Browsing the "Poetry" category: 352 books
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's ...more »
ISBN: 0679642080 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 752K
"I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death," John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the ...more »
ISBN: 0679641637 / Modern Library / Pub Date: May 1994 / File Size: 853K
This Modern Library edition presents all ten histories---each complete and unabridged---in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are: King John, Richard II, Henry IV Parts I & II, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I & II & III, Richard I ...more »
ISBN: 0679641890 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 1622K
Homer's classic. The Samuel Butler translation ...more »
ISBN: 1589290097 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 612K
Virgil's epic poem of the founding of Rome ...more »
ISBN: 1589291522 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 800K
From the bestselling author of "Forever Fifty" comes a new collection of poems that tickles, consoles, and offers the pleasure of instant recognition--the perfect gift for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of 60. ...more »
ISBN: 0743212169 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 186K
This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", "The Extasie", and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love ele ...more »
ISBN: 0679641378 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Jul 1994 / File Size: 1227K
ISBN: 5551059642 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 251K
Seamus Heaney's new collection is a book about origins (not least, the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from, the ground of understanding--whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in C ...more »
ISBN: 0374701687 / FSG / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 177K
Shattered Lives: From falling in love through abuse, divorce and into new beginnings is a poetry book that can't help but worm its way into you heart, giving you hope and knowledge that even when love turn the corner into bad, there is always ho ...more »
ISBN: 0930865324 / CyberRead / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 184K
Percy Sysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence. ...more »
ISBN: 0679641912 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Jun 1994 / File Size: 1284K
This highly innovative work on poetic influence among women writers focuses on the relationship between modernist poet Elizabeth Bishop and her mentor Marianne Moore. Departing from Freudian models of influence theory that ignore the question of mate ...more »
ISBN: 1400801648 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 173K
Similar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical and often humorous poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention because most were written by anonymous amateur poets and were therefore considered popular literatu ...more »
ISBN: 0231500491 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Oct 1999 / File Size: 411K
Ms den Hartog's erotic poetry presents the complete spectrum of life with its many different facets. Whatever mood the reader is in, the chances are he/she will find a poem in this anthology that strikes a chord of recognition. ...more »
ISBN: 1929670567 / Renaissance E Books / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 87K
A collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Philip Levine. ...more »
ISBN: 1589100298 / PreviewPort Editions / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 166K
Warm and intelligent, ribald and cunning, "Boss Cupid" is the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet. ...more »
ISBN: 0374701776 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 182K
This collection features clear, moving, and witty inventions by one of America's most popular poets, Billy Collins, a Guggenheim fellow. ...more »
ISBN: 1588360954 / Random House / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 167K
"The eagerly awaited follow-up to his critically acclaimed collection The Daily Mirror, The Evening Sun gathers together 150 of David Lehman's favorite "daily poems" from 1999 and 2000 into a brilliant chronicle of a poet's heart and mind as the last ...more »
ISBN: 0743242408 / Scribner / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 151K
It has been the fate of Milton, the most Hebraic of the great English poets, to have been interpreted in this century largely by those inhospitable to his Hebraism. To remedy this lack of balance, Jason Rosenblatt reveals Milton's epic representation ...more »
ISBN: 1400806771 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 425K
ISBN: 5551059669 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 132K
ISBN: 0231500505 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Sep 1998 / File Size: 686K
A 50-poem collection from Poet S. Johnson. ...more »
ISBN: 1928973493 / DLSIJ Press / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 404K
As I sat sipping a cup of coffee, I found myself reflecting. The years have flown past so quickly. I can hardly believe my babies are grown adults; out there living their own life's pleasures and pains. I find myself missing them. ...more »
ISBN: 0930865316 / CyberRead / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 540K
ISBN: 5552040945 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 228K
ISBN: 5551058980 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 80K
