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The Do-Over

Kathleen Ossip

The Do-Over

Highly anticipated book: Ossip's previous poetry collection, The Cold War, received rave reviews from The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Huffington Post, American Poet and many others. Craig Teicher at Publishers Weekly called it his favorite book of the year.Broad appeal: These poems are both melancholy and funny, and incorporate accessible references to popular culture.Extensive tour appearances: Ossip is using a semester sabbatical to promote the book and tour widely. University...

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Kathleen Ossip

The Diviners

Robert McDowell

The Diviners

A book-length poem that brilliantly reinvents narrative poetry,  The Diviners  is a single poem divided into five chapters, each a different decade. McDowell relates the most crucial developments in each decade spanning from the 1950s through 1990s, of the shared lives of Al, Eleanor, and their son, Tom.  The Diviners  records in blank verse the family’s beginnings, their growth, their problems, their separation, and their ultimate...

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Robert McDowell

The Diary of an Old Soul

George MacDonald

The Diary of an Old Soul

"The Diary of an Old Soul" is a collection of 366 daily Christian devotional poems by Scottish author, poet, and Christian Minister George MacDonald. Known primarily for his fantasy works and fairy tales, MacDonald was heavily influenced in his life and his writings by theology. This influence can easily be seen in «The Diary of an Old Soul» as well as in many of his fictional works too.

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George MacDonald

The Diary of an Old Soul

George MacDonald

The Diary of an Old Soul

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George MacDonald

The Debt

Andreae Callanan

The Debt

In the tradition of Williams’ Paterson, The Debt explores tensions between tradition and innovation, present and past, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. An argument for community in an increasingly isolated age, The Debt takes stock of all the dues we owe: to nature, to our ancestors, to one another and ourselves.

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Andreae Callanan

The Cultural Production of Matthew...

Antony H. Harrison

The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold

The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions. The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold investigates these constructions by situating Arnold’s poetry in a number of contexts that partially shaped it. Such analysis revises our understanding of the formation of the elite (and elitist) male literary-intellectual subject during the 1840s...

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Antony H. Harrison

The Crafty Poet: A Portable Worksho...

Diane Lockward

The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop

The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop is a poetry tutorial designed to inform and inspire poets. It includes model poems and prompts, writing tips, and interviews with poets. Organized into ten sections, the book covers such concepts as Diction, Sound, Voice, and Imagery. It is geared towards the experienced poet as well as those just getting started and is ideal for individual use at home or group use in the classroom or workshop. Contributors include fifty-six of our nation's finest...

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Diane Lockward

The Couple

Mark Rudman

The Couple

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Mark Rudman

The Contemptuary

David Foster

The Contemptuary

Monasteries and gaols: David Foster reflects that during the course of his life the monasteries have emptied while the gaols are doing nicely. Set in Goulburn and its surrounds, where Foster resides, The Contemptuary is a lament for a dying faith, a commentary on prison life and, perhaps unexpectedly from Foster in this, his sixteenth novel, an unputdownable whodunnit. 'Attempt to characterise Foster's writing and...

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David Foster

The Conference of the Birds (Bird P...

Farid ud-Din Attar

The Conference of the Birds (Bird Parliament)

Farid ud-Din Attar (1145/46 – 1221) was a Persian poet, druggist, and social theorist of Sufism, who wrote much of his poetry while treating hundreds of patients a day with his herbal remedies. As a young man he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and sought wisdom during his travels in Egypt, Damascus and India. His masterpiece, «The Conference of the Birds», has survived centuries because of its captivating poetic style and its symbolic exploration on the true nature of God. This 4500-line poem...

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Farid ud-Din Attar

The Conference of the Birds

Farid ud-Din Attar

The Conference of the Birds

Farid ud-Din Attar was a Persian poet, druggist, and social theorist of Sufism, who wrote much of his poetry while treating hundreds of patients a day with his herbal remedies. As a young man he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and sought wisdom during his travels in Egypt, Damascus, and India. His masterpiece, “The Conference of the Birds”, has survived centuries because of its captivating poetic style and its symbolic exploration on the true nature of God. This 4500-line poem follows the birds of...

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Farid ud-Din Attar

The Complete Works of George Herber...

George Herbert

The Complete Works of George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest George Herbert is one the most famous and popular of the metaphysical poets. The Poetry Foundation has described him as «a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skillful and important British devotional lyricist.» All of Herbert's surviving poems are religious in nature, characterized by their directness of expression and many of which employ an intricate rhyme scheme. Included in this...

