Poetry anthologies (various poets)
MP-ARK University of Arkansas Moon City Review 2009 An Annual of Poetry Story
Book SynopsisAn annual intermingling poetry, story (both fiction and creative nonfiction), visual art, and timely cultural and literary criticism. Featuring the invited work of nationally renowned authors, it also provides a venue for upcoming authors and artists.
£13.25
American Oriental Society Aspects of Versification in Sanskrit Lyric Poetry
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£999.99
Mystic Productions On Starry Thighs
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£11.89
Saturnalia Books Gurlesque
Book SynopsisGurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics brings together eighteen poets of wide-ranging backgrounds, united in their ability to push the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies, and pairs them with visual artists who do the same. At the turn of the millennium, we are witnessing the emergence of a vital-perhaps viral-new strain of female poetics: the Gurlesque, a term that describes writers who perform femininity in their poems in a campy or overtly mocking manner, risking the grotesque to shake the foundations of acceptable female behavior and language. Built from the bric-a-brac of girl culture, these works charm and repel: this work is fun, subversive, and important. Poets include Brenda Coultas, Brenda Shaghnessy, Cathy Park Hong, Matthea Harvey, and Sarah Vap.
£19.00
Random House USA Inc French Poetry From Medieval to Modern Times
Book SynopsisA beautifully jacketed hardcover collection of verse by French-speaking poets from cultures across the globe, spanning the ages from medieval to modern. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS. From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today’s rising stars mingling with the great writers of past centuries: La Fontaine, François Villon, Christine de Pizan, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and many more. Here, too, are representatives of the modern francophone world, encompassing Lebanese, Tunisian, Senegalese, and Belgian poets, including such notable writers as Léopold Senghor, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, and Hédi Kaddour. Finally, this anthology s
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Poems of Gratitude
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£16.00
Random House USA Inc Poems of Paris
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£16.00
Random House USA Inc Poems of Healing
Book SynopsisA remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual.From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£14.36
Random House USA Inc Buzz Words
Book SynopsisA unique hardcover anthology of poems—from around the world and through the ages—that celebrates the gloriously diverse insect world. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Given that insects vastly outnumber us, it is no surprise that many cultures have long and rich traditions of verse about our tiny fellow creatures. Tang Dynasty poets in China and the haiku masters of Japan composed thousands of works in praise of crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, moths, and butterflies, as well as such humbler bugs as houseflies, fleas, and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about insects date back to the ancient Greeks and appear frequently in Europe from the Elizabethan period onward. The brilliant poets collected here range far and wide in time and place, including Tu Fu, John Donne, Kobayashi Issa, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Xi Chuan, and Kevin Young. Bees, butterflies, and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies and dragonflies, ladybugs and glowworms—the miniature beings that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that celebrate them.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£14.37
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group German Romantic Poets
Book SynopsisA greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets of the Romantic movement, including Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, and Heine, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcoverUnlike the more earnest English Romantic poets, followers of the Romantic movement in Germany valued wit and humor along with beauty. Admiration for nature is also prominent in their poetry, and in particular the dramatic forests which still cover large areas of Germany. Love and death crop up repeatedly as themes in such famous works as Goethe’s “Elf King” and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. Characters from myth and folklore abound—most famously Lorelei, an enchantress who is associated with the rock of the same name on the bank of the Rhine, who is featured in several poems in this volume. Also gathered here are such favorites as Hölderlin’s “Bread and Wine,” Schiller’s “The Visit of the Gods,” Eichendorff’s “
£17.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Cold Mountain Poems
Book SynopsisThe best of Hanshan's beloved poems—among the earliest of Zen-style Buddhist poetry, beloved by the Beat Generation—here newly translated and organized thematically in a beautiful Pocket Poets hardcoverOften ranked among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were traditionally thought to have been written at least twelve centuries ago on rock walls by a Buddhist monk living in the mountains of southeastern China. The best of his poems, collected here and organized by theme, reflect the sense of humor, deep love of solitude, and vivid descriptions of nature that have endeared these poems to generations of readers.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£13.09
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Browning Poems
Book SynopsisThe Brownings’ astonishing romantic and poetic relationship is here preserved in a beautiful and lasting hardcover volume. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.This collection presents the Brownings’ work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth’s death. Whether in short poems such as Elizabeth’s “Hector in the Garden” and Robert’s “Natural Magic,” or in extracts from longer works such as Aurora Leigh and Pauline, the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature. Elizabeth’s famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, based on their love affair, is included in its entirety.The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Indian Love Poems
Book SynopsisAccording 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 all, and no order.” Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disordered ecstasies of love, ranging from the Kama Sutra and earlier works up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora.Indian Love Poems features works from the classical languages of Sanskrit and Tamil and such later languages as Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English. Emerging from many Indian cultures and eras, the poems collected here reflect a variety of erotic and spiritual passions, and celebrate the powerful role of desire-both male and female-in the intricate dance of existence. From the twelfth-century female poet Mahadeviyakka to the twentieth-century Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore to such contemporary poets as Kamala Das and Vikram Seth, this glittering tapestry of lyric voices beautifully and sensually evokes the transfiguring force of love.
