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The following haiku verses, written in an American style, are departures from the exacting nature of this Japanese poem. By relaxing the restraints upon subject and style, the American poet gains the opportunity to experiment with and to possibly enhance the classic European examples. Although Japanese savants differ about the precise poetics of haiku, they agree that these short poems, highly successful since the thirteenth century, should be composed of three lines, the first and last bearing...
| Автор | David Seegal |
The publisher is proud to present this new edition of an old American favorite, authentically and unforgettably illustrated by a distinguished American artist.Artist-illustrator Herbert Meyer's illustrations give new life to Longfellow's epic poem. Besides being warmly evocative, they are historically authentic, for the artist did extensive research on the American Indians. Meyer's artistic vision does full justice to Longfellow's immortal epic, which is not only an American...
| Автор | Генри Уодсуорт Лонгфелло |
James Elliott Foster gives us over 100 poems and 40 illustrations to describe what he sees and how he feels about the world around him.<br><br>"Reflections" is a very personal and very unique view of the world, but it also speaks to the human condition…a condition each of us shares with Mr. Foster. <br><br>As Mr. Foster puts it, "While [each of us] will experience a different combination of moments, phases, and places, I'm hoping my...
| Автор | James Elliott Foster |
Composed by Alfred Tennyson as a requiem for his college friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1833, «In Memoriam A. H. H.» is a poem written over a seventeen year period and completed in 1849. Widely considered as one of the greatest poems of the Victorian era it is a richly lyrical work which meditates on the search for hope in the wake of a great loss. The length of this work and the period of time in which Tennyson took to complete it speaks volumes as to...
| Автор | Lord Alfred Tennyson |
Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity of «the dark lady» and the «lovely boy» to whom the vast majority are addressed. Controversy has also long simmered over the full name of the «W.H.» of the dedication. What is not in dispute is the superior quality of these lyrics, which rank among the finest sonnets ever written — in any language.Overt 150 poems deal with love,...
| Автор | Уильям Шекспир |
One of the greatest English poets, John Keats (1795–1821) created an astonishing body of work before his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 26. Much of his poetry consists of deeply felt lyrical meditations on a variety of themes—love, death, the transience of joy, the impermanence of youth and beauty, the immortality of art, and other topics—expressed in verse of exquisite delicacy, originality, and sensuous richness. This collection contains 30 of his...
| Автор | John Keats |
Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) called himself «an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven.» His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet but the object of a cult unique in British poetry. The present volume contains 43 of his finest poems and songs, reprinted unabridged...
| Автор | Robert Burns |
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 |
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 |