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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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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
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.
Poems of Food and Drink by Peter Washington (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most peopleâe(tm)s lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beve ...Show more
Poems of Paris by Emily Fragos (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets - Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Robert ...Show more
Poems of Rome by Karl Kirchwey (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city - whether in person or imagination - the book is divided into sections by place. Its pages lead the reader ...Show more
Poems of the American South by David Biespiel (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as mythologized as the South, ...Show more
Poems of the Sea by J. D. McClatchy
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
"Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of li ...Show more
Prayers and Meditations by Peter Washington
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The pieces in this volume are taken from all religions and traditions with the purpose of providing material for prayer and meditation. They are arranged in seven sections following the Canonical Hours of the Chruch: Matins, Prime, Tierce, Sext, Nones, Vespers and Compline. Each section gathers poems an ...Show more
Rumi: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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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: Unseen Poems by Rumi
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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
Shakespeare - Poems by William Shakespeare
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, songs from plays and celebrated soliloquies from Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice. In addition, substantial extracts from the longer narrative poems Shakespeare wrote in his youth are included.
Sonnets - From Dante to the Present by John Hollander (Editor)
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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.