£17.00
Random House USA Inc The Great Cat Poems About Cats Everymans Library
Book SynopsisThis delightful anthology gives us a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, ever-mystifying cat.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 best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves. Here are Yeats’s Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart’s Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, T. S. Eliot’s Rum Tum Tugger, William Blake’s tyger and Rilke’s panther. Here are tributes from Sufi mystics, medieval Chinese poets, and haiku masters of imperial Japan, from Chaucer, Shelley, Borges, Neruda, Dickinson, and Shakespeare. Here are the cats of Mother Goose, and the one who wore the hat for Dr. Seuss.The Great Cat will delight cat lovers everywhere, celebrating as it does the beauty, the mystery, the gravity, the grace, and, of course, the unassailable superiority of the cat.
£16.00
Random House USA Inc Motherhood
Book SynopsisCelebrating mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, grandmothers and grandchildren, Motherhood is a glorious, wonderfully intimate tribute to the first love in every reader’s life.From tenth-century Japan’s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel’s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland’s Paul Muldoon, and Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls “How the days went / While you were blooming within me”; Jorie Graham muses on her mother’s sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in “Kaddish”; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother’s empowering example: “Don’t you fall now— / For I’se still goin’, honey, / I’se still climbin’, / And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” From Emily Brontë’s “Upon Her Soothing Breast” and Seamus Heaney’s “Mother of the Groom” to Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” and Frank O’Hara’s “Ave Maria,” the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Solitude
Book SynopsisA literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called “sessions of sweet silent thought,” this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering “lonely as a cloud”; Poe confiding “all I loved, I loved alone”; Yeats’s communion with “the deep heart’s core”; and Han Shan’s heart of a hermit, “clean as a white lotus.” From Sir Edward Dyer’s “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is,” to the spiritual searching of the Transcendentalists, to the meditative verse of Jorie Graham, some of the most indelible poems from every time and culture have grown out of the aloneness inherent in the poet’s art. The poems collected here, whether reflecting on the soul or on nature, addressing an absent loved one, or honoring the self, form a book of respite and contemplation, and a beautiful tribute to the interior life.
£15.30
HarperCollins Focus Women Who Wrote
Book SynopsisThis beautiful, giftable collection celebrates both the wisdom and tenacity of courageous women who defied society’s expectations and gifted the world with literary treasures through unparalleled fiction and poetry.
