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The Apple That Astonished Parisby Billy CollinsISBN 1557288232 (1-55728-823-2)
Softcover, Univ of Arkansas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apple That Astonished Paris'Book summary:From the original press release for the book's publication:
Imagine Smokey the Bear walking through the forest carrying a red gasoline can and a box of kitchen matches, or Frankenstein absent-mindedly tapping the bolts on his neck as he composes an elegy. You have just imagined the world of Billy Collins.
Entrance can be gained to this world in THE APPLE THAT ASTONISHED PARIS, a collection of poems by Billy Collins published in June 1988 by the University of Arkansas Press.
Collins' irreverent images, such as Death stopping the car to get his scythe out of the trunk, strike at the deepest concerns of the human heart and mind in ways as delightful as they are provocative. [via]
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The Art of Drowningby Billy CollinsISBN 0822955679 (0-8229-5567-9)
Softcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Drowning'Book summary:Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Gerald Stern describes his poetry as "heartbreakingly beautiful." John Updike proclaims his poems "consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides." The Art of Drowning-one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s-is distinctive in its variety of interests and the generous hospitality of its voice. Ranging from an analysis of Keats's handwriting to the art form of the calendar pinup, the subjects of his poems inspire imaginative play. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing." Billy Collins, named U.S. Poet Laureate in June 2001 and reappointed to the post in 2002, has published seven collections of poetry, including The Apple That Astonished Paris; Nine Horses; Picnic, Lightning; Questions About Angels; and Sailing Alone Around the Room. A professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, he lives in Somers, New York. [via]
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Autobiography of Redby Anne CarsonISBN 037570129X (0-375-70129-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of Red'Book summary:Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a novel in verse, the author's first. A classicist by profession as well as a poet, Carson has drawn on antiquity for her cast, updating the myth of Geryon and Herakles. In the original version, of course, Herakles killed the red-skinned, winged Geryon. In Carson's very contemporary retelling, he merely inspires, but does not return, the monster's passion. By choosing Geryon as her central character, Carson can bring up the questions of existence as if they hadn't been asked before. After all, the monster's instincts have not been numbed by civilization. Fires twist through him. We feel the pain of learning the most elementary things, and then the volcanic intensity that comes with that more advanced thing, love. Yet Carson doesn't so much tell the story of Geryon's love as mediate his very being through semiological surfaces: cafes, video stores, lipstick, a library where he shelves government documents with a "forlorn austerity, / tall and hushed in their ranges as veterans of a forgotten war." Carson seldom satisfies herself with an image of the world. Instead she atomizes the world, leaving it broken down, refracted, and glinting. At times her verbal pyrotechnics manage to render pure energy:
A little button at the end of each range activated the fluorescent track above it.
No novelist could have gotten away with that last line. Yet it's very much to the point: Carson's Geryon is, among other things, a camera freak who doesn't understand that an observer must inevitably alter the nature of the thing observed. Here is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, cheek-by-jowl with the ancients! And indeed, Carson's achievement is to interweave the archaic and the modern so seamlessly that by the time we finish reading Autobiography of Red, the entire landscape looks inside out. --Mark Rudman [via]
A yellowing 5 x 7 index card
Scotch-taped below each button said EXTINGUISH LIGHT WHEN NOT IN USE.
Geryon went flickering
through the ranges like a bit of mercury flipping the switches on and off.
The librarians thought him
a talented boy with a shadow side.
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Captain's Versesby Pablo NerudaISBN 081120457X (0-8112-0457-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain's Verses'Book summary:A classic poetry book in a masterful bilingual edition Long before he received the 1971 Nobel Prize, Pablo Neruda had attained worldwide recognition as one of the most important figures in contemporary poetry. A fiery poet of leftist politics, he was also a fiery poet of love. This translation of "The Captain's Verses" is a major achievement in the genre of love poetry. Neruda originally published the book anonymously, some years before he married Matilde Urrutia, to whom he had addressed these poems of passionate devotion as well as love's quarrel's. The first "acknowledged" edition appeared in 1963. In this collection, the Chilean poet's brilliant images are expressed with remarkable directness and simplicity. Donald D. Walsh's translations are presented with the original Spanish verse en face. [via]
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The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitanby Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish WalshISBN 0811215806 (0-8112-1580-6)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan'Book summary:New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual.
