Author : Joseph Brodsky
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374528381
With nearly 200 poems, several of them never before published in book form, this is the essential volume of the Nobel Laureate's work.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0802198449
This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
An essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.
Author : Wilfred Owen
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781853264238
This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.
Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1590178661
Kingsley Amis’s poetry tackles all the grimly humorous subjects he tackled in his novels—lust, lost love, booze, money and the lack of it, old age, death—and does so with immense formal poise. A master of both traditional and unconventional meters with a perfect ear for parody, Amis wrote satires, epigrams, and rueful and scornful songs that are remarkable not only for their virtuosity and humor but for their scabrous realism. It all adds up to a small, entirely individual, and memorably bracing body of work. As Amis writes: “Beauty, they tell me, is a dangerous thing, / Whose touch will burn, but I’m asbestos, see?”
Author : Ron Padgett
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1566893429
Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141916036
No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in religious meditations such as 'Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward' as it is in secular love poems such as 'The Sun Rising' or 'The Flea'. 'The intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion,' wrote Yeats, pinpointing the unique genius of a poet who combined ardour and intellect in equal measure.
Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1466880570
Collected Poems brings together nearly four decades of C. K.Williams's work: more than four hundred poems that, though remarkable in their variety, have in common Williams's distinctive outlook—restless, passionate, dogged, and uncompromising in the drive to find words for the truth about life as we know it today. Williams's rangy, elastic lines are measures of thought, and in these pages we watch them unfold from his confrontational early poems through the open, expansive Tar and With Ignorance. His voice is both cerebral and muscular, capable of both the eightline poems of Flesh and Blood and the inward soundings of A Dream of Mind—and of both together in the award-winning recent books Repair and The Singing. These poems feel spontaneous, individual, and directly representative of the experience of which they sing; open to life, they chafe against summary and conclusion. Few poets leave behind them a body of work that is global in its ambition and achievement. C. K. Williams is one of them.
Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 014196586X
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery drawn from musical structures, the natural world and domestic activity to explore a mosaic of Biblical themes. From the wit and wordplay of 'The Pulley' and the formal experimentation of 'Easter Wings' and 'Paradise', to the intense, highly personal relationship between man and God portrayed in 'The Collar' and 'Redemption', the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love.
Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0192833448
'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 and 21, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world. In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa. Out of the brief, colourful life and the poetry of sensory wildness has been created the myth of Rimbaud, an enduring icon of youth, rebellion, and freedom. But behind the myth lies a poetic adventure of high ambition and painful rigour, poignant yet heroic. Rimbaud is one of the greatest French poets of all times. This bilingual edition provides all of Rimbaud's poems, with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments. It also includes some of his prose pieces, chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic concerns.
