Leaves of Grass: (1855) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Walt Whitman
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and tit ...Show more
Christine Rossetti : Selected Poems by Christina Rossetti
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Category: Poetry
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. First published 2008.
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A phenomenonally precocious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief five-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsce ...Show more
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, ...Show more
Rumi: in the Arms of the Beloved by Jonathan Star
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Category: Poetry | Series: Cornerstone Editions
Landmark translations of the Sufi poet/mystic Rumi from the acclaimed interpreter of the "Tao Te Ching." Jonathan Star has assembled selections of Rumias verse in a treasury that spans the poetas life and includes his most celebrated and poignant work. It is an enchanting volume of classic Eastern thou ...Show more
Letters Lifted into Poetry: Selected Correspondence Between David Campbell and Douglas Stewart, 1946-1979 by Jonathan Persse
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Category: Poetry
Ranging over a period of four decades, the letters between these two major Australian poets talk of life, poetry, publishing (the "Bulletin", and Angus & Robertson), friends and professional acquaintances including Judith Wright, Norman Lindsay, R.D. Fitz Gerald, A.D. Hope, Rosemary Dobson and Franc ...Show more
Capacity by L K Holt
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Capacity is a volume with two chambers. The first, 'Modern Woman Sonnets', comprises twenty-six wild and precise love poems, which can be traced back to those of the Renaissance original Louise Labé. These sonnets are versions, hardly, or echoes, clearly, of Labé’s, and perpetuate the internal logic of ...Show more