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Young poet established in the New York poetry scenePopular teacher of poetry at various institutions, including The New School, NYU, ColumbiaJohn Ashbery thinks he is brilliant.
| Автор | Mark Bibbins |
The best-known works of more than 60 British and American poets, written over a period of nearly 400 years, comprise this superb collection of verse. Focusing on poems of faith — inspiring, comforting, and profound works with religious themes and ideals — the volume includes «Holy Sonnets» by John Donne, Ben Jonson's «To the Holy Trinity,» «Paradise» by George Herbert, «On His Blindness» by John Milton, as well as poems by Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Edward Taylor,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow includes some of his most memorable and popular verse. In «Evangeline», arguably his most famous work, we have the story of an Acadian girl who searches for her lost love Gabriel during the time of the Great Upheaval. «Evangeline and Other Selected Poems» is altogether a collection of thirty-nine poems including an abridged selection from «The Song of Hiawatha».
| Автор | Генри Уодсуорт Лонгфелло |
In the sphere of poets like Swift, Meredith and Kipling, Thomas Hardy is today becoming recognized as one of the greatest English poets of this century. As a young man with interests in journalism, art, and architecture, Hardy achieved greatness in the fiction genre early on, writing novels for a living until his mid-fifties. He then abandoned fiction entirely in order to devote himself to his true passion—poetry. This ample selection of poems demonstrates Hardy's experimentation with...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
When Robert W. Service was transferred to the Whitehorse Branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the Yukon Territory in 1904, six years after the Klondike Gold Rush, his career as a world-famous poet would soon begin. Inspired by the beauty of the Yukon wilderness, Service would write some of the most expressive poetry of the age depicting the trials and tribulations of the Yukon gold mining life. «Best Tales of the Yukon» collects together forty-seven of these poems. Selected from two of his...
| Автор | Robert W. Service |
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), the reclusive and intensely private poet saw only a few of her poems (she wrote well over a thousand) published during her life. After discovering a trove of manuscripts left in a wooden box, Dickinson's sister Lavinia fortunately chose to disobey Emily's wishes for her work to be burned after death. With the help of Amherst professors, Lavinia brought her sister's gifted verse into print. It is here, in «The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson», that...
| Автор | Эмили Дикинсон |
Jim Harrison is one of the leading writers in America His last book of poems, Songs of Unreason, sold 5500 in hardback and hit #1 on the Poetry Foundation Best Sellers List Along with Ted Kooser, W.S. Merwin, and Pablo Neruda, Harrison is one of Copper Canyon’s best-selling poets Every Harrison book Copper Canyon publishes is well reviewed and earns book awards and accolades, including multiple “Book of the Year” listings Another sublime Russell Chatham painting on the cover
| Автор | Jim Harrison |
Very tuned into popular culture Josh Bell teaches poetry writing workshops at Harvard Josh Bell's first book was named one of Flavorwire's 50 Essential Books of Poetry.
| Автор | Josh Bell |
"The Faerie Queen" is a marvelous epic poem depicting the virtues of the legendary King Arthur and his knights in a mythical land. Edmund Spenser's masterpiece is an intricately woven plot set in an inventive and fanciful setting. Written in appreciation for the Queen this work stands as a major literary achievement. In addition to «The Faerie Queen,» Edmund Spenser also wrote a number of other significant poems. His first major poetical work «The Shepherd's Calendar» begins this...
| Автор | Edmund Spenser |
Although known best for his sweeping allegorical epic «The Faerie Queen,» Edmund Spenser wrote a number of other significant poems. His first major poetical work «The Shepherd's Calendar» begins this collection of his «Selected Shorter Poems.» An emulation of Virgil's «Eclogues,» «The Shepherd's Calendar» depicts the life of shepherd Colin Clout through the twelve months of his year. The twelve eclogues of the poem, each named after a different month, discuss abuses of the church,...
| Автор | Edmund Spenser |
Between the years of 1797-1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote what are considered his most important poetic works. Among them are the famous «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner», «Kubla Khan», and «Christabel». Also during this period he wrote his much-heralded 'conversation poems' of which includes «This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison», «Frost at Midnight», and «The Nightingale». These great poems can all be found in this volume along with many others. Forty-one poems in all written between...
| Автор | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
The nine lyric poets were a canon of archaic Greek composers esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study. The most famous of which is probably Sappho, who was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE on the Greek island of Lesbos. The famous Library of Alexandria collected Sappho's poems into nine books; however these editions have been lost. Today only fragments of the poetess' work remains. These fragments are collected together here in this volume of...
| Автор | Sappho |
In response to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for the United States to have its own unique poet, Walt Whitman rose to the challenge to create what would ultimately be his most profound work. Taking its title from the colloquial term «grass», meaning a work of minor value, Whitman's «Leaves of Grass» is anything but that. Over his lifetime Whitman would continue to expand and revise his most famous book up until his death in 1892. Here in this volume we reproduce the short collection of...
| Автор | Walt Whitman |
Name another American poet who has been honored with a limited edition replica of his race-car—“Dan Gerber’s 1965 Shelby R-Model” Gerber is an ordained Zen priest A previous Gerber poetry title received Foreword magazine's “Best Book of the Year” Award Gerber's work has appeared in many national publications, including The New Yorker; Poetry; Playboy; Sports Illustrated; The Nation
| Автор | Dan Gerber |
Brimhall’s poetry has been featured in The New Yorker, Slate, Best American Poetry, and PBS Newshour—so wide public appeal. Fascinating, unique, unexamined subject—an investigation into and narrative of the legends and strange happenings of an Amazon River town, and of the people and historical situations there. Subject matter of book intricately connected to author’s intriguing family story.
| Автор | Traci Brimhall |
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.
| Автор | Джон Мильтон |
This selection from Baudelaire's 'The Flowers Of Evil' (Le Fleurs Du Mal) contains the following poems: Benediction, Echoes, The Sick Muse, The Venal Muse, The Evil Monk, The Enemy, Man and the Sea, Beauty, The Ideal, The Giantess, Hymn to Beauty, Exotic Perfume, La Chevelure, Sonnet XXVIII, Posthumous Remorse, The Balcony, The Possessed One, Semper Eadem, All Entire, Sonnet XLIII, The Living Torch, The Spiritual Dawn, Evening Harmony, Overcast Sky, Invitation to a Journey,...
| Автор | Charles Baudelaire |
The youngest of the well-known Brontë siblings, Anne Brontë (1820-1849) grew up drawing and writing poetry in secret. As a child, Anne spent countless hours on the Yorkshire moors with her sister, Emily, creating an imaginary world called Gondal. Anne attended school at age fifteen, and there she experienced an episode of spiritual crisis, which is evidenced in many of her poems. She later worked as a governess before collaborating with her sisters, Emily and Charlotte, on a collection of poetry...
| Автор | Anne Bronte |
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...
| Автор | Роберт Стивенсон |
Ralph Waldo Emerson is best known as being a leader of the transcendentalist movement, a philosophy that emerged in the mid 19th century in New England. Transcendentalism was a general protest against established society and culture at the time that sought an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions. In this collection, which includes such...
| Автор | Ralph Waldo Emerson |