£13.29
Johns Hopkins University Press Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.-Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650Trade ReviewRichly enjoyable and informative collection of lyric poems... Cox frames the poems with an admirably detailed historical introduction, a guide to technical issues (form, meter, rhythm, rhyme), capsule biographies of the poets, and consistently helpful footnotes. The result is a unique and valuable anthology that will appeal to any reader of Renaissance poetry. Highly recommended. Choice There is no doubt that Virginia Cox's work in the field has had a transformative impact on the study of Renaissance women writers in Italy in recent years. This fascinating anthology positively vibrates with the quality and interest of its contents... -- Abigail Brundin, University of Cambridge Renaissance Quarterly Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance is thus a monumental work in both purpose and design. Not only does it anthologize 211 poems by fifty-five women authors (both familiar and obscure), it presents a corpus of literature that while known to be vast, had no singular entry point for study... In sum, Lyric Poetry is a valuable book for both student and scholar. -- Gerry Milligan Early Modern Women It is impossible to overestimate the role that Virginia Cox has played in bringing to light, researching, and promoting awareness of and appreciation for writings by women in early modern Italy... Cox's tireless work and elegant, timely writing continue to expand our horizon and field of enquiry. -- Maria Galli Stampino Modern Language Review An invaluable anthology. -- Bryan Brazeau Year's Work in Modern Language Studies A rich source for those interested in early modern women's lyric in Italy. Particularly impressive is the overview of the field in the detailed introduction... The text could well serve the novice interested in an overview of the period and also the more experienced reader by providing access to lesser-known writers and texts. -- Veena Carlson Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Amorous VerseIn VitaIn morteVentriloquized Love PoetryPart II: Religious VersePart III: Correspondence VersePart IV: Encomia of Rulers and PatronsPart V: Political Verse Part VI: Polemical and Manifesto VersePart VII: Verse of Friendship and Family LoveIn VitaIn mortePart VIII: Other in morte VersePart IX: Verse of Place and SelfhoodPart X: Comic and Dialect VerseNotes on AuthorsAppendixesA. Poems by AuthorB. Poems by MeterC. Metrical AnalysisD. Citations and SourcesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
£999.99
Saint Benedict Press Poems Every Catholic Should Know
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£23.74
Pan Macmillan Poems on Nature
Book SynopsisThe poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by Helen Macdonald, author of the international bestseller, H is for Hawk.Since poetry began, there have been poems about nature; it’s a complex subject which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Poets from Andrew Marvell to W. B. Yeats to Emily Brontë have sought to describe the natural environment and our relationship with it. There is also a rich tradition of songs and rhymes, such as ’Scarborough Fair’, that hark back to a rural way of life which may now be lost, but is brought back to life in the lyrical verses included in this collection.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Spring Poem - 1: ‘The year’s at the spring’ - Robert Browning Poem - 2: I so liked Spring - Charlotte Mew Poem - 3: There Will Come Soft Rains - Sara Teasdale Poem - 4: To a Snowdrop - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: February Twilight - Sara Teasdale Poem - 6: Spring - William Blake Poem - 7: Thaw - Edward Thomas Poem - 8: Spring - Christina Rossetti Poem - 9: Her Anxiety - W. B. Yeats Poem - 10: Invitation to the Country - George Meredith Poem - 11: To my Sister - William Wordsworth Poem - 12: ‘Dear March – Come In –’ - Emily Dickinson Poem - 13: The Lamb - William Blake Poem - 14: March - Anon Poem - 15: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth Poem - 16: To Daffodils - Robert Herrick Poem - 17: Mothering Sunday - George Hare Leonard Poem - 18: I Watched a Blackbird - Thomas Hardy Poem - 19: Loveliest of trees - A. E. Houseman Poem - 20: The Cuckoo - Anon Poem - 21: The Cuckoo - Anon Poem - 22: The Woods and Banks - W. H. Davies Poem - 23: Little Trotty Wagtail - John Clare Poem - 24: Home Thoughts from Abroad - Robert Browning Poem - 25: On a Lane in Spring John Clare Poem - 26: Spring - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 27: The Starlight Night - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 28: Tall Nettles - Edward Thomas Poem - 29: ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ - William Shakespeare Poem - 30: Sonnet 98 - William Shakespeare Poem - 31: But These Things Also - Edward Thomas Poem - 32: The Argument of His Book Robert Herrick Poem - 33: The Song of Wandering Aengus - W. B. Yeats Poem - 34: A Brilliant Day - Charles Tennyson Turner Unit - 2: Summer Poem - 1: Summer - Christina Rossetti Poem - 2: The Happy Countryman - Nicholas Breton Poem - 3: A Day - Emily Dickinson Poem - 4: My Heart Leaps Up - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: The Merry Month of May - Thomas Dekker Poem - 6: ‘Sumer is icumen in’ - Anon Poem - 7: The Throstle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 8: The Landrail - John Clare Poem - 9: The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats Poem - 10: Seven Times One: Exultation - Jean Ingelow Poem - 11: This Lime-tree Bower my Prison - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 12: The Cow - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 13: The Frog - Anon. Poem - 14: Little Fish - D. H. Lawrence Poem - 15: Heaven - Rupert Brooke Poem - 16: To Make a Prairie - Emily Dickinson Poem - 17: The Unknown Bird - Edward Thomas Poem - 18: To a Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 19: Trees - Joyce Kilmer Poem - 20: The Sweet o’ the Year - George Meredith Poem - 21: Ladybird! Ladybird! - Emily Brontë Poem - 22: Daisies - Christina Rossetti Poem - 23: Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare Poem - 24: The Gardener - Anon Poem - 25: The Cries of London - Anon Poem - 26: Scarborough Fair - Anon Poem - 27: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare Poem - 28: Summer Dawn - William Morris Poem - 29: Careless Rambles - John Clare Poem - 30: A Green Cornfield - Christina Rossetti Poem - 31: The Caterpillar - Christina Rossetti Poem - 32: To a Butterfly - William Wordsworth Poem - 33: Adlestrop - Edward Thomas Poem - 34: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea - Christina Rossetti Poem - 35: Epitaph on a Hare - William Cowper Poem - 36: A London Plane-Tree - Amy Levy Poem - 37: In the Fields - Charlotte Mew Poem - 38: Meeting at Night - Robert Browning Unit - 3: Autumn Poem - 1: To Autumn - John Keats Poem - 2: Leisure - W. H. Davies Poem - 3: from Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun - Walt Whitman Poem - 4: Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 5: The Glory - Edward Thomas Poem - 6: The Rainy Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem - 7: Autumn Rain - D. H. Lawrence Poem - 8: Digging - Edward Thomas Poem - 9: Autumn Fires - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 10: Now is the Time for the Burning of the Leaves - Laurence Binyon Poem - 11: Moonlit Apples - John Drinkwater Poem - 12: The Lane - Edward Thomas Poem - 13: The Wild Swans at Coole - W. B. Yeats Poem - 14: ‘Western wind, when wilt thou blow?’ - Anon. Poem - 15: Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti Poem - 16: from The Garden - Andrew Marvell Poem - 17: Autumn Birds - John Clare Poem - 18: The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 19: The Owl - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 20: Sweet Suffolke Owle - Anon Poem - 21: Rural Evening - Lord De Tabley Poem - 22: The Hayloft - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 23: The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth Poem - 24: To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No- W. B. Yeats Poem - 25: The Way through the Woods - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 26: The Fisherman’s Wife - Amy Lowell Poem - 27: Sign of the Times - Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem - 28: Fall, Leaves, Fall - Emily Brontë Poem - 29: Pleasant Sounds - John Clare Poem - 30: A Noiseless, Patient Spider - Walt Whitman Poem - 31: Something Told the Wild Geese - Rachel Field Unit - 4: Winter Poem - 1: To a Mouse - Robert Burns Poem - 2: Spellbound - Emily Brontë Poem - 3: Winter-Time - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 4: Winter - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 5: A Winter Night - William Barnes Poem - 6: Snow Storm - John Clare Poem - 7: No! - Thomas Hood Poem - 8: Sheep in Winter - John Clare Poem - 9: Snow - Edward Thomas Poem - 10: Out in the Dark - Edward Thomas Poem - 11: The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House - Thomas Hardy Poem - 12: from As You Like It - William Shakespeare Poem - 13: A Winter Bluejay - Sara Teasdale Poem - 14: Birds at Winter Nightfall - Thomas Hardy Poem - 15: The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy Poem - 16: Little Robin Redbreast - Anon. Poem - 17: Frost at Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 18: Up in the Morning Early - Robert Burns Poem - 19: In Tenebris - Ford Madox Ford Poem - 20: The Holly and the Ivy - Anon. Poem - 21: The First Tree in the Greenwood - Anon. Poem - 22: The Oxen - Thomas Hardy Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines
