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Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"She is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He an accountant, dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. A storm of romance and slapstick, of heavenly and earthly delights, in this dystopian philosophical poem about individual freedom and the search for the good life."--Back cover.
3) John Donne
Author
Series
Publisher
C.N. Potter
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A selection of the poet's work accompanied by paintings and miniatures of the period by European artists.
4) Bone
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart, life, and the inner self. Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence--so clear and pared-down, they become universal. From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society's expectations with the raw...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From England's former Poet Laureate, a collection spanning his celebrated career, presented for the first time by an American publisher. Andrew Motion has said, "I want my writing to be as clear as water. I want readers to see all the way through its surfaces into the swamp." Though the territory of his exploration may be murky and mired--the front lines of war, political entanglements, romantic longing, and human suffering--Motion's conversational...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This selection of Ted Hughes's poetry, made by the author himself in 1995, includes poems from every phase of his four-decade career. Here are poems from Hughes's first book, "The Hawk in the Rain, and its successor, "Lupercal, which introduced him as a major poet; from "Wodwo, "Crow, and "Gaudete, book-length poetic sequences in which the natural world is made into a thrilling and terror-filled analogue to our human one; and from six volumes of his...
15) 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
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry. This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840--1928), edited by David Bromwich, covers the range of Hardy's extraordinary work: songs, ballads, and sonnets, dramatic monologues and elegies, along with poems that mark epochal events, such as the end of the Great War. This...
18) Seeing things
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Collection of poems whose themes deal with memories, textures, and sensations of the world.
19) Up late: poems
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart lies the title sequence, a profound meditation on a father's dying, the reverberations...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 5
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
This edition, compiled and introduced by C.A. Patrides, is recognized as the most complete and scholarly one-volume collection of the poetical works of John Donne. Introduction by C.A. Patrides.
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