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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
Detective Stories by Peter Washington
Category: Short Stories | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Now, in the appealing and collectible Pocket Classics format, an anthology of beloved, classic detective stories--riveting and irresistibly addictive tales of crimes and those who unravel them. Beginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its w ...Show more
Dickinson - Poems by Emily Dickinson
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Poems: Dickinson contains poems from The Poet's Art, The Works of Love, and Death and Resurrection, as well as an index of first lines. The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content.
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.
Eugene Onegin and Other Poems by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the R ...Show more
French Poetry : From Medieval to Modern Times by Patrick (EDT) McGuinness
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Friendship Poems by Peter Washington
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A companion to Love Poems and Erotic Poems, this selection draws on literature of many periods and languages to illuminate aspects of friendship, ranging from social acquaintance through personal devotion to estrangement and antipathy.
Frost: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Robert Frost
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken ...Show more
GASOLINE AND THE VESTAL LADY ON BRATTLE by CORSO GREGORY
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso's individual (therefor ...Show more