297円 Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenc...

1,098円 Banjo Paterson's ballads are as fresh and alive today as they were one hundred years ago. This lively selection of poetry and prose brings together all the old classics along with the not-so-well-known and the off-beat: a prose account of an illegal dog fight in the Botany sandhills; bungling Bri...

496円 Black Marigolds by E. Powys Mathers "This is a versified translation of the Caurapancasika. This love poem of fifty stanzas was written by the Kasmiri poet Bilhana Kavi in the 11th century. The story runs that the Brahman Bilhana had a clandestine love affair with Princess Yaminipurnatilaka,...

1,399円 Visits from the Seventh is a highly original debut. Arvio's wry, uncanny poems take the form of conversations between a woman and a throng on invisible presences--visitors, as she calls them--who counsel, challenge, cajole and comfort her. Together they murmur about destiny, the moon, a walk on P...

11,275円 The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

2,122円 you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his demise at the hands of an audacious, painstaking poet. Kimmy Beach fuses popular culture and narrat...

599円 Élégies nationales Gérard de Nerval, écrivain et un poète français (1808-1855) Ce livre numérique présente «Élégies nationales», de Gérard de Nerval, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes sections. Table des Matières -01- Présentati...

2,652円 In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek myth, readers meet receptionist Aphrodite, Sheherazad in PR, and Pandora, expectant grandmother f...

164円 The Eclogues (also called the Bucolics) are the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.Imitating the Greek Bucolica ("on care of cattle", so named from the poetry's rustic subjects) by Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretat...

650円 Reflections of a Wordsmith is a collection of poems written by Tom Dalrymple who was a former high school English teacher and avid bow hunter. The poems are an expression of his passion and love for the Arizona desert, for teaching, and for bow hunting. When you read the poems, instead of being a...

496円 The poetry in The Deep End of Hope explore the idea of keeping faith when everything seems lost because even in the moments when grief is overwhelming, there is a transient beauty that changes the individual. It's universal and personal at the same time, and out of it