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George Herbert

The Complete Shorter Poems of John...

Джон Мильтон

The Complete Shorter Poems of John Milton

John Milton is most famously remembered for his epic narrative «Paradise Lost» and its sequel «Paradise Regained». In addition to these classic works Milton wrote several shorter pieces. These shorter works are collected together in this volume and include the following: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity; A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV; Psalm CXXXVI; On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough; At a Vacation Exercise in the College, Part Latin, Part English; The Passion; On Shakespeare; On...

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Джон Мильтон

The Complete Poetry of William Blak...

Уильям Блейк

The Complete Poetry of William Blake

A visionary of eighteen-century English society, William Blake produced a huge collection of poetry, mythology, satires, political pieces, and prophetic works, in addition to his famous etchings and engravings. Although rejected as a madman during his lifetime for claims of hearing voices and later having visions, Blake has achieved notoriety as an innovative and extraordinarily imaginative artist. His poetry varies greatly in style and substance, reflecting the writer's literary...

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Уильям Блейк

The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis...

Роберт Стивенсон

The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, whose reputation came primarily from his novels and essays, including «Treasure Island» and «The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde». He is ranked among the 30 most translated authors in the world, ahead of Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe. Although his notoriety derives largely from his novels and essays, Stevenson produced a large collection of poetry that has been compared to that of William...

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Роберт Стивенсон

The Complete Poetry of Aimé C&...

Aimé Césaire

The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire

The Complete Poetry of Aim&#233; C&#233;saire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of C&#233;saire's poetic &#339;uvre made available in French in 2014 under the title Po&#233;sie, Th&#233;&#226;tre, Essais et Discours, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare the English...

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Aimé Césaire

The Complete Poetry

Cesar Vallejo

The Complete Poetry

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take...

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Cesar Vallejo

The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman

With the first publication of «Leaves of Grass» in 1855, Walt Whitman was solidified as an American poet of undeniable importance. The poems contained in that slim volume candidly spoke of politics, slavery, sexuality, consciousness, and the spiritual world. His content was as radical as his form; he utilized free verse unlike anyone before, creating a poetic tongue that was unique and personal yet universal and cosmic. Born in New York in 1819, Whitman came to represent the spirit of an...

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Walt Whitman

The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Leaves of Grass, 1855 Leaves of Grass, 1892 Old Age Echoes Uncollected and Rejected Poems Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass,...

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Walt Whitman

The Complete Poems of John Milton

Джон Мильтон

The Complete Poems of John Milton

John Milton, the 17th century English poet author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England is of course known best for his famous epic poem «Paradise Lost» which retells the biblical story of «The Fall of Man» and how Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan and ultimately expelled from the Garden of Eden. «Paradise Lost» is included in this volume of «The Complete Poems of John Milton» along with its sequel «Paradise Regained» and thirty-nine additional poems.

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Джон Мильтон

The Complete Poems of John Keats (w...

John Keats

The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges)

Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats is considered one of the most important figures in the second generation of English Romantic poets. Born on Halloween in 1795, John Keats lived a very short life, dying at the age of twenty-five from tuberculosis. In 1814 John Keats began an apprenticeship with Thomas Hammond, a surgeon and apothecary and by 1816 had achieved his apothecary’s license, which allowed him to practice medicine. However Keats passion lied elsewhere and by the...

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John Keats

The Complete Poems of John Keats

John Keats

The Complete Poems of John Keats

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature. Table of Contents: Introduction: Life of John Keats by Sidney Colvin Ode Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Apollo Ode...

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John Keats

The Complete Poems of John Donne

John Donne

The Complete Poems of John Donne

Born in 1572 in London England, John Donne was an English Jacobean poet of exceptional skill, whose poetry was known for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor. While Donne was well educated and his poetic talents considerable he struggled for much of his life to provide for his family. Having published only two volumes during his lifetime, he was not a professional poet. Despite this his legacy on the world of poetry is a significant one. In this volume you will find a complete...

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John Donne

The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte

Эмили Бронте

The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte

Emily Brontë (1818-1848), of the well-known Brontë family, is best known for her novel «Wuthering Heights», which has been deemed a classic of English literature. She wrote two complete notebooks of poetry by 1844, which were soon discovered by her sister, Charlotte. At Charlotte's urging, Emily began publishing the poems in collaborative works with her two sisters under the pseudonyms Acton, Ellis and Currer Bell. Emily's poems were praised by critics for their power and intellect,...

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Эмили Бронте

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