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Herbert Poems by George Herbert
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
An Anglican priest who took his calling with deep seriousness, Herbert brought to his work a religious reverence richly allied with literary and musical gifts of the highest order. His best-loved poems, from The Collar and Jordan to The Altar and Easter Wings, achieve a perfection of form and feeling an ...Show more
James Merrill Poems by James Merrill
Category: Gift | 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
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
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)
Category: Gift | 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
Montale - Poems by Eugenio Montale; Jonathan Galassi (Editor, Translator)
Category: Gift | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion ...Show more
Music's Spell - Poems about Music and Musicians by Emily Fragos (Editor)
Category: Gift | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Music may be the universal language that needs no words--the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it--but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop and Billy Collins; the wild pipes of W ...Show more
Persian Poems by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Gift | 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