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Shakespeare - Poems by William Shakespeare
$24.99 AUD
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.
Sleep and Dreams by Peter Washington
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Category: Poetry | 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
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.
Tennyson Poems by Alfred Tennyson
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Category: Classics | 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 Great Cat by Fragos, Emily
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline family-from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthers-doing what they do ...Show more
The Poems of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
As a young man Pope shot to fame with The Rape of the Lock, a light-hearted mock-heroic poem about a trivial society scandal, still his best remembered work. Wit and irony, dazzling technical mastery - he perfected the English heroic couplet - acute social observation and insight into human nature were ...Show more
Villanelles by EVERYMAN
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeated lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle has fascinated poets ever since it was introduced almost two centuries ago. Many well-known names in the past have tried their hand at it, and the villanelle is enjoying a re ...Show more
Walt Whitman : Poems by Walt Whitman
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Whitman contains forty-two of the American master's poems, including "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, " "Song of Myself, " "I Hear America Singing, " "Halcyon Days ...Show more
War Poems by John Hollander
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
In EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS series, this gift book with silk ribbon markers is an anthology of over one hundred poems encompassing the entire spectrum of feelings about war: pride, compassion, courage, anger, fear, excitement, anguish, even laughter. The poets range from Horace and Virgil to Stev ...Show more
Zen Poems by Peter Harris
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan and Korea includes the work of practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travellers and recluses and covers fifteen centuries of Oriental literature.