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The Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 1: Medievals to Marlowe (Yesterday's Classics)The Oxford Book of English Verse brings together the best poetry in English. Part 1 offers the reader a surprisingly impartial cross section of British poetry from the 13th to the 16th centuries, including madrigals, ballads, devotional works, and much more. From the ornate...
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (In Full Color)A visionary of eighteen-century English art, William Blake was largely unknown during his own lifetime and often rejected as a madman for claims of hearing voices and later having visions. Since his death, Blake has achieved enduring fame for his innovative and extraordinary work...
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The Love We Leave BehindThis book is a dream-one I've carried since I first discovered poetry and began writing in my forties. For much of my life, the words lived quietly within me, waiting. This book holds some of the words that stayed with me-the ones that moved...
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The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank StanfordBetween 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this...
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The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation"Mr. Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics." ―The Atlantic Monthly Anger be now your song, immortal...
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The Hate PoemsJohn Tottenham writes poetry. But don't hold that against him. It's the kind of poetry that is accessible to people who don't read poetry, i.e. everybody. This new collection, 'The Hate Poems', presents a further elaboration on the themes addressed in his two earlier...
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The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)John Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., "the best poem by the best poet." The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of human accomplishment in...
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The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal)Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.First...
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The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems"These are the poems of a master poet. . . . When you read these poems, you will learn to hear deeply the sound a soul makes as it sings about the mystery of dreaming and becoming." -- Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, U.S. Poet...
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The Complete Poems of John KeatsWith an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on...
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The Complete PoemsA captivating collection of enduring verse by one of the Victorian era's most beloved poets Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as...
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The Collected PoemsThe early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. But despite the power of his poems about loss, Kunitz...
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The Boy Kingdom / El Reino de Los Varones: Poems / PoemasJust in time for Hispanic Heritage Month comes another brilliant bilingual poetry collection by Achy Obejas--a meditation on being a queer mom to two sons These 44 prose poems, artful yet accessible, presented in both Spanish and English versions, immerse us in the boy...
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The Black MariaTimely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.Author: Aracelis GirmayPublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 04/12/2016Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781942683025Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/21/2016Library Journal 04/01/2016 pg. 97Booklist 04/15/2016 pg....
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The Bacchae and Other PlaysThe plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and...
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The atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorlessBloodied, but still singing, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless addresses America. In one take, a chromapoetics that examines the "red, white and blue's" dubious semiotics, in another, an extended ode project that conjures our emblems of Empire, the poems in...
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The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of SongWith intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate...
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The Aeneid of VirgilAeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man...
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The Aeneid"I sing of arms and of the man" After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas - Augustus' legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided...
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John DonneWinner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed a Best...
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