Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom
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Category: Poetry
A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an eleg ...Show more
Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals by Merlinda Bobis
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Category: Poetry
I, to, can love you in my dialect, you know, punctuated with cicadas and their eternal afternoons - To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls once burst the moon/ with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain-- To do all these in peac ...Show more
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Harold Bloom
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Category: Poetry
Almost all other poetry anthologies have been edited and annotated by a committee of scholars. This is entirely Bloom's selection with his own inimitable commentary. This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book ...Show more
William Blake : selected poems by William Blake (selected by Peter Butter)
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Category: Poetry
The best of William Blake's poems in a beautiful gift edition William Blake (1757-1827) was born in London, the son of a Dissenter. He learned drawing and engraving, and later became a painter. he married in 1782, published his first poems on 1783, and despite poverty, wrote and illustrated his own wo ...Show more
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
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Category: Poetry
"Songs of Innocence and of Experience" is a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Internationally recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, it also occupies a key position in the history of western art. This unique edition of the work allows Blake to comm ...Show more
Songs of Innocence and of Experience - Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794 by William Blake; Geoffrey Keynes (Other)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Paperbacks Ser.
Here is a beautifully illustrated edition of Blake's classic poems. The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plate, and a brief commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes on each poem follows. It is printed on paper especially manufactured to match the tint of that used by Blake ...Show more
William Blake : Selected Poetry by W. H. (EDT) William; Stevenson Blake
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Poetry Library
Event: Poems by Judith Bishop
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Category: Poetry | Series: Salt Modern Poets S.
"Event", the first book by Australian poet Judith Bishop, is the work of a border-crosser. Emotionally intense, formally inventive and musical, with influences ranging from Ted Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop to Yves Bonnefoy, these poems have won prestigious awards in Australia and the U.S. and feature in ...Show more
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake, edited by G. E. Bentley
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings depict a ...Show more