A Library of Poetry and Song
Title | A Library of Poetry and Song PDF eBook |
Author | William Cullen Bryant |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 890 |
Release | 2018-08-11 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781390960709 |
Excerpt from A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections From the Best Poets, With an Introduction The Publishers take pleasure in believing that many readers will find in this volume inducements to seek complete editions of favorite American poets, in order to become better acquainted with those authors whose writings have made this compilation so complete in the poetical literature of our own land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Library of World Poetry
Title | Library of World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 789 |
Release | 1970* |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
Title | The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | J. D. McClatchy |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1996-06-25 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0679741151 |
This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott
World Poetry
Title | World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Katharine Washburn |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Pages | 1338 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780393041309 |
An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century
The Illustrated Library of World Poetry
Title | The Illustrated Library of World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | William Cullen Bryant |
Publisher | Gramercy |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780517226865 |
Arranged by category from friendship and humor to religion and tragedy, this popular collection represents the work of familiar poets including Longfellow, Shelley, Browning, Shakespeare, Whittier, and hundreds more. Black and white woodcut engravings and facsimile manuscripts enhance the charm of this volume.
Poems of the Sea
Title | Poems of the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | J. D. McClatchy |
Publisher | Everyman Chess |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Sea poetry |
ISBN | 9781841597461 |
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies next to Poe's beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five." And here is Masefield's "I must go down to the seas again" alongside Cavafy's "Ithaka" and Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West." In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planet's restless
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA #96)
Title | Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA #96) PDF eBook |
Author | Wallace Stevens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1064 |
Release | 1997-10 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
Collected Poetry and Prose.