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The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. - Paperback

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by Robert Burns (Author) Number of Pages: 560 Dimensions: 1.14 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2006

Poems, by William Cullen Bryant. Collected and Arranged by the Author. - Paperback

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by William Cullen Bryant (Author) Number of Pages: 376 Dimensions: 0.78 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2006

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by Frank O'Hara (Author)Essential poems by the late New York poet.Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry.Edited by the poet in collaboration with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Donald Allen, who had published O'Hara's poems in his monumental The New American Poetry in 1960, it contains some of the poet's best known works including "The Day ...

The Oxford Book of English Verse - Hardcover

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by Christopher Ricks (Editor)Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding." The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen Gardner, has established itself as the foremost anthology of English poetry: ample in span, liberal in the kinds of poetry presented. This completely fresh selectio...

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by Homer (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and...

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by Maya Angelou (Author)The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou's words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning" Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life. Every poetic phrase, every poignant verse can be found withi...

By Reason of Breakings: Poems - Paperback

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by Andrew Zawacki (Author)By Reason of Breakings, Andrew Zawacki's first book of poetry, overwhelms and silences by virtue of its extremely austere beauty. In highly wrought lyrics, prose poems, fragments of apocrypha, and splintered efforts at song, this volume is forceful and haunted by doubt. Each intimate and restrained line is a glimpse at a wisdom that defies paraphrase, each image carefully chosen and constructed. Zawacki's language summons and invites and is almost menacing in its del...

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by Sylvia Plath (Author)"Sylvia Plath's last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name." -- The Critical QuarterlySylvia Plath's celebrated collection.When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific oeuvre but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. Ted Hughes helped bring the collection to life in 1966, and its publication garnered wor...

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by Rumi (Author), Haleh Liza Gafori (Translator), Haleh Liza Gafori (Editor)A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an American poet of Persian descent. Rumi's poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. They remain masterpieces of world literature to which readers in many languages continually return for...

The Iliad & the Odyssey (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) - Hardcover

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by Homer (Author) Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece with Homer's timeless epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. In The Iliad, witness the ravages of the Trojan War as gods and mortals clash in a tale of honor, heroism, and the consequences of unchecked pride. Then, journey alongside Odysseus in The Odyssey as he battles mythical creatures, evades vengeful gods, ad strives to return home, navigating treacherous seas and testing the limits of human resilience. These masterpieces o...

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by Emily Dickinson (Author), Jen Bervin (Editor), Marta Werner (Editor)Although a very prolific poet--and arguably America's greatest--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and at her death she left behind many poems, drafts, and letters. It is among the makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson's l...

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by Homer (Author), E. V. Rieu (Translator), D. C. H. Rieu (Revised by)Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatu...

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by Rita Dove (Author)A collection of poetry by Rita Dove. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1986 Award: Pulitzer Prize (1987)

The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted - Hardcover

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by Julene Abad del Vecchio (Author)The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several new readings of the Achilleid in relation to its literary inheritance, its gender dynamics, and its generic tensions. This volume delves beneath the surface of a story that ostensibly deals wit...

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by Larrington (Author)"She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish." After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandicmythological and h...

The Puritan Literary Tradition - Hardcover

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by Johanna Harris (Editor), Alison Searle (Editor)What is meant by the puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of puritan literature, as distinct from puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging literary subjects that help to articulate the puritan literary tradition, including: political polemic and the performing arts; conversion and new-world narratives; individ...

Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections - Hardcover

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by Lorna Hardwick (Author), Stephen Harrison (Author), Elizabeth VanDiver (Author)Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied at school, where...

The View From Here - The Poetry Path 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Northport Arts Coalition (Author)Welcome to this, our second poetry/art collaboration! The poetry came first, and the artists then interpreted the poems. Here are the fruits of our labor, the poems, the art that was paired with them, and the joy of seeing them together in a place where all can enjoy them. We are in our second year, and just as thrilled. We have garnered attention across the country, across the world. We are so very thankful for our new donors a...

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The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets - Hardcover

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by John S. Garrison (Author)The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form of narrative. Drawing together insights from cognitive science, the ea...

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by Homer (Author), E. V. Rieu (Translator), Peter Jones (Revised by)Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization--the cornerstone of Western culture and an epic poem without rival in world literature. The story centers on...

The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine - Paperback

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by Kaveh Akbar (Author), Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by)An inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine, featuring poets from across the world, from antiquity to the present, compiled by renowned poet and author of Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar A Penguin Classic Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology is a holistic and global survey o...

A House Divided Cannot Stand: Lord, Help Us Love One Another as You Love - Hardcover

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by Barbara Ann Mary Mack (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 21, 2004

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works - Paperback

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by Gerard Manley Hopkins (Author), Catherine Phillips (Editor)This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, and this edition demonstrates the range of his interests. It includes all his poetry, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmoud M. Al-Shaer (Author), Olga Schubert (Editor), Anna-Sophie Springer (Editor) Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.39 x 7 x 4.25 IN Publication Date: August 13, 2025

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by Cathy Hailey (Author)I'd Rather Be a Hyacinth features ekphrastic poems inspired by an episodic performance of the Moscow Festival Ballet interwoven with poems of refuge from grief, the comfort and healing found in nature, memory, and family. The poems are an exploration of mimesis in Aristotle's sense, a re-representing of life-a witnessing and re-animation of the lives of all creatures in nature-the biosphere, the artistic life as performed on stage in the ballet, the spiritual life beyo...

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by Natasha Wing (Author), Amy Wummer (Illustrator)The newest title in Natasha Wing's bestselling Night Before series It's the night before New Year?s, and the whole family is determined to stay up until midnight Everyone's stocked up on sparkly streamers and festive party hats, but after a night filled with card games and too many cupcakes, the little ones are getting sleepy. . . Can they make it until the clock strikes twelve? Author BiographyNatasha Wing was born in Milford, Connecticut i...

The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Virgil (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all the way tormented...

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way - Paperback

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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)A rich, poetic, and socially relevant version of the great spiritual-philosophical classic of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching--from a legendary literary icon Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu's time-honored and as...

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by Victoria Chang (Author)After her mother's death, Chang wrote deep into grief by composing "obits"-from her mother's blue dress to language itself.Author BiographyBorn in Detroit, Michigan to Taiwanese immigrants, Victoria Chang was educated at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Stanford Business School and holds an MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She is the author of five books of poetry, including Circle; Salvinia Molesta; and The Boss, which...

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by Kari Flickinger (Author)In her stunning debut collection, Kari Flickinger maps the elemental displacement of trauma and heartbreak through a journey of triumphant reclamation of the self. These delicate, but complex poems interrogate and redefine the dimensions of love. This collection is for anyone who is ready to change the way they view themselves in their world, and to restore and fearlessly embrace their identity. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date:...