The Captain's Verses was first published anonymously in 1952, some years before Neruda married Matilde Urrutia - the one with "the fire / of an unchained meteor" - to whom he had addressed these poems of love, ecstasy, devotion, and fury. Our bilingual edition is seen by many as the most intimate and passionate volume of Neruda's love poetry, capturing all the erotic energy of a new love. [via]
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Collected Poemsby Edna st Vincent MillayISBN 0060908890 (0-06-090889-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethkeby Theodore RoethkeISBN 0385086016 (0-385-08601-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679600078 (0-679-60007-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--"The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays. [via]
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Complete Poemsby E. E. CummingsISBN 0261620355 (0-261-62035-5)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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Complete Poems and Selected Essaysby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard GrayISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Selected Essays'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times. [via]
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0394716787 (0-394-71678-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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The Dream Songsby John BerrymanISBN 0374516707 (0-374-51670-7)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream Songs'Book summary:This edition combines 77 Dream Songs, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969. It contains 385 songs, an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.[via]
In his essay on the work, Denis Donoghue says: "John Berryman has now completed the long poem, The Dream Songs, begun in 1955 . . . The poet resolved it [the problem of a long poem] in his own way; not Eliot's way in Four Quartets, Williams's way in Paterson, Pound's way in the Cantos, or Hart Crane's way in The Bridge . . . Mr. Berryman's answer was to conceive a diary, a dream diary."
"A major achievement," writes A. Alvarez in The Observer. "He has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself."
Of the hero of The Dream Songs, James Schevill has written: "The character of Henry is a permanent addition to American literature."More editions of The Dream Songs:
The Dream Songsby W.S. Merwin, John BerrymanISBN 0374530661 (0-374-53066-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0785814531 (0-7858-1453-1)
Hardcover, Book Sales
Find This BookBook summary:The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg.[via]
Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernatural realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century.
In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In a Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are here also, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives.More editions of Edgar Allan Poe:
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Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allen PoeISBN 0785813500 (0-7858-1350-0)
Softcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edgar Allen Poe'Book summary:This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and Murders in the Rue Morgue. [via]
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Edmund Spenser's Poetryby Edmund Spenser, Hugh MacLean, Anne Lake PrescottISBN 0393962997 (0-393-96299-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Spenser's Poetry'Book summary:Building on the strengths of two previous editions, this revised and enlarged Third Edition continues to offer more of Spenser's poetry than any other comparable volume. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed and precisely annotated, with an Editor's Note following each section.
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by six eclogues, including the much-discussed "Februarie." Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, increasingly a focus of critical attention, is an important addition, and Amoretti is offered in its entirety.
Seventeen critical essays, judiciously chosen from the many published since 1982, have been added to supplement eleven earlier commentaries. New to the Third Edition are the perspectives of Spenser's contemporary William Camden, Virginia Woolf, William Nelson, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Donald Cheney, Judith Anderson, Richard Helgerson, Louis Adrian Montrose, and David Lee Miller. The critical essays on the House of Busyrane, Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos, and Amoretti are grouped to "speak" to each other in ways sure to stimulate classroom discussion. This class-tested feature is back by popular demand along with essays by D. C. Allen, Robert A. Brinkley, Ronald P. Bond, Anne Lake Prescott, Andrew D. Weiner, Susanne Lindgren Wofford, Harry Berger, Jr., and Paul Alpers.
A Chronology of Spenser's life and an extensive Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Edmund Spenser's Poetry:
- Edmund Spenser's Poetry: ISBN 039309569X (0-393-09569-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Edmund Spenser's Poetry: ISBN 0393951383 (0-393-95138-3)
Softcover, Norton - Edmund Spenser's Poetry: ISBN 0393013847 (0-393-01384-7)
Hardcover, Norton - Edmund Spenser's Poetry: ISBN 0393962997 (0-393-96299-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Edmund Spenser's Poetry: ISBN 039309569X (0-393-09569-X)
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The English Poems of John Miltonby John MiltonISBN 1853264105 (1-85326-410-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Poems of John Milton'Book summary:John Milton (1608-74) has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English poet after Skakespeare. His early poems, collected and published in 1645, include the much loved pair L'Allegro and Il Penseroso ('the cheerful man and the thoughtful man'), Lycidas (his great elegy on a fellow poet) and Comus (the one masque which is still read today).
When the Civil War began Milton abandoned poetry for politics and wrote a series of pamphlets in defence of the Parliamentary party, then in defence of the execution of Charles I: these include his great defence of the freedom of the press, Areopagitica.
