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James Merrill Poems by James Merrill
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving, personal portrait. Sophisticated, witty and ironic, his p ...Show more
Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Biography | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
"The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson s poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters presented here provides a fuller picture of the eccentric ...Show more
Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
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Category: Classics | 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. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband ...Show more
Love Speaks Its Name - Gay and Lesbian Love Poems by J. D. McClatchy (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garc a Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merril ...Show more
Marriage Poems by John Hollander
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A sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony: courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Shakespeare to Omar Khayy m to D.H. Lawrence and Mo ...Show more
Marvell Poems by Andrew Marvell
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"He is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including "The Garden," "The Definition of Love," "Bermudas," "To His Coy Mistress," and the "Horatian Ode" to Cromwell. Marvell's work is marked by extraordinary variety, ranging from incomparable lyric explorations of the inner life to satiric poems ...Show more
Persian Poems by Peter Washington (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | 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
Poems by John Milton; Peter Washington (Editor)
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This volume contains extensive selections from Paradise Lost, chosen to illustrate the author's genius for high drama, vivid description and savage irony. In addition, there are substantial extracts from Comus and Samson Agonistes, as well as many of his shorter poems and sonnets.
Poems about Sculpture by Murray Dewey (Editor); Robert Polito (Preface by)
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"Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts- from the Paleolithic era we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keats's Grecia ...Show more
Poems about Trees by Harry Thomas (Editor)
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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
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Category: Poetry | 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 Prose Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe exerted an enormous influence over later writers, especially French symbolists. Although probably best known for his macabre short stories, Poe's influence was spread primarily through his poems and essays which are contained in this volume.