£10.99
Pan Macmillan Poems for Happiness
Book SynopsisPoetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms – whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, The Reverend Richard Coles.Poems for Happiness is an inspiring and life-affirming collection that features writing by some of our greatest poets whose work is still widely read today. It includes famous poems such as ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling, ‘My Heart Leaps Up’ by William Wordsworth and ‘Invictus’ by W. E. Henley. In addition to these well-known verses, this beautiful volume includes lesser-known poems to discover and enjoy.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Happy Thought Poem - 1: Happy Thought - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 2: Happy the Man - John Dryden Poem - 3: New Sights - Anon Poem - 4: On a Quiet Conscience - Charles I Poem - 5: Leisure - W.H. Davies Poem - 6: High Flights - John Gillespie Magee Jr. Poem - 7: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You - Anon. Poem - 8: If - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 9: Now May Every Living Thing - Anon. Poem - 10: Hurt No Living Thing - Christina Rossetti Poem - 11: from Auguries of Innocence - William Blake Poem - 12: To Every Thing There Is a Season - Book of Ecclesiastes Poem - 13: from Endymion - John Keats Poem - 14: Shining Things - Elizabeth Gould Poem - 15: The Quiet Life - Alexander Pope Poem - 16: Song of Apollo - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 17: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is - Sir Edward Dyer Poem - 18: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats Poem - 19: Eternity - William Blake Poem - 20: A Farewell - Charles Kingsley Poem - 21: A Vision - Henry Vaughan Poem - 22: Gratefulnesse - George Herbert Poem - 23: Thanks in Old Age - Walt Whitman Poem - 24: A Little Health - Anon. Unit - 2: Glory Be To God For Dappled Things Poem - 1: Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 2: Amazing Grace - John Newton Poem - 3: God Be In My Head - Sarum Missal Poem - 4: ‘Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace’ - St Francis of Assisi Poem - 5: Miracles - Walt Whitman Poem - 6: Father, We Thank Thee - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 7: African Canticle - Anon Poem - 8: The Thanksgivings - Iroquois, Traditional tr. Harriet Maxwell Converse Poem - 9: Harvest Home - Henry Alford Poem - 10: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Wallace Willis Poem - 11: Desiderata - Max Ehrmann Poem - 12: The Iroquois Prayer - Iroquois, Traditional Poem - 13: Jewish Prayer - Service of the Orthodox Synagogue for the Festival of Tabernacles Poem - 14: from His Pilgrimage - Sir Walter Raleigh Poem - 15: When the Heart is Hard - Rabindranath Tagore Poem - 16: The Selkirk Grace - Robert Burns Poem - 17: Epitaph - Winifred Holtby Unit - 3: I Sing of Brooks, of Blossoms, Birds, and Bowers Poem - 1: The Argument of His Book - Robert Herrick Poem - 2: The Song of Wandering Aengus - W. B. Yeats Poem - 3: Spring - William Blake Poem - 4: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose - Emily Dickinson Poem - 6: The Happy Child - W. H. Davies Poem - 7: from Pippa Passes - Robert Browning Poem - 8: A Greeting - W. H. Davies Poem - 9: February Twilight - Sara Teasdale Poem - 10: Adoration - Christopher Smart Poem - 11: The Sun Rising - John Donne Poem - 12: Sowing - Edward Thomas Poem - 13: A Dumb Friend - Christina Rossetti Poem - 14: My Heart Leaps Up - William Wordsworth Poem - 15: The Throstle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 16: May - Thomas Dekker Poem - 17: Moonlight, Summer Moonlight - Emily Brontë Poem - 18: The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats Poem - 19: Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare Poem - 20: To Make a Prairie - Emily Dickinson Poem - 21: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare Poem - 22: Careless Rambles - John Clare Poem - 23: Magna Est Veritas - Coventry Patmore Poem - 24: Rest and Be Thankful! - William Wordsworth Poem - 24: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 - William Wordsworth Poem - 25: Moonlit Apples - John Drinkwater Poem - 26: Harvest Hymn - John Greenleaf Whittier Poem - 27: To Autumn - John Keats Poem - 28: Pleasant Sounds - John Clare Poem - 29: ‘See yonder leafless trees against the sky’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 30: Evening Quatrains - Charles Cotton Poem - 31: Ode - Joseph Addison Poem - 32: ‘It is a beauteous evening, calm and free’ - William Wordsworth Poem - 33: God’s Grandeur - Gerard Manley Hopkins