In the course of this work he lost his sight, and was blind for the last twenty years of his life. During this time he wrote his two great epics, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, and his retelling of the story of Samson as a Greek tragedy.
This edition contains all his poems in English, with introduction and notes by Laurence Lerner (formerly Professor of English, University of Sussex) [via]More editions of The English Poems of John Milton:
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The Golden Gateby Vikram SethISBN 0679734570 (0-679-73457-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Gate'Book summary:Can 690 sonnets, rhyming a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-f-f-e-g-g, be a novel? Definitely! First published in 1986 and still fresh (the sole sign of its publication date being the frequent use of the word yuppie), Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate will turn the verse-fearing into admiring acolytes. Janet Hayakawa, a yet-to-be-discovered sculptor and drummer in the Liquid Sheep, secretly places a personal ad for her friend John, even though she too is single. "Only her cats provide distraction,/Twin paradigms of lazy action." The seventh letter does the trick. Lawyer Liz Donati's submission is two sonnets in toto and disarms John into meeting her. Soon they fall into brief bliss, as do her brother, Ed, and John's old college roommate, Phil. Unfortunately, the first couple's love is too soon destroyed, partly by a pet, partly by politics; and the second is rent by religion. Ed pulls away thanks to the Bible: "I have to trust my faith's decisions, / Not batten on my own volitions."
The rest of the novel leads less to the traditional comic ending--rapprochement and marriage all around--than to surprising sadness. But in between there is wit, wordplay, abounding allusion, and some marvelous animals, among them the iguana Schwarzenegger. The author even steps onto the stage on occasion: at a frou-frou publishing party a powerful editor accosts him, curious to hear about his new novel. When Seth tells him it's in verse, the temperature plummets. "'How marvelously quaint,' he said, / And subsequently cut me dead." Luckily, Seth's real editor did anything but. [via]
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- The Golden Gate: ISBN 0394750632 (0-394-75063-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books - The Golden Gate: ISBN 0394549740 (0-394-54974-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Golden Gate: ISBN 0571139671 (0-571-13967-1)
Hardcover, Faber - The Golden Gate: ISBN 0679734570 (0-679-73457-0)
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John Keatsby John KeatsISBN 0140424474 (0-14-042447-4)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should be among the English poets after my death. This wide-ranging selection of Keatss poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem Imitation of Spenser; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, Ode to a Nightingale and Hyperion - and later celebrated works such as La Belle Dame sans Merci. Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be lesser work, but which illustrate his more earthy, playful side and superb ear for everyday language.
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John Keats: Selected Poemsby John KeatsISBN 0312097530 (0-312-09753-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Keats: Selected Poems'Book summary:Favorite selections from the canon of the great Romantic poet include ""Ode on a Grecian Urn,"" ""Ode to a Nightingale,"" and ""La Belle Dame Sans Merci."" [via]
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John Keats : Selected Poemsby John Barnard, John KeatsISBN 0140437258 (0-14-043725-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Keats : Selected Poems'Book summary:John Keats survives today as the archetypal Romantic genius who died tragically early. The rapid development of Keats's poetic skills is powerfully displayed in this selection, which includes his first major poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", as well as "Endymion", "The Eve of St. Agnes", "La Belle Dame sans Merci", and "The Fall of Hyperion". Throughout, Keats's preoccupying themes of love, art, sorrow, the natural world, and the nature of the imagination magnificently emerge. In his superb Introduction, John Barnard discusses the focus of the anthology, which emphasizes Keats's place as a "second-generation Romantic". [via]
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John Miltonby Gordon J. M. CampbellISBN 0460878131 (0-460-87813-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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Los Versos Del Capitanby Pablo NerudaISBN 9871138210 (987-1138-21-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Milton: Poemsby John MiltonISBN 0679450998 (0-679-45099-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Miltonby Laurence D. LernerISBN 0140585052 (0-14-058505-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Milton'Book summary:Fired by moral convictions and shaped by classical forms, Milton's achievements have never ceased to influence succeeding generations of writers and readers. Laurence Lerner's selection forms an introduction to his work, and includes much of "Paradise Lost" and the entirety of "Samson Agonistes". [via]
