Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
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Poets like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets, accompanied by his own enlivening commentary. In this personal anthology ...Show more
Shakespeare on Love by Stephen Brennan
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William Shakespeare is ubiquitous throughout the Western world as the master of the written word, and the above-quoted "Sonnet 18" is celebrated as one of the most exquisite love poems of all time. Love comes in all forms-friendly, familial, unrequited, and lustful-and impressively, the bard's canon wor ...Show more
Selected Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Poetry | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
'Shall I embrace you, must I let you go? Again you haunt me: come then, hold me fast!' Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical and the works selected in this volume represent over sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus' he rails against religi ...Show more
Selected Poems and Fragments: Holderlin by Jeremy Michael; Adler Michael (TRN); Hamburger Jeremy (EDT); Hamburger Friedrich; Adler Holderlin
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and his ...Show more
Selected Poems (Tsvetaeva, Marina) by Marina Tsvetaeva
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Transtromer: Selected Poems (Reissue) (Pr Only): Selected Poems (Reissue) by Tomas Transtromer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Modern European Poets Ser.
Tomas TranstrÖmer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth century. ...Show more
W. H. Auden: Selected Poems by W.H. Auden
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Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's "Selected Poems" (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the ...Show more
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth- ...Show more
Selected Poems: Kenneth Slessor by Kenneth Slessor
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One of Australia's finest poets, Kenneth Slessor would be outstanding in any company. His brilliance of technique gives an impression of unconscious mastery in poems that are always arresting in conception and illuminating in image. Slessor was born in 1901 in Orange, New South Wales. He was educated in ...Show more
Selected Poems by Victor Hugo; Brooks Haxton (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was know foremost as a poet-indeed the greatest French poet of the age. He wrote with pa ...Show more
William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
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In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech and direct observation of the landscape and people of his native New Jersey, his po ...Show more