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1) Love poems
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul. Includes poems by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W.H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, E E. Cummings,...
6) Poems
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of ballads, narrative poems, epigrams, odes, and other poetry, from "Mandalay" and "If" to less-familiar poems.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the first of the great American modernist poets. "No poet ever understood loneliness and separateness better than Robinson," James Dickey has observed. Robinson's lyric poems illuminate the hearts and minds of the most unlikely subjects--the downtrodden, the bereft, and the misunderstood. Even while writing in meter and rhyme, he used everyday language with unprecedented...
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Poems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form. Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era, we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keats's Grecian urn and Shelley's...
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Raymond Queneau and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers a one-volume introduction to this rich and varied poetic tradition. Great writers of past centuries--La Fontaine, Francois Villon, Christine de Pizan, Marguerite de Navarre, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarme, Apollinaire, and many more--mingle with such diverse representatives of the modern...
17) Poems of London
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of poems from the middle ages to the present on the subject of London"--
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Poets from around the world celebrate the universal appeal of the comforts of home in this unique anthology. Whether inhabited or remembered, whether solitary or teeming with family, whether a refuge from the world or a connection to a community, home is essential to the self. The poems in this anthology invite us into urban apartments and cozy cottages, stately mansions and hermits' huts. We watch a medieval housewife explain how she has spent...