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Patersonby William Carlos WilliamsISBN 081121298X (0-8112-1298-X)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paterson'Book summary:William Carlos Williams (Rutherford, New Jersey, 1883-1963), a pesar de ser ginecólogo y pediatra con numerosa clientela, fue un poeta de vocación infatigable, sin dejar nunca de participar en tertulias literarias en el ambiente artístico del Greenwich Village durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Mantuvo también estrecha relación con los artistas expatriados de la llamada Generación Perdida y con escritores franceses como Valéry Larbaud y Philippe Soupault. Escribió también novela, teatro y ensayo, y tras retirarse como medico se dedicó por entero a la literatura, dando conferencias y recitales en escuelas y universidades. Williams pertenece a una generación de ilustres poetas que intentan encontrar vías alternativas a la tradición poética inglesa, todavía vigente a principios del siglo XX, y que convirtieron la poesía norteamericana de ese siglo en una época dorada.(*CR*)Paterson es un poema-libro dividido en cinco partes, con una estructura orgánica. Es la obra fundamental de Williams y en la que estuvo trabajando durante casi veinte años. Esta edición incluye también los fragmentos de lo que habría de ser el libro VI. El poema es una obra con pretensión de escritura total: dar razón de una tierra, de la historia de un pueblo y de las vicisitudes de algunos personajes concretos, de manera que a través de la historia de una ciudad se intentan rastrear las huellas de toda la historia americana. El lenguaje está integrado en el experimento narrativo, y Williams lo fuerza, lo distorsiona y lo pone al servicio de los acontecimientos. [via]
The Poems of John Miltonby John Milton, John Carey, Alastair FowlerISBN 0393043606 (0-393-04360-6)
Hardcover, Longman
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Poetical Worksby Edmund SpenserISBN 0192810707 (0-19-281070-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Poetical Works of John Miltonby John MiltonISBN 1404325468 (1-4043-2546-8)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, With Notes of Various Authorsby John MiltonISBN 0404043704 (0-404-04370-4)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetryby Ted Hughes, Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571225837 (0-571-22583-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry'Book summary:The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets.[via]
Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order allows the contents [of this book] to discover themselves as we ourselves gradually discovered them--each poem full of its singular appeal, transmitting its own signals, taking its chances in a big, voluble world."
With undisputed masterpieces and rare discoveries, with both classics and surprises galore, The Rattle Bag includes the work of such key poets as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath among its hundreds of poems. A helpful Glossary as well as an Index of Poets and Works are offered at the conclusion of this hefty, unorthodox, diverse, inspired, and inspiring collection of poetry.More editions of Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry:
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The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetryby Seamus Heaney, Ted HughesISBN 057111976X (0-571-11976-X)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry'Book summary:The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets.[via]
Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order allows the contents [of this book] to discover themselves as we ourselves gradually discovered them--each poem full of its singular appeal, transmitting its own signals, taking its chances in a big, voluble world."
With undisputed masterpieces and rare discoveries, with both classics and surprises galore, The Rattle Bag includes the work of such key poets as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath among its hundreds of poems. A helpful Glossary as well as an Index of Poets and Works are offered at the conclusion of this hefty, unorthodox, diverse, inspired, and inspiring collection of poetry.More editions of The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry:
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Sapphoby Mary BarnardISBN 0520223128 (0-520-22312-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sappho'Book summary:These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.[via] 
Sapphoby Robert ChandlerISBN 046087943X (0-460-87943-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Selected Poemsby John KeatsISBN 0882950509 (0-88295-050-9)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:A collection of the most well known and not so well known poems by the great poet himself. [via]
Selected Poems of John Keatsby John Keats, Charles MozleyISBN 053101083X (0-531-01083-X)
Hardcover, F. Watts
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Selected Poetryby John KeatsISBN 0192834932 (0-19-283493-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Selected Poetry: ISBN 0451520351 (0-451-52035-1)
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Selected Poetry of Keatsby KeatsISBN 0452009561 (0-452-00956-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Shropshire Ladby A. E. HousmanISBN 1419103318 (1-4191-0331-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Shropshire Lad'Book summary:"The enduring appeal of A. E. Housman's lyrical English poem, A Shropshire Lad, first published in 1896, lies perhaps in its gentle accessibility and in its universal theme of loss, of love and the passage of time. Certainly its popularity today appears undiminished as it continues to console and delight. The timeless quality of the Shropshire countryside, from the bucolic Clun valley to the bleak hills of Caer Caradoc, is captured by one of Shropshire's finest wildlife and landscape photographers, Gareth Thomas. Christopher Ricks, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and President of the Housman Society, has written a thought-provoking introduction to this edition, touching on some of the reasons for the poem's lasting popularity, including its unusual combination of classical fortitude and romantic yearning. The biographical sketch of Housman by Ludlow historian David Lloyd sets the poem in context. " [via]
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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Timesby Neil AstleyISBN 1401359264 (1-4013-5926-4)
Softcover, Miramax
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times'Book summary:Assembling a diverse mix of contemporary poets-Mary Oliver, W.H. Auden, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rita Dove, and hundreds more-Staying Alive is a unique anthology that illuminates the vital force of our humanity, the passion of our aspirations, the power of our spirituality. From the enigma of death to the sweetness of friendship, these poems speak to life's mysteries and consolations and help us navigate the most trying times in recent memory. Staying Alive is already an astonishing best-seller in the United Kingdom, where it has gained a wide-ranging audience. This new edition, specially revised for its American readership, reconnects acionados and newcomers alike to the force of poetry, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. [via]
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The Top 500 Poemsby William HarmonISBN 023108028X (0-231-08028-X)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Top 500 Poems'Book summary:The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces, John Donne's complex originality, and Alexander Pope's mordant satires. The anthology also features perennial favorites such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; Emily Dickinson's prisms of profundity; the ironies of Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot; and the passion of Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. These 500 poems are verses that readers either know already or will want to know, encapsulating the visceral power of truly great literature. William Harmon provides illuminating commentary to each work and a rich introduction that ties the entire collection together.
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Troilus And Cressidaby Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip KrappISBN 0486446581 (0-486-44658-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus And Cressida'Book summary:Remarkable for his beauty and bravery, the warrior Troilus is an engaging youth who lives, and eventually dies, for Cressida, a virtuous, tender-hearted woman driven to infidelity by circumstance. Regarded by many as Chaucer's most noble work of art, Troilus and Cressida is an outstanding choice for readers of mythology and medieval poetry.[via]More editions of Troilus And Cressida:
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Troilus and Cressida in Modern English Verseby Geoffrey Chaucer, George P. KrappISBN 0394701429 (0-394-70142-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Troilus and Criseydeby Geoffrey Chaucer, B. A. WindeattISBN 0140424210 (0-14-042421-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus and Criseyde'Book summary:Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle Pandarus, and the lovers experience a brief period of bliss together. But the pair are soon forced apart by the inexorable tide of war and - despite their oath to remain faithful - Troilus is ultimately betrayed. Regarded by many as the greatest love poem of the Middle Ages, Troilus and Criseyde skilfully combines elements of comedy and tragedy to form an exquisite meditation on the fragility of romantic love, and the fallibility of humanity. [via]
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Valerie EliotISBN 0156948702 (0-15-694870-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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- The Waste Land and Other Poems: ISBN 015694877X (0-15-694877-X)
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. Eliot, Mary KarrISBN 0679641017 (0-679-64101-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."
As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays.
In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0486400611 (0-486-40061-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Wild Irisby Louise GluckISBN 0880013346 (0-88001-334-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wild Iris'Book summary:In an earlier set of poems, The Garden, Gluck retold the myth of Eden; in this sequence it is clear that paradise has been lost, and the poet, Eve-like, struggles to make sense of her place in the universe. For this old and still post-modern theme, Gluck bravely takes the risk of adopting a highly symbolic structure. She uses the conceit of parallel discourses between the flowers of a garden and the gardener (the poet), and between the gardener/poet and an unnamed god. The reader shares the poet's human predicament of being caught between these material and spiritual worlds, each lush and musical, drawing inspiration from both: from the flowers, a hymn to communality; from the god, a universal view of human suffering. The collection was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. [via]
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Works of Edmund Spenserby Edmund SpenserISBN 1417972831 (1-4179-7283-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Works of Edmund Spenser'Book summary:This collection of poems selected includes some of Spenser's most famous works including the set of pastoral poems, "The Shepheardes Kalender" (1579), which made Spenser's name as a poet, and his great heroic romantic poem, "The Faerie Queene" (1591). [via]
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The Works of Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queenby Edmund Spenser, Edwin Greenlaw, Charles Grosvenor OsgoodISBN 0801869846 (0-8018-6984-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen'Book summary:Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.
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Los Versos Del Capitanby Pablo NerudaISBN 9500362376 (950-03-6237-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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