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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
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems by Peter (EDT) Elizabeth Barrett; Washington Robert; Browning Browning
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Rumi Poems by Peter Washington
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Category: 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: 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
SOLITUDE TC by CIURARU CARMEL
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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
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.
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