Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Heinemann Poetry Bookshelf
This series presents complete poems and generous excerpts from longer works. Each book includes a biographical and critical introduction, a commentary and notes on the poems.
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
"O pure of heart thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be " One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some o ...Show more
A Sackful of Limericks by Michael Palin
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Category: Poetry
If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar...If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack...And if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange way but aren't sure p ...Show more
Rosemary Dobson Collected by Rosemary Dobson
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Category: Poetry
The first full collection of the work of one of Australia's most prominent 20th-century poets. Since the publication of her first book in 1944, Rosemary Dobson has built a reputation as one of Australia's most important poets. This volume collects and celebrates the work of her long and distinguished ca ...Show more
Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto by Paul B. Janeczko
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Category: Poetry
Paul B. Janeczko's stirring new collection of poems goes inside the walls of the notorious camp to portray the indomitable spirit of those incarcerated there. Hitler hailed Terezin (Theresienstadt) as a haven for artistic Jews, when in reality the Czech concentration camp was little more than a way stat ...Show more
The Rattle Bag by Ted Hughes; Seamus Heaney (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary ...Show more
Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
First published in the 1920's, "The Prophet" an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, the book is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the Twentieth Century and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran's protagonist, called simply 'the "Prophet"', delivers ...Show more
Prepare The Cabin For Landing by Alan Wearne
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Category: Poetry
Alan Wearne is this countrys most public poet, a master of the Australian idiom, the recorder of its fashions, and the scourge of its big-noters, pretenders and crooks. They are the targets of the central poem in this collection, The Vanity of Australian Wishes, which draws on Samuel Johnson and Juvenal ...Show more
Poetry For Dummies by The Poetry Center, John Timpane
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Category: Poetry | Series: For Dummies Ser.
Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as "the best words in the best order." St. Augustine called it "the Devil's wine." For Shelley, poetry was "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." But no mat ...Show more
Poetry of the World Wars by Michael Foss
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Category: Poetry
The Great War of 1914-18 and the Second World War of 1939-45, told in the words of some of the most immediate and moving poetry in the language - a tribute to the triumph of the human spirit over the desolation and waste of war. This collection includes many of the most famous works by the leading war p ...Show more