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Marriage Poems by John Hollander
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
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
Mind Breaths - Poems, 1972-1977 by Allen Ginsberg
Category: No Category | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade.Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing crazy Wisdom's hopeless suffering, the First Nob ...Show more
Montale - Poems by Eugenio Montale; Jonathan Galassi (Editor, Translator)
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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)
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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)
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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
Poems about Trees by Harry Thomas (Editor)
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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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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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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 of Food and Drink by Peter Washington (Editor)
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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