The Erotic Poems by Ovid
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the "Amores", Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate a ...Show more
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems by Li Po and Tu Fu; Arthur Cooper (Trans.)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and pow ...Show more
Four Tragedies And Octavia by Seneca
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra p ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kem (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about real ...Show more
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake, edited by G. E. Bentley
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings depict a ...Show more
Emily Jane Bronte: The Complete Poems by Emily Bronte
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed to her. Many poems describe the mythic country of ...Show more
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
"I am large, I contain multitudes" When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his ...Show more
Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
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Category: Poetry
This title features an introduction by Carol Ann Duffy. Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. Th ...Show more
Fast: Poems by Jorie Graham
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Category: Poetry
The latest collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham"A fascinating mosaic that explores what it means to live and die at a time when technology is redefining our existence......moving...[an] important book." (The Washington Post)In her first new collection in five years-her most exhil ...Show more
Never - Poems by Jorie Graham
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Category: Poetry
Jorie Graham's collection of poems, Never, primarily addresses concern over our environment in crisis. One of the most challenging poets writing today, Graham is no easy read, but the rewards are well worth the effort. While thematically present, her concern is not exclusively the demise of natural reso ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look ins ...Show more
Cat Poems by Various
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Category: Poetry
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affec ...Show more