Unit - 4: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Poem - 1: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth - Arthur Hugh Clough Poem - 2: Freedom - Olive Runner Poem - 3: New Every Morning - Susan Coolidge Poem - 4: Will - Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poem - 5: Invictus - W. E. Henley Poem - 6: Ain’t I a Woman? - Sojourner Truth and Erlene Stetson Poem - 7: This, Too, Shall Pass Away - Lanta Wilson Smith Poem - 8: ‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers - Emily Dickinson Poem - 9: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries - Walt Whitman Poem - 10: Courage - Amelia Earhart Poem - 11: The Call - Charlotte Mew Poem - 12: A Pebble - James W. Foley Poem - 13: from Henry V - William Shakespeare Poem - 14: The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus Poem - 15: The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln Poem - 16: The Star-Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key Poem - 17: I Hear America Singing - Walt Whitman Poem - 18: No Coward Soul Is Mine - Emily Brontë Poem - 19: A Summing Up - Charles Mackay Unit - 5: Friendship is Love Without his Wings Poem - 1: L’Amitié Est L’Amour Sans Ailes - Lord Byron Poem - 2: Outwitted - Edwin Markham Poem - 3: We Two Boys Together Clinging - Walt Whitman Poem - 4: Friendship - Dinah Maria Craik Poem - 5: Forbearance - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 6: Friendship - Aztec, Traditional Poem - 7: Travelling - William Wordsworth Poem - 8: Love and Friendship - Emily Brontë Poem - 9: New Friends and Old Friends - Joseph Parry Unit - 6: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Poem - 1: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - W. B. Yeats Poem - 2: How Do I Love Thee? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem - 3: Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare Poem - 4: Meeting at Night - Robert Browning Poem - 5: To a Friend - Amy Lowell Poem - 6: A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Poem - 7: Upon Julia’s Clothes - Robert Herrick Poem - 8: Rose- cheeked - Laura Thomas Campion Poem - 9: In an Artist’s Studio - Christina Rossetti Poem - 10: ‘It was a lover and his lass’ - William Shakespeare Poem - 11: Love Lightly Pleased - Robert Herrick Poem - 12: Invitation to Love - Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem - 13: from Paradise Lost - John Milton Poem - 14: Fulfillment - William Cavendish Poem - 15: from Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem - 16: Camomile Tea - Katherine Mansfield Poem - 17: When I Heard at the Close of the Day - Walt Whitman Poem - 18: Song - George Peele Poem - 19: To Althea, from Prison - Richard Lovelace Poem - 20: A Decade - Amy Lowell Unit - 7: The Shape of a Good Greyhound Poem - 1: The Shape of a Good Greyhound - Anon Poem - 2: The Lurcher - William Cowper Poem - 3: Dog - Harold Monro Poem - 4: The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 5: A Winter Bluejay - Sara Teasdale Poem - 6: from To a Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 7: ‘Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day’ - Thomas Heywood Poem - 8: from Jubilate Agno - Christopher Smart Poem - 9: Pangur Bán - Anon. tr. Robin Flower Poem - 10: The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear Poem - 11: Seal Lullaby - Rudyard Kipling Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines
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Alfred A. Knopf Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets
Book SynopsisIn this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us from the earliest days of the pandemic lockdown, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives as the pandemic continues to shape our lives **Featuring 107 poets, from A to Z—Julia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruder—with work in between by Jericho Brown, Billy Collins, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón, Sharon Olds, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Vijay Seshadri, and Jeffrey Yang**As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital, and, as the Black Lives Matter swept the globe, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful, darkly humorous, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange, providing wisdom, companionship, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits.
£17.00
Vehicule Press The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry
Book SynopsisCollecting the works of 50 modern Canadian poets, this anthology of verse points to an emerging openness toward form in the nation's poetry. The book includes nearly 200 poems from more than 20 presses and an essay that describes and explains the innovations of form that distinguish the featured writers.
