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Poems by Rainer Rilke
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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
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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 about Sculpture by Murray Dewey (Editor); Robert Polito (Preface by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
"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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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 and Songs by Leonard Cohen
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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 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