Author: J. D. McClatchy
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: poets, twentieth, century, painting, art, painters, essays
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1989-12-21
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520069714
ISBN-13: 9780520069718
Authors:Various, Harvey Shapiro,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: poets, project, american, war, world
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2003-01-27
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1931082332
ISBN-13: 9781931082334
Acclaimed poet and World War II veteran Harvey Shapiro’s pathbreaking gathering of work by more than sixty poets of the war years includes Randall Jarrell, Anthony Hecht, George Oppen, Richard Eberhart, William Bronk, and Woody Guthrie.
Author: Michael Schmidt
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: poets, greek, ancient, lives, first
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-03-14
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0375725253
ISBN-13: 9780375725258
A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life for the general reader the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. Starting with the legendary and possibly mythical Orpheus and with Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our literary forebears. From Hipponax, “the dirty old man of poetry,” to Theocritus, the father of pastoral; from Sappho, who threw herself from a cliff for love, to Hesiod, who claimed a visit from the Mus
Author: Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Keywords: poets, pocket, library, everyman, beat
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2002-07-09
List price: $13.50
ISBN-10: 0375413324
ISBN-13: 9780375413322
An impassioned audacity distinguishes the thirty writers represented in the rousing anthology of poetry from the great 20th-century countercultural literary movement. In combining art with an unapologetic antiestablishment zeal, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range, fomenting an artistic revolution.The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features statements on Beat poetics, selections from the alternately ardent, incendiary, and earnest correspondence of Beat Generation writers, and
Author: Peter Washington
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Keywords: poets, pocket, library, everyman, russian
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-05-12
List price: $13.50
ISBN-10: 0307269744
ISBN-13: 9780307269744
Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here is the work of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ivan Bunin, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and Joseph Brodsky, among many others.Arranged by theme—love, mortality, art, and the enduring myst
Authors:W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson,
Publisher: Penguin
Keywords: poets, blake, poe, romantic, vol, english, language
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1977-06-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0140150528
ISBN-13: 9780140150520
DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: A MASTERFUL SELECTION OF WORKS FROM ONE OF THE RICHEST OF ALL LITERARY PERIODS. WILLIAM BLAKE, ROBERT BURNS,SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, LORD BYRON, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, JOHN KEATS, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, EDGAR ALLAN POE. AND MANY OTHERS. "I FIND IT HARD TO USE ANYTHING BUT SUPERLATIVES ON THE AUDEN-PEARSONCOLLECTION OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN VERSE. IT IS THE BEST (AND I KNOW IT IS THE BEST) COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF ITS KIND IN EXISTENCE." - HORACE GREGORY.
Author: J. D. McClatchy
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: poets, project, american, war, civil
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2005-04-07
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1931082766
ISBN-13: 9781931082761
