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Author |
Title |
Format |
Pages |
Release |
Publisher |
Genre |
| 1437 |
Robert Browning |
Poems of Robert Browning |
Hardcover |
256 |
01 Dec 2008 |
Easton Press |
Poetry |
Poems of Robert Browning Robert Browning
ISBN:
ListPrice: 34.50
Edition: Collector's Edition
Illustrator: Robert Galster
Dimensions: 0.72 x 7.86 x 4.46 in
Editor: Rosemary Sprague
Series: Library of Great Poetry
ReaderRating: 5.0 (1 votes)
Dewey: 821.8
DateAdded: 14 Dec 2008
Summary: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.
This collection presents the Brownings' work in the context of their lives: the early years and their initial friendship, their courtship and marriage, the fifteen happy years they spent living in Italy until Elizabeth's death. Both in shorter poems such as Elizabeth's "Hector in the Garden” and Robert's "Natural Magic," or in extracts from longer works such as "Aurora Leigh" and" Pauline, "the great themes they shared are all represented: love, marriage, illicit passion, England and Italy, childhood, religion, poetry, and nature.
Elizabeth's famous "Sonnets from the Portuguese," based on their love affair, is included in its entirety. The poems are augmented with a generous selection of the marvellous letters the Brownings wrote to each other.
Subjects Poetry
Anthologies (multiple authors)
General
Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)
1806-1861
1812-1889
19th century
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
Browning, Robert,
Correspondence
English poetry
Poets, English
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| 1438 |
Robert Frost |
Poems of Robert Frost |
Hardcover |
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01 Oct 2008 |
Easton Press |
Poetry |
Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost
ISBN:
ListPrice: 5.95
Edition: Collector's Edition
Editor: Library of Great Poetry
DateAdded: 18 Oct 2008
Summary:
Subjects
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| 1439 |
Homer |
The Iliad |
Hardcover |
704 |
01 Nov 1998 |
Easton Press |
Poetry |
The Iliad Homer
ISBN: 9780140275360
ListPrice: 45.00
Edition: Collector's Edition
Translator: Alexander Pope
Series: 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
ReaderRating: 4.5 (131 votes)
DateAdded: 02 Apr 2008
Summary: This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an "Iliad" that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The "Iliad" is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the "Iliad" is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.
Subjects Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval
Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval
Poetry
Ancient (Classical) Greek
Classics
Continental European
Poetry / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Achilles (Greek mythology)
Trojan War
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| 1440 |
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost |
Three Great American Poets |
Hardcover |
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01 Dec 1996 |
Tally Hall Press |
Poetry |
Three Great American Poets Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
ISBN: 0681219173
ListPrice: $15.99
Edition: Collected
Summary:
Subjects
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| 1441 |
Dante Alighieri |
The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso |
Hardcover |
960 |
01 Aug 1995 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 0679433139
ListPrice: $24.00
Edition: Reprint
ReaderRating: 4.5 (41 votes)
DateAdded: 13 Dec 2006
Summary: "The Divine Comedy" begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
Allen Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.
This Everyman’s edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.
Subjects Classics
Continental European
Italian Poetry
Poetry
Poetry / Single Author / Continental European
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| 1442 |
William Shakespeare |
The Sonnets and Narrative Poems |
Hardcover |
304 |
01 Dec 1992 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
The Sonnets and Narrative Poems William Shakespeare
ISBN: 0679417419
ListPrice: $19.00
Edition: Collected
ReaderRating: 5.0 (3 votes)
DateAdded: 13 Dec 2006
Summary: If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he left behind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchy of world literature. The strikingly modern sonnets–intimate, baroque, and expansive at once; the invigorating narratives drawn from classical subjects; and the flawless lyricism represented by a poem like “The Phoenix and the Turtle”–permanently deepen our understanding of the multiplicity and extravagant energy of our greatest poet.
Subjects English Poetry
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Narrative poetry, English
Poetry
Sonnets, English
Poetry / Single Author / Other
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| 1443 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Hardcover |
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01 Nov 1991 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN: 0679406697
ListPrice: $20.00
Edition: Collected
ReaderRating: 4.5 (2 votes)
DateAdded: 13 Dec 2006
Summary: "Kubla Khan." "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." "The Eolian Harp." Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a genius who wrote some of the greatest poems in the history of the English language. Together with his friend William Wordsworth, he provided the best articulation of Romanticism, as well as some of the most powerful examples of that aesthetic. This collection, from the excellent Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, includes not only Coleridge's poetry, but also some selections from his insightful essays and letters about poetry. But of course, it's the poems that count the most, as evidenced by this excerpt from one of Coleridge's less legendary works, his beautiful tribute "To William Wordsworth," which was written after hearing his friend give an especially moving reading. These sentiments could easily apply to the author himself: "The tumult rose and ceased: for Peace is nigh / Where Wisdom's voice has found a listening heart."
Subjects 19th Century English Poetry
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature: Classics
Poetry
Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
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| 1444 |
John Donne |
The Complete English Poems |
Hardcover |
576 |
01 Oct 1991 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
The Complete English Poems John Donne
ISBN: 0679405585
ListPrice: $22.00
Edition: Collected
ReaderRating: 4.5 (3 votes)
DateAdded: 13 Dec 2006
Summary: Introduction by C. A. Patrides
Subjects English Poetry
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature: Classics
Poetry
Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
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| 1445 |
John Keats |
The Poems |
Hardcover |
640 |
01 Apr 1992 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
The Poems John Keats
ISBN: 0679405534
ListPrice: $20.00
Edition: Collected
ReaderRating: 5.0 (4 votes)
DateAdded: 13 Dec 2006
Summary: Introduction by David Bromwich
Subjects 19th Century English Poetry
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Poetry
Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
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| 1446 |
Robert W Service |
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man |
Hardcover |
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13 Dec 1916 |
Barse & Hopkins |
Poetry |
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man Robert W Service
ISBN: B000DIMG2Y
ListPrice: 375.00
Edition: First Edition
ReaderRating: 5.0 (1 votes)
DateAdded: 13 Dec 2006
Comments: Fine condition. Slight rubbing at the top and bottom of spine
Summary: Collection of poems by author who served in World War I.
