Selected Poems

Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien

Poetry. THE SELECTED POEMS OF TAO CHIN brings into English some of the most important poetry in all of Chinese literature. As David Hinton writes in his introduction, Tao Chien "stands at the head of the great Chinese tradition like a revered grandfather: profoundly...

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

This enthralling collection contains more than 400 poems that were published between 1886 (the year of Emily Dickinson's death) and 1900 which express her concepts of life and death, of love and nature.

Selected Poems of Herman Melville

A comprehensive collection of the poetry of a presiding genius of American literature While best known for such novels as his monumental "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville's poetry ever...

Selected Poems

'Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition.' Manuel Duran Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not...

Selected Poems

Treasury of 37 well-known and representative poems by great Romantic poet includes "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark," "Adonais," "Ozymandias," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," many more. Lists of titles and first lines.

Brontes: Selected Poems (CHARLOTTE BRONTE EMI)(Brožovaná)

The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones. Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected...

Selected Poems - Kavanagh Patrick

Selected Poems - Kavanagh Patrick Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as ''Tinker''s Wife'' and ''Inniskeen Road: July Evening'' to his tragic masterpiece ''The Great Hunger'' (1942) and his...

The Selected Poems of William Blake - William Blake

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Selected Poems 1923-1958 (E E Cummings)(Brožovaná)

This selection, made by Cummings himself in 1960, offers a comprehensive introduction to his most characteristic work — whether love poems, satirical squibs or nature poetry — and represents the range of his experiments with lyric form, syntax and typography, which...

Selected Poems: 1947-1995

Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, `summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat...

A Kiss for the Absolute – Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi (Shuzo Takiguchi,Mary Jo Bang,Yuki Tanaka)(Brožovaná)

The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English

Selected Poems (John Ashbery)(Brožovaná)

Selections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award The late John Ashbery was a poet whose "teasing, delicate, soulful

Selected Poems (Marina Tsvetaeva)(Brožovaná)

An acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poet An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva was a witness to the political turmoil and the social devastation wrought by the Russian Revol

Selected Poems (Paul Verlaine)(Brožovaná)

'Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language

Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard-minded ...They are works of great...

Selected Poems

One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. In his verse he sought to express...

Selected Poems

The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning.

Selected Poems: Eluard

The poetry of Eluard is that of the real world and its natural sensations and feelings. The main themes that stand out are love, brotherhood and kindness. His imagery is characterized by its appeal to the senses and the importance of concrete objects and of everyday...

Devotions : The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Chosen as one of Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club! Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout...

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

This collection includes more than 400 enthralling poems published between Emily Dickinson's death and 1900. With a new introduction (TK) and a critical afterword by Conrad Aiken, the poet largely responsible for establishing Dickinson's reputation.

Selected Early Poems

United States poet laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner, Charles Simic adds a new introduction to the most comprehensive collection of his early poetry from 1963-1983.

New and Selected Poems

“It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.” -Los Angeles TimesFor over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and...

Selected Poems | Francis Ponge (Francis Ponge,Germaine Bree,Margaret Guiton)(Brožovaná)

Through translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier poetry --Le parti pris des choses, Pi ces, Pro mes, and Nouveau nouveau recueil--as representative of the stro

Selected Poems

Sixty years of poems from a National Book Award winner and pioneering writer, activist, and intellectual.

Selected Poems - Sharon Olds

Selected Poems - Sharon Olds Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds''s poetry ''pure fire in the hands'' and cheered the ''roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss''. This rich...

Selected Poems of Robert Frost: Illustrated Edition

Featuring the full contents of Robert Frosts first three volumes of poetry - A Boys Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval - this superbly designed collection is a testament to the beauty of the poets writing. It gathers more than 100 of Frosts most renowned...

Ash Keys New Selected Poems - Michael Longley

Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast''A master in an old, great tradition'' THE TIMES''A keeper of the artistic estate, a...

Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien (Tao Chien,Qian Tao,Ch'ien T'Ao)(Brožovaná)

Poetry. THE SELECTED POEMS OF TAO CHIN brings into English some of the most important poetry in all of Chinese literature. As David Hinton writes in his introduction, Tao Chien "stands at the head of the great Chinese tradition like a revered grandfather: profoundly...

AL-SHUSHTARI The Great Sufi Poet of Andalusia SELECTED POEMS: Selected Poems (Paul Smith,Al-Shushtari)(Brožovaná)

AL-SHUSHTARI The Great Sufi Poet of Andalusia SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari (1312-1369) was a Sufi poet who was born in Guadix, northwest of Granada, Spain. As a young man he travelled to Tunisia, Algeria