Selected Poems

Selected Poems - Parker, Pat

A selection of the most loved poems from African-American, lesbian-feminist poet Pat Parker-renowned for her invaluable contributions to social justice.

Selected Poems - rev R.S. Thomas

Selected Poems - rev R.S. Thomas RS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century, but the 270 poems he chose for this definitive selection reveal a wide range of themes and concerns. He was a passionate Welsh patriot, but also an...

100 Selected Poems, W. B. Yeats: Collectable Hardbound Edition

New and Selected Poems, Volume One - Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as...

The Raven and Other Selected Poems

This selection of Edgar Allan Poe´s poetical works includes some of his best-known pieces, including the triumphant, gleeful ´The Bells´, the tragic ode ´Annabel Lee´ and his famous gothic tour de force, ´The Raven´. Some present powerful, nightmarish images of the...

Selected Poems - Paul Celan

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 of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"—the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes...

New Selected Poems 1988-2013 - Seamus Heaney

New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career.Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus...

Yehuda Amichai Selected Poems (Yehuda Amichai)(Brožovaná)

Yehuda Amichai was first brought to attention in this country by his inclusion in Modern Poetry in Translation (1965). The magazine's editors, Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes, here provide a selection of Amichai's poetry translated by various hands, placing his...

Selected Poems - Yeats W. B.

Features a selection of the works of W B Yeats, which includes the narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin. This title also includes poems in alternative versions; and in many other cases it provides s

Selected Poems - T.S. Eliot

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.

Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961 - 1991

Shot through with his trademark humour, ‘Trying Conclusions’ is the fourteenth collection of poems from the lauded writer. Containing twenty-three poems, the topics vary wildly, from short verses on waiting rooms and fast cars to longer musings on his family, war, and...

Selected Poems: Pablo Neruda (Pablo Neruda, Neruda, Ben Belitt)(Brožovaná)

The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into...

Selected Poems (A.R. Ammons)(Brožovaná)

A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him."

Mihai Eminescu - The Legend of the Evening Star & Selected Poems (Adrian George Sahlean)(Brožovaná)

Poems and prose by Romanian 'national poet' Mihai Eminescu (1850 -1889), considered Europe's last great Romantic poet and celebrated by UNESCO as Year-2000-Poet-of-the-Year. Translator Adrian G. Sahlean is viewed as the poet's premier voice in English, and his...

The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems (Charles Simic)(Brožovaná)

Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the...

Selected Poems of Oksana Zabuzhko (Oksana Zabuzhko)(Brožovaná)

Clytemnestra plotting her husband's murder, Ophelia criticizing her creator, and a report from Chernobyl all offer the poet occasions for reflections marked by a sophisticated wit and a philosophical probing reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska or Adam Zagajewski. By...

Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers died in 1962 at the age of seventy-five, ending one of the most controversial poetic careers of this century. The son of a theology professor at Western Seminary in Pittsburgh, Jeffers was taught Greek, Latin, and Hebrew as a boy, and spent three years...

Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rosetti's inner life dominates her poetry,...

Selected Poems: Rossetti (Christina G. Rossetti)(Brožovaná)

This new selection of Rossetti's poems brings together works by one of the most significant nineteenth-century English poets. It includes an illuminating introduction, a chronology of Rossetti's life and works, and explanatory notes.

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Langston Hughes)(Brožovaná)

With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the...

Selected Poems - Thomas Hardy

Selected Poems - Thomas Hardy Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two hundred poems includes such familiar pieces as "During...

Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Edna St. Vincent Millay This beautifully produced first annotated edition of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s oeuvre re-presents the work of the Jazz Age’s most famous poet z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English...

Selected Poems - Robert Frost

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Selected Poems | Francis Ponge - Ponge, Francis

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (Lucille Clifton)(Brožovaná)

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected.These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience...

Selected Poems (Emily Dickinson)(Brožovaná)

Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. No comparable edition at this price. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Selected Poems (Yeats W. B.)(Brožovaná)

Selection including 12 poems presented as considerably revised versions, with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb.

Selected Poems - William Wordsworth

A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionized poetry. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold...

Selected Poems of Derek Walcott - Walcott, Derek

This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections.