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Anna Akhmatova: Poems by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
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.
Auden: Poems by W.H. Auden
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: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One of Engl ...Show more
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by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime.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.
Burns : Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems by Robert Burns
Category: Gift | Series: Pocket Poets Ser.
In his short life, Robert Burns forged for himself a reputation as a poet and songwriter that has never been eclipsed. Today, more than 200 years after his death, his verse remains among the most popular in the world. Best known for his dialect lyrical verse on nature, love, patriotism and rural life, a ...Show more
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.
C.P. Cavafy: Poems by C P Cavafy
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the taboos of his time surrounding homoerotic desire ...Show more
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
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: 60th Anniversary Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
"Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."--Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was "Pictures of the Gone World"--the only book of his own poems th ...Show more