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PAROLES by Jacques Prevert
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Poets
In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground, Paroles met with enormous success, and there were severa ...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
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
Poe : Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
Poe's poems have been memorized and recited by millions. Among his best-loved works are "The Raven" with its hypnotic chant of "nevermore, " and the sensuous and lyrical "Annabel Lee." This collection includes all of Poe's most popular rhymes.
Poems by W.B. YEATS
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from every period in life, dealing with all the topics clo ...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: Baudelaire by Richard (TRN) Charles; Howard Baudelaire
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Part of a series of small hardcover volumes with silk ribbon markers and headbands and gold stamping on the front and spine, and devoted to the world's classic poets. This book includes Baudelaire's complete Fleurs du Mal and extensive selections from Paradis Artificiel and other prose poems.
Poems: Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
A collection of his chiseled, delicate, and haunting lyrics, elegies, and sonnets, including selections from the Duino Elegies and the beloved Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by J.B. Leishman. This edition also includes Rilke's acclaimed Letters to a Young Poet. (NIA) Hardback 253pp h178mm x w108 ...Show more
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 and Songs by Leonard Cohen
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genr ...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