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Signal Editions Resisting Canada: An Anthology of New Poetry
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Vehicule Press The Montreal Prize Anthology 2020
Book SynopsisFounded in 2010, the Montreal International Poetry Prize has established itself as a major event in contemporary poetry, both in Canada and around the world. The Montreal Prize Anthology 2020 explodes with talent, combining radiant vision with striking invention in form. The loss of a father finds equivalence in a tornado’s blowing an apartment open to the night sky. Sacred and profane images of a mother pile up in couplets, making a heap of gold. Family memory stirs in the dreamy measures of a sestina. Racial injustice is defied and reversed in the unflinching mirror of a palindromic poem. A doctor confesses her life work to be a striving to right the wrong done her father. These poems, a handful of the thousands submitted to the 2020 competition, were chosen for the lone virtue of their speaking directly to the reader, with conviction and with art. In 2019, the founder of the Montreal Prize, Asa Boxer, transferred it to the Department of English at McGill University. A team of dedicated faculty and graduate students recruited a distinguished international jury, headed by Pulitzer-prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa, to judge the entries. This book is the result.Trade Review"The anthology contains more than one 'Hell yeah!' poetry moment -- the kind of poem that avid poetry readers can use to argue poetry's merits to the unconverted." -- The Montreal Review of Books
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Exile Editions We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the
Book SynopsisIgnored by critics and readers of the time, these poems were written by Canadians who witnessed the horror of World War I first-hand, forming an anthology in which the forgotten experiences of a decade are finally remembered.Trade ReviewBarry Callaghan and Bruce Meyer have done yeoman service to Canadian literature with this volume." —Rex Murphy, host, Cross-Country Check-Up, CBC Radio One
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Exile Editions 100 Love Sonnets: A Bilingual Spanish and English
Book SynopsisForty years after Pablo Neruda’s death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity of his lesser-known genre. Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influential and beloved 20th-century poets. He was a Nobel Laureate, famous for his politically engaged lyrics, who also wrote these bold and sensual sonnets.In this new edition, the poems are followed by three essays on reading Neruda and his poetic effect by the notable poets and translators A. F. Moritz, Beatriz Hausner, and Toronto’s Poet Laureate (2012–2015) George Elliott Clarke, as well as a new afterword by the translator, questions for discussion, and recommended readings.Trade Review“This handsome, bilingual edition . . . is a worthy tribute and a rollicking good read, staying true to the poet’s expansive, idiosyncratic style.” —Globe and Mail
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Exile Editions In a Time of No Song
Book SynopsisThis remarkable collection of poems lures you in, at first to stand alone in the dark, but slowly there comes a hint of light from a crack beneath a door, then a riot of sensuous intensity as you open up to the beauty that lies between the folds of words, bursts of poetic energy that casts warm light over all shadows.From the Introduction by A.F. Moritz "What is this poetry like? There are not many precedents for it or bodies of work very similar to it in English…Bien's word hoard is all his own, though, the way he animates it, constantly connecting the outer with the inner, the familiar with the distant, the limited with the vast, the realm of thought with the realm of life, non-sentient things with sentient ones… There is scarcely a stanza in Bien's work that does not contain some instance of these extendings and plunges into each other performed by things and whole modes of existence. More notable still is the mysterious ease with which the poems admit the contradictions present in perceptions, emotions and desires. In a Time of No Song will impress readers with its poetry of pure sentience and godlike laughter… The mysticism of the source is here, but most of all, I think, we will remember the great enactments and themes of this book through its omnipresent, brilliant tributes to life. We'll keep it by us for its indelible celebrations… A dove lands on my shoulder, the unbearable weight of magicwhat shelters each moment in every other, dies and lives, homelessly on,an orchard of lovely berries singing on a dying treeand so all the while, so too, I sing, that which sings me, in a time of no song.
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Graywolf Press New European Poets
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Graywolf Press The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian
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Graywolf Press American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time
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£999.99
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Dreams of the Presidents: From George Washington
Book SynopsisThe stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the sense of entitlement and self-importance that afflicts too many politicians. Fun to read, humorous, and laced with events of historical interest, each poem gives a dose of insight into the president’s life and his relationships with others, including his family, allies, and rivals. Where contemporary people or important references to American history—such as slavery and the Indian wars—occur, notes explain and contextualize them within the poem’s meaning. Published during an election year, this book offers a well-timed look at politicians, some much-needed laughs at leaders who take themselves too seriously, and a fun platform from which readers can start to explore the lives of those who, for better or worse, have led America.
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University of Arkansas Press Southern Omnibus
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University of Arkansas Press Oblivion and Stone: A Selection of Contemporary
Book SynopsisIn a literature where recognition is hard earned, this anthology demonstrates what distinguishes contemporary Bolivian fiction and poetry from the rest of Latin American writing and shows clearly how Bolivian writers relate to that tradition.Bolivia is a landlocked nation of mountains and high, arid plains, a place native writer JesÚs Urzagasti calls the “Land of Silence.” This crucible of indigenous and European influences has contributed to the creation of a writing style that is always down-to-earth, often grittily realistic.From this fundamental base, Bolivian writers express provincial customs and values, decry political oppression, and sound universal themes of isolation, even resignation; but, more often, they show the will to move forward as a people. This rich thematic mix encourages what critic Edgar Lora has called the “dynamic and vigorous social dis course” and the resulting “subversive, militant, and revolutionary” qualities of Bolivian literature.Editor Sandra Reyes has gathered a panoramic sampling of twenty two poets and eighteen fiction writers. Focusing predominantly on living, practicing writers, this anthology defines the current literary voice of Bolivia and gives us a distillation of the contemporary Bolivian consciousness.