Subjects
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| 1447 |
Carmela Ciuraru |
Doggerel: Poems About Dogs |
Hardcover |
256 |
01 Nov 2003 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
Doggerel: Poems About Dogs Carmela Ciuraru
ISBN: 140004037X
ListPrice: $12.50
Edition: First Edition
Editor: Carmela Ciuraru
ReaderRating: 4.0 (1 votes)
DateAdded: 10 Dec 2006
Summary: From Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, "Doggerel" presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes ever offered to our beloved canine companions.
The rich and assorted cadences of some of the most distinguished poets across the centuries ring out from these pages–from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Pope to Merrill, Merwin, and Muldoon–celebrating pooches of every pedigree and persuasion. Here is Margaret Cavendish’s barking chorus of beagles on the hunt; Elizabeth Bishop’s “Pink Dog” alongside Robyn Selman’s “My Dog is Named for Elizabeth Bishop”; Charles Baxter’s villanelle “Dog Kibble,” whose dog-narrator decides that “Life isn’t meaningless because there’s food”; and the desultory charms of Jane Kenyon’s unleashed dog, nuzzling about on a drizzly afternoon.
From lazy dogs curled up by the fireplace to audacious hounds howling at the moon, from mutts to purebreds, puppies to old dogs, "Doggerel" is an irresistible gathering of fast and faithful friends.
Subjects American poetry
Anthologies (multiple authors)
Dogs
English poetry
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Poetry
Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)
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| 1448 |
Caroline Kennedy |
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis |
Hardcover |
192 |
30 Sep 2001 |
Hyperion |
Poetry |
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis Caroline Kennedy
ISBN: 0786868090
ListPrice: $21.95
Edition: First Edition
ReaderRating: 4.5 (23 votes)
DateAdded: 05 Dec 2006
Summary: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. Once you can express yourself, she wrote, you can tell the world what you want from it. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mothers favorite poems by such renowned authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, and Robert Frost. The book also includes a poem written by Jacqueline Kennedy and is illustrated with photographs of the Kennedy clan. This is a wonderful volume for reading aloud or by yourself and a meaningful gift or keepsake for Mothers Day.
Subjects Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Anthologies (multiple authors)
Collections
Poetry
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| 1449 |
G. Gordon, Lord Byron |
Byron: Poems |
Hardcover |
288 |
01 Oct 1994 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
Byron: Poems G. Gordon, Lord Byron
ISBN: 0679436308
ListPrice: $12.50
Edition: First Edition
Summary: To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, satiric gifts, and utter inability to be boring have made him one of the great comic spirits in our literature.
Subjects English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Poetry
Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
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| 1450 |
William Blake |
Blake: Poems |
Hardcover |
288 |
01 Oct 1994 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
Blake: Poems William Blake
ISBN: 0679436332
ListPrice: $12.50
Edition: First Edition
ReaderRating: 4.5 (2 votes)
DateAdded: 05 Dec 2006
Summary: These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including "Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience", poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from "The Prophetic Books", and an index of first lines.
Subjects English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Poetry
Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
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| 1451 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Coleridge: Poems |
Hardcover |
256 |
01 Nov 1997 |
Everyman's Library |
Poetry |
Coleridge: Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN: 0375400729
ListPrice: $12.50
Edition: First Edition
ReaderRating: 4.5 (2 votes)
DateAdded: 05 Dec 2006
Summary: "Kubla Khan." "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." "The Eolian Harp." Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a genius who wrote some of the greatest poems in the history of the English language. Together with his friend William Wordsworth, he provided the best articulation of Romanticism, as well as some of the most powerful examples of that aesthetic. This collection, from the excellent Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, includes not only Coleridge's poetry, but also some selections from his insightful essays and letters about poetry. But of course, it's the poems that count the most, as evidenced by this excerpt from one of Coleridge's less legendary works, his beautiful tribute "To William Wordsworth," which was written after hearing his friend give an especially moving reading. These sentiments could easily apply to the author himself: "The tumult rose and ceased: for Peace is nigh / Where Wisdom's voice has found a listening heart."
Subjects English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Poetry
Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
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| 1452 |
William Shakespeare |
Shakespeares Sonnets |
Hardcover |
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01 Feb 1994 |
Barnes Noble Books |
Poetry |
Shakespeares Sonnets William Shakespeare
ISBN: 088029941X
ListPrice: $0.45
Edition: Reprint
Summary: From Our Editors
This lovely little volume contains all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, all strikingly beautiful poetry that was written throughout the Bard's life. Each sonnet is presented on its own page with a surrounding leaf design, so the sonnets stand on their own as individual works. Love, betrayal, despair, commitment, regret, spirituality, life, and death are explored in this eloquent poems penned by the greatest playwright and poet in the English language. Contains an index of first lines. 5" x 7 1/2".
From the Publisher
The most celebrated love poems in the English language, the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare, written from 1593-1601, are read by actor Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love).
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