
A Little History Of Poetry
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it wil...
View full detailsWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it wil...
View full detailsIn a lasting marriage, one could still outlive the other. A poet gazes upon his older partner, pondering the inevitable. Panic, heartache, and a su...
View full detailsA legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova--denounced by the Soviet regime for her...
View full detailsAn anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet praises the whale. Shakespeare sympathizes with the hunted hare. Marianne Moore tries to catch a jelly-fish. Virgil a...
View full detailsA bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition....
View full detailsArt and Artists: Poems is a sumptuous collection of visions in verse--the work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate...
View full detailsModern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic u...
View full detailsThis rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writi...
View full detailsBlake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Pro...
View full detailsBorn in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi ...
View full detailsIn this remarkable collection—the first of its kind—poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of th...
View full detailsBronte contains poems that demonstrate a sensibility elemental in its force with an imaginative discipline and flexibility of the highest order. Al...
View full detailsRobert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for the...
View full detailsThe most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume. With the publication of his fi...
View full detailsTo the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emul...
View full detailsedited by Daniel Mendelsohn The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No mode...
View full detailsThe ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with th...
View full detailsThis treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to ...
View full detailsBefore she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decad...
View full detailsselected by Peter Washington Dickinson contains poems from The Poet's Art, The Works of Love, and Death and Resurrection, as well as an index of fi...
View full detailsFrom Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, Doggerel presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes...
View full detailsDonne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The First Anniversary, Holy Sonnets, Divine Poems, excerpts from Paradoxes an...
View full detailsEating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies...
View full detailsEdwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the first of the great American modernist poets."No poet ever u...
View full detailsT. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was the dominant force in twentieth-century British and American poetry. With poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru...
View full detailsRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture a...
View full detailsThe same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson's poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deepl...
View full detailsThese poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an ...
View full detailstranslated by Charles Johnston Eugene Onegin (1833) is a comedy of manners, written in exquisitely crafted verse, about two young members of the Ru...
View full detailsA celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this one-of-a-kind anthology features the richly varied voices of daughters and sons, and of fathers and g...
View full detailsFelon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems-canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homeles...
View full detailsWith both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories ...
View full detailsFrom the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry ...
View full detailsA celebration of friendship in all its aspects--from the delight of making a new friend to the serene joys of longtime devotion. Poems about best f...
View full detailsFrom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems–all ...
View full detailsThe splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them "succeeds in annihilating all that's ma...
View full detailsHardy contains poems from Moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, Veteris Vestigia Flammae, Heredity, Short Stories, Afterwards, and an index o...
View full detailsGeorge Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular...
View full detailsFrom the ancient "Hymn to Ninkasi" (the Sumerian goddess of beer) to eighth-century Chinese poet Li Bai's "Bring in the Ale" to Robert Graves's "St...
View full detailsHopkins contains a full selection of Hopkins's work, including selected verse, prose, and letters, and an index of first lines.Hardback: 256 PagesP...
View full detailsThis wide-ranging selection showcases the work of one of ancient Rome's master poets--and originator of the phrase "carpe diem"--whose influence on...
View full detailsThe poems of How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living. Barbara Kingsolver's generous co...
View full detailsFrom the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the expe...
View full details"The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears or the ocean." Isak Dinesen This is one of my favourite quotes, and it pretty much sums up the e...
View full detailsAccording to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion "there is no textbook at al...
View full detailsIrish Poems is a treasury of poetry from the Emerald Isle, stretching back fourteen centuries. From the romantic ballad to the rebel song, from dev...
View full detailsEver since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that ...
View full detailsKeats contains a full selection of Keats's work, including his lyric poems, narrative poems, letters, and an index of first lines.Hardback: 256 Pag...
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