Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam P/B by Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of wh ...Show more
Train Songs: Poetry of the Railway by Don Paterson
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Category: Poetry
"This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order...". (W.H. Auden). Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes ('On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway ...Show more
Akhenaten by Dorothy Porter
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Category: Poetry
Akhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history - archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign, but enough remains to tell a remarkable story of incest, heresy, androgyny and a massive cult of personality. Like Albert Camus' celebrated Caligula, Doro ...Show more
Lullabies by Lang Leav
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Category: Poetry | Series: Lang Leav
A sequel to the hugely popular, best-selling Love & Misadventure, Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss.Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece fr ...Show more
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters by Robert Pinsky
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Category: Poetry
?Magnificent ...poems to inspire [with] brief andbrilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.??Alan Cheuse, NPR
Henry Lawson Treasury by Henry Lawson; Oslo Davis (Illustrator)
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Category: Poetry
Henry Lawson is one of Australia's best-known writers and poets. His short stories such as 'The Drover's Wife' and 'The Loaded Dog' are colourful chronicles of the hardships, struggles and triumphs of Australian bush life at the turn of the nineteenth century. Known as 'The Poet of the People', Lawson c ...Show more
Devious Intimacy by Ann Vickery
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Category: Poetry
Devious Intimacy combines a sly, playful wit with a melancholic tenderness to navigate the complex terrain of difficult feelings. Vickery's poems move effortlessly between the private world of love and sexuality to wider forms of connection, teasing out how past histories and literature underscore conte ...Show more
When You are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales by William Butler Yeats
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Category: Poetry
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of 26 collectible and hardcover editions, each cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet for each author's surname. The unique cover art is created in a design collaboration between Penguin Art Director ...Show more
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by e e cummings
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Category: Poetry
This edition of E. E. Cummings's Complete Poems contains all the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including 36 poems that were first collected in the 1991 edition and 164 unpublished poems issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera. Combining Thoreau's controlled b ...Show more
e.e cummings: Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
"Among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets," according to Jenny Penberthy in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, E. E. Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A Cummings poem is spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically place ...Show more
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology by Tim Kendall
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of wa ...Show more