Comi ...Show more
Comic Verse by Peter Washington
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
This anthology of comic verse is drawn from sources which range from the Greek Anthology to the present day. Divided into thematic sections (to be determined) for case of use, it covers a wide range of forms including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets and nonsense verse. The prevailing tone is ligh ...Show more
Donne by John Donne
Category: Poetry | 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. Poems: Donne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The First Anniversary, Holy Sonnets, Divine Poems, excerpts from Paradoxes and Problem ...Show more
Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
"Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief- that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one's own experience. From the embattled far ...Show more
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late ...Show more
Erotic Poems by Everyman Staff; Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Intended to follow on from and complement Love Poems - also part of the Everyman's Pocket Poets series - this book contains a selection of erotic verse. The emphasis is on the tender, sensuous, witty and passionate aspects of erotic poetry.