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Picturehouse Poems - Poems about the Movies by Harold Schechter (Editor); Michael Waters (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon ...Show more
Poems by Rainer Rilke
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets S.
This selection includes poems from all stage s of Rilke''s career, beginning with the delicate works of hi s early years, through the extraordinary poems he wrote in F rench, and concluding with his mature masterpieces such as T he Sonnets to Orpheus '
Poems about Trees by Harry Thomas (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
A unique anthology of poems--from around the world and through the ages--that celebrate trees. For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them--and poets have long chronicled the relationship. Poets from Homer and Virgil to Wordswort ...Show more
Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems and Prose is selected and edited with an introduction by W.H. Gardner.Closer to Dylan Thomas than Ma ...Show more
Poems from Greek Antiquity by Paul Quarrie (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
There is a great deal more to Greek poetry than the Iliad or the Odyssey. Shorter masterpieces abound, and the lyrical and elegiac poems, odes, and epigrams in this volume give an unparalleled sampling of them. Included here are selections from the early Greek poets - from Hesiod, Pindar and Bacchylides ...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
Poems of Gratitude by Emily Fragos (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Poems of Gratitude is a unique anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages celebrating thanksgiving in its many secular and spiritual forms. For centuries, poets in all cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the people and things of this world. The voices collected h ...Show more
Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poe ...Show more
Poems of Paris by Emily Fragos (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets - Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Robert ...Show more
Poems of Rome by Karl Kirchwey (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city - whether in person or imagination - the book is divided into sections by place. Its pages lead the reader ...Show more
Poems of the American South by David Biespiel (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as mythologized as the South, ...Show more
Poems of the Sea by J.D. McClatchy
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind