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Emily Fragos
[Hardbound 2006]
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A celebration in verse of the silent poetry of dance and the dancer, this anthology features a dizzying range of subjects: Chinese dagger dances and Hindu festival dances, belly dancers and whirling dervishes, high school proms and wedding waltzes, tango, tarantella, flamenco, modern dance, reels and jigs, disco, and ballet.... more
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Meena Alexander
[Hardbound 2005]
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According to the Kama Sutra," "the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion " there is no textbook at all, and no order." "Indian Love Poems" is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that... more
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Kevin Young
[Hardcover 2006]
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Since its inception in the 1920s, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry, and this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems as varied and vital as the music that inspired them. Includes poems by Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, and Gwendolyn Brooks. High school & older. Ever since... more
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Peter Washington
[Paperback 1997]
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A new collection of songs, sonnets and lyric poems that focus on love in the widest sense, encompassing relationships of all kinds. This volume includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorthy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem To My Husband. Shakespeare is here, of course, and... more
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John Hollander
[Hardcover 2005]
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From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jerrell to James Merrill, the author draws on 3,000 years of poetic forays into the supernatural to assemble this ghoulish literary parade. A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages-a literary parade of... more
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William Blake
[Paperback 2006]
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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by Kathleen Raine This volume, introduced by Max Plowman, who edited the selection, consists first of works printed and illustrated by Blake; among these are: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of... more
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Gerard Carruthers
[Hardcover 2009]
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In time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns) comes a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present. The poems in this collection are marked by a passionate lyrical intensity that demonstrate... more
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John Hollander
[Hardcover 1999]
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From Homer and Virgil to Byron and Yeats, from Shelley and Whitman to Auden and Stevens, from ancient China's anonymous bards to Poland's Mickiewicz and Israel's Amichai, poets of all times, places, and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. Here are more than one hundred of their most... more
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William Shakespeare
[Paperback 1963]
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The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of The Poems provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as... more
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William Wordsworth
[Paperback 1991]
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One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the... more
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William Wordsworth ,
John O Hayden
[Paperback 2009]
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Volume: 1 Publisher: London : Methuen Publication date: 1908 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from... more
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Aesop ,
Stephen Gooden ,
Roger L Estrange
[Paperback 2010]
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Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The wonderful tales attributed to him--in which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, and others suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) be--have been universal "best-sellers" since before... more
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Carmela Ciuraru
[Hardcover 2005]
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A literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called "sessions of sweet silent thought," this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering "lonely as a cloud"; Poe confiding "all I loved, I loved alone"; Yeats's communion with "the deep heart's core"; and Han Shan's heart... more
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Robert Goddard
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A beloved classic once again available in the U.S. "An engaging mystery novel with a literary angle that will make comparisons to A.S. Byatt and P.D. James" ("Washington Post Book World"), "Hand in Glove" is steeped in history, atmosphere, and intrigue. In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an... more
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Christopher Reid
[Hardcover 1992]
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Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to... more
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Alexander Pushkin ,
Charles Johnston ,
John Bayley
[Paperback 1979]
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A translation of Pushkin's sober, elegant, witty, fluent, affable, graceful, sad novel in verse, "Eugene Onegin". 'We'd both drunk passion's chalice ? there waited for us both the malice of blind Fortuna' Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersburg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to the country... more
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Thomas Hardy
[Paperback 1999]
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This second edition of his "selected poems" contains 13 additional poems, including ten new sonnets for "The School of Eloquence" and his remarkable long poem "V". Four beautiful titles as part of a major relaunch of Penguin's contemporary poetry. This generous selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes sixty-three poems from... more
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William Shakespeare
[Paperback 1964]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time... more
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Robert Burns
[Paperback 2011]
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This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red... more
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Hilaire Belloc
[Paperback 1995]
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One of the great classics of comic poetry, this special omnibus edition has original illustrations by B.T.B and new pictures and an introduction by Quentin Blake. Includes lots of childrens favourites such as >Matilda School Librarian This omnibus of Belloc's stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme... more
