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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
Rumi: Unseen Poems by Rumi
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Rumi- Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz. The thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi was trained in Sufism ...Show more
SOLITUDE TC by CIURARU CARMEL
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and despair, reflections on mind and soul, and meditations recorded in the stillness of the night. Poets can be ...Show more
Sleep and Dreams by Peter Washington
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waki ...Show more
Sondheim: Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Peter Gethers (Editor); Russell Perreault (Editor)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A beautiful Pocket Poets hardcover selection of the most memorable and beloved lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim made his Broadway debut with West Side Story in 1957 at the age of twenty-seven. His remarkable and wide-ranging career has spanned more than si ...Show more
Sonnets - From Dante to the Present by John Hollander (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Featuring the lovelorn laments of Dante and Petrarch to the artful heights of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare, this anthology displays the incredible range and power of the verse form that has inspired poets across the centuries.
Tennyson Poems by Alfred Tennyson
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Often parodied as a complacent patriarch of the Victorian establishment, laureate to the royal court and the Queen's favourite living poet, Tennyson was in fact a sensitive, shy and complex character whose early life was dominated by family drama, financial ruin, melancholia and unhappy love. His first ...Show more
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel. Don Marquis's famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former l ...Show more
The Language of Flowers by Jane Holloway (Editor)
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A uniquely international anthology--in a beautiful pocket-sized hardcover--that explores the richly symbolic expressiveness of flowers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Floral symbols adorn the earliest poetry, and over the centuries they became ...Show more
Villanelles by EVERYMAN
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeated lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle has fascinated poets ever since it was introduced almost two centuries ago. Many well-known names in the past have tried their hand at it, and the villanelle is enjoying a re ...Show more
Walt Whitman : Poems by Walt Whitman
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Whitman contains forty-two of the American master's poems, including "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, " "Song of Myself, " "I Hear America Singing, " "Halcyon Days ...Show more
War Poems by John Hollander
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
In EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS series, this gift book with silk ribbon markers is an anthology of over one hundred poems encompassing the entire spectrum of feelings about war: pride, compassion, courage, anger, fear, excitement, anguish, even laughter. The poets range from Horace and Virgil to Stev ...Show more