The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
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The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
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Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebration ...Show more
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poetry by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat "for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows", where they get married. Long considered one of the n ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by)
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An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in t ...Show more
The Prelude and Other Poems by William Wordsworth
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"Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the dinOf towns in cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart" William Wordsworth's verse w ...Show more
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Timeless Classics) by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
Share in Dickinson's admiration of language, nature, and life and death, with The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson's finest poems. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to ...Show more
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Famous for juxtaposing Eastern cultures with Western literary references, The Waste Land has been celebrated for its eloquence, depth of meaning, and numerous subtleties. Rich with allusions to the religious texts of Hinduism and Buddhism, ancient literature, and Eliot's own life, the poem continues to ...Show more
W. B. Yeats: The Great Poets by W.B. Yeats
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.' W B Yeats was one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. Winner of ...Show more
Watering the Soul by Courtney Peppernell
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Poetry and prose to encourage us to grow. Watering the Soul is a timeless reminder that everyone needs time, love, and forgiveness. From bestselling poet Courtney Peppernell comes a new book of poetry and prose, Watering the Soul. What began as a desire to spread positivity quickly became a project tha ...Show more