The New Faber Book of Love Poems by Edited by James Fenton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, "The New Faber Book of Love Poems" contains a fantastic mix of classics and popular favourites, as wel ...Show more
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry by Ernest Fenollosa
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Category: Poetry
This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George Kennedy of Yale, who called it "a small mass of confusio ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Death by D.J. Enright (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Books of Prose and Verse Ser.
The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices o ...Show more
THE REPUBLIC OF POETRY by MARTIN ESPADA
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Category: Poetry
The eighth collection by the Pablo Neruda of NorthAmerican authors (Sandra Cisneros) was a finalist for the 2007Pulitzer Prize. In his eighth collection of poems, Martín Espadacelebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic ofPoetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory andhidden histor ...Show more
Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom
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Category: Poetry
A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an eleg ...Show more
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Harold Bloom
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Category: Poetry
Almost all other poetry anthologies have been edited and annotated by a committee of scholars. This is entirely Bloom's selection with his own inimitable commentary. This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book ...Show more
Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals by Merlinda Bobis
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Category: Poetry
I, to, can love you in my dialect, you know, punctuated with cicadas and their eternal afternoons - To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls once burst the moon/ with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain-- To do all these in peac ...Show more
William Blake : selected poems by William Blake (selected by Peter Butter)
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Category: Poetry
The best of William Blake's poems in a beautiful gift edition William Blake (1757-1827) was born in London, the son of a Dissenter. He learned drawing and engraving, and later became a painter. he married in 1782, published his first poems on 1783, and despite poverty, wrote and illustrated his own wo ...Show more