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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire's birth comes this stunning, landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. A shocking, controversial work in its own time and the most influential book of poetry of the nineteenth century-"the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language" (T.S. Eliot)-Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil is a gritty, often perverse, exploration of the underbelly of urban modernity. Acclaimed translator...
82) Poems
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems written by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry (Source: Wikipedia)
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variety--leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline making urgency of Claudia Rankine's Citizen to the stark pathos...
86) The poems
Author
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's superb narrative poems and sonnets give us the most direct connection we possess to the movements of reflection and emotion in our greatest writer. In themselves, they are essential to our legacy as thinking and feeling people; as products of Shakespeare's mind, they provide endlessly illuminating evidence about the person who occupies the center of our literary civilization. The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular...
87) Poems
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume-filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons-that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own,...
88) The poems
Author
Language
English
Description
Gathers Wordsworth's poems about nature, love, childhood, and parenthood.
90) Poems
Author
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. Long through thy weary crowds I roam; A river-ark on the ocean brine, Long I've been tossed like the driven foam: But now, proud world! I'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise grimace; To upstart Wealth's averted eye; To supple Office, low and high; To crowded halls, to court and street; To frozen hearts and hasting feet; To those...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes...
94) Questions: poems
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems that ask questions, by such authors as Aileen Fisher, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Eve Merriam, and Ogden Nash.
95) Winter poems
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.
96) Halloween poems
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen poems celebrate the holiday of pumpkins, black cats, witches, and ghosts.
97) Easter poems
Pub. Date
[1985]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems on Easter themes by John Ciardi, William Jay Smith, Joan Aiken, and other authors, including poems translated from Russian and German.
100) Valentine poems
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty poems which celebrate Valentine's Day.
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