Author: Jenni Calder
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780223404
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.
Stevenson: Everyman's Poetry
Author: Jenni Calder
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780223404
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780223404
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.
Christmas Poems
Author: John Hollander
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375407898
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A beautiful hardcover stocking-stuffer collecting the best-loved poems to celebrate the Christmas season, ranging from traditional religious poems to works by Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker, and Philip Larkin. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as: • “The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman” by Emily Dickinson • “Christmas is Coming” by Anthony Hecht • “Christmas in India” by Rudyard Kipling • “Shepherd’s Song at Christmas” by Langston Hughes • “The Christmas Robin” by Robert Graves • “Office Party” by Phyllis McGinley • “The Maid-Servant at the Inn” by Dorothy Parker • “New Year Poem” by Philip Larkin Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375407898
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A beautiful hardcover stocking-stuffer collecting the best-loved poems to celebrate the Christmas season, ranging from traditional religious poems to works by Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker, and Philip Larkin. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as: • “The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman” by Emily Dickinson • “Christmas is Coming” by Anthony Hecht • “Christmas in India” by Rudyard Kipling • “Shepherd’s Song at Christmas” by Langston Hughes • “The Christmas Robin” by Robert Graves • “Office Party” by Phyllis McGinley • “The Maid-Servant at the Inn” by Dorothy Parker • “New Year Poem” by Philip Larkin Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Garden Poems
Author: John Hollander
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0679447261
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them succeeds in "annihilating all that's made," as Andrew Marvell puts it in one of the most famous of all English poems, "to a green thought in a green shade." Contents include poems on Paradises, Gardens of Love, Gardens in the Mind, Gardens and Seasons, Flowers, Gardeners, The Work of the Garden, Gardens of the Wild, City Gardens, Public Gardens, Ruined Gardens, and A Garden of Gardens. Contributors include John Milton, Ovid, E.E. Cummings, Thom Gunn, John Donne, James Merrill, Wallace Stevens, Robert Browning, Shakespeare, and many others.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0679447261
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them succeeds in "annihilating all that's made," as Andrew Marvell puts it in one of the most famous of all English poems, "to a green thought in a green shade." Contents include poems on Paradises, Gardens of Love, Gardens in the Mind, Gardens and Seasons, Flowers, Gardeners, The Work of the Garden, Gardens of the Wild, City Gardens, Public Gardens, Ruined Gardens, and A Garden of Gardens. Contributors include John Milton, Ovid, E.E. Cummings, Thom Gunn, John Donne, James Merrill, Wallace Stevens, Robert Browning, Shakespeare, and many others.
Essays and Poems
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Everymans Library
ISBN: 9780460872249
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Babysnatching is one thing but Babyswapping? Inspector Wexford had not previously encountered the phenomenon of one ginger haired baby in its pram being swapped for another of the opposite sex. But novelty was only one aspect of a crime which came eventually to reveal a far more sinister range of characteristics.Darkly imagined and beautifully observed,Ruth Rendells stories reveal her startling insights into the criminal mind.
Publisher: Everymans Library
ISBN: 9780460872249
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Babysnatching is one thing but Babyswapping? Inspector Wexford had not previously encountered the phenomenon of one ginger haired baby in its pram being swapped for another of the opposite sex. But novelty was only one aspect of a crime which came eventually to reveal a far more sinister range of characteristics.Darkly imagined and beautifully observed,Ruth Rendells stories reveal her startling insights into the criminal mind.
Eliot: Poems
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712755
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The Little Review, and Art and Letters. Contents: Gerontion; Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar; Sweeney Erect; A Cooking Egg; Le Directeur; Melange adultere de tout; Lune de Miel; The Hippopotamus; Dans le Restaurant; Whispers of Immortality; Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service; Sweeney Among the Nightingales; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Windy Night; Morning at the Window; The Boston Evening Transcript; Aunt Helen; Cousin Nancy; Mr. Apollinax; Hysteria; Conversation Galante; La Figlia Che Pianga.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712755
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The Little Review, and Art and Letters. Contents: Gerontion; Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar; Sweeney Erect; A Cooking Egg; Le Directeur; Melange adultere de tout; Lune de Miel; The Hippopotamus; Dans le Restaurant; Whispers of Immortality; Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service; Sweeney Among the Nightingales; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Windy Night; Morning at the Window; The Boston Evening Transcript; Aunt Helen; Cousin Nancy; Mr. Apollinax; Hysteria; Conversation Galante; La Figlia Che Pianga.
Rimbaud: Poems
Author: Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rimbaud contains selections from Rimbaud's work, including over 100 poems, selected prose, "Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871," and an index of first lines.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rimbaud contains selections from Rimbaud's work, including over 100 poems, selected prose, "Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871," and an index of first lines.
Wallace Stevens
Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945753
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological questions alone but are also "words chosen out of desire."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945753
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological questions alone but are also "words chosen out of desire."
Poetry Please!
Author:
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rudyard Kipling: Everyman Poetry
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780223323
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Includes the ever popular "If", along with the best of Kipling's powerful, fluent poetry.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780223323
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Includes the ever popular "If", along with the best of Kipling's powerful, fluent poetry.
The Minor Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description