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University of Arkansas Press The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe second edition features twelve new poets as well as new work by Donald Justice, T. R. Hummer, Dave Smith, Pattiann Rogers, Andrew Hudgins, Henry Taylor, Gerald Barrax, Rodney Jones, and others. Among the new additions are Mark Jarman, Cathy Smith Bowers, and Charlie Smith. Many teachers realize that the best way to get their students to relate to poetry is to show them poems that contain landscapes and subjects they understand and can identify with. Leon Stokesbury has put together a richly varied collection used in classrooms not only in the South but all over the country as a means of studying the important influence of southern poetry on American literature. With the publication of the second edition of The Made Thing, Stokesbury has marked the end of the twentieth century and the rise to prominence of southern writers. This collection serves as a substantial sampling of poets whose works span more than five decades and who explore the rich personal and cultural history that extends beyond the boundaries of the South.
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University of Massachusetts Press Coro, El: Chorus of Latino/Latina Poetry
Book SynopsisThis is an anthology of work by Latino and Latina poets, which reveals a diversity of form and content. Among the poets are former farm workers and gang members, a physician, a chef and a Vietnam veteran. The variety of experience demonstrates that there is no single ""Latino/a outlook"".
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Thunder's Mouth Press The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
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Hendrickson Publishers Inc The Works of Josephus
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Poets In A Landscape
Book SynopsisGilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Interior Landscape
Book SynopsisIn The Interior Landscape the great Indian poet and translator A.K. Ramanujan has drawn on a celebrated anthology of classical Tamil poetry to compose an unforgettable sequence of love poems. The story unfolds in a series of dramatic exchanges between a shifting array of characters—the lovers, relatives, friends, rivals, and sundry passersby—and as it does we are conducted through five phases of love, from first meeting, anxiety, infidelity and separation to final union, each associated with a lush interior landscape of its own. Immersed in the glories of the natural world, the poems evoke the whole spectrum of love while also capturing the gossip and wisecracking of those who look on from outside.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection Of
Book SynopsisAN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONERPoetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet for many years the poetry of the era was considered little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. The twentieth century brought a reevaluation, and the English Renaissance has since come to be recognized as the period of extraordinary poetic experimentation that it was. Never since have the possibilities of poetic form and, especially, poetic voice—from the sublime to the scandalous and slangy—been so various and inviting. This is poetry that speaks directly across the centuries to the renaissance of poetic exploration in our own time.John Williams’s celebrated anthology includes not only some of the most famous poems by some of the most famous poets of the English language (Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Donne, and of course Shakespeare) but also-—-and this is what makes Williams’s book such a rare and rich resource—the strikingly original work of little-known masters like George Gascoigne and Fulke Greville.
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Counterpoint That Distant Land: The Collected Stories
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Soft Skull Press I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems
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The Library of America American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century: A
Book SynopsisAt last in a deluxe collector's edition boxed set, the most complete and authoritative anthology of 19th century American poetry ever published.
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The Library of America The Heart of American Poetry
Book SynopsisAn acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American traditionWe live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what?s best in us.In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew?from Anne Bradstreet?s ?The Author to Her Book? and Phillis Wheatley?s ?To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works? to Garrett Hongo?s ?Ancestral Graves, Kahuku? and Joy Harjo?s ?Rabbit Is Up to Tricks??exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation.?This is a personal book about American poetry,? writes Hirsch, ?but I hope it is more than a personal selection. I have chosen forty poems from our extensive archive and songbook that have been meaningful to me,part of my affective life, my critical consideration, but I have also tried to be cognizant of the changing playbook in American poetry, which is not fixed but fluctuating, ever in flow, to pay attention to the wider consideration, the appreciable reach of our literature. This is a book of encounters and realizations.?
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University of New Orleans Press On a Wednesday Night: Poems from the Creative
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