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River Poems by Henry Hughes (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
An anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations--the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China--and ...Show more
Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Translator)
Category: Education | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet--the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his ho ...Show more
Rumi: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us ...Show more
Rumi Poems by Peter Washington
Category: CH Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed in less than thirty years. The main key to Rumi's ...Show more
Rumi: Unseen Poems by Rumi
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Rumi- Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz. The thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi was trained in Sufism ...Show more
SOLITUDE TC by CIURARU CARMEL
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and despair, reflections on mind and soul, and meditations recorded in the stillness of the night. Poets can be ...Show more
Sleep and Dreams by Peter Washington
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waki ...Show more
Sondheim: Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Peter Gethers (Editor); Russell Perreault (Editor)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A beautiful Pocket Poets hardcover selection of the most memorable and beloved lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim made his Broadway debut with West Side Story in 1957 at the age of twenty-seven. His remarkable and wide-ranging career has spanned more than si ...Show more
Sonnets - From Dante to the Present by John Hollander (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Featuring the lovelorn laments of Dante and Petrarch to the artful heights of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare, this anthology displays the incredible range and power of the verse form that has inspired poets across the centuries.
Tennyson Poems by Alfred Tennyson
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Often parodied as a complacent patriarch of the Victorian establishment, laureate to the royal court and the Queen's favourite living poet, Tennyson was in fact a sensitive, shy and complex character whose early life was dominated by family drama, financial ruin, melancholia and unhappy love. His first ...Show more
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel. Don Marquis's famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former l ...Show more