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Garden Poems by John Hollander
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black and white pattern on each spine * Full cloth, flexible covers * Sewn Binders * Silk Ribbon Markers and Headbands * Gold Stamping on fron ...Show more
German Romantic Poets by Charlotte Lee
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song- the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions of the nineteenth century. In this collection, we see German Romantic poets confronting life's greatest mom ...Show more
Herbert Poems by George Herbert
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
An Anglican priest who took his calling with deep seriousness, Herbert brought to his work a religious reverence richly allied with literary and musical gifts of the highest order. His best-loved poems, from The Collar and Jordan to The Altar and Easter Wings, achieve a perfection of form and feeling an ...Show more
Hip Hops - Poems about Beer by Christoph Keller (Editor)
Category: Cook Books | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here attest to humankind's long and joyous (mostly) relationship with the world's most popular alcoholic bever ...Show more
James Merrill Poems by James Merrill
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving, personal portrait. Sophisticated, witty and ironic, his p ...Show more
Kipling: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Rudyard Kipling
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and ...Show more
Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
"The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson s poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters presented here provides a fuller picture of the eccentric ...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
Love Speaks Its Name - Gay and Lesbian Love Poems by J. D. McClatchy (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garc a Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merril ...Show more
Montale - Poems by Eugenio Montale; Jonathan Galassi (Editor, Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion ...Show more
Music's Spell - Poems about Music and Musicians by Emily Fragos (Editor)
Category: Gift | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Music may be the universal language that needs no words--the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it--but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop and Billy Collins; the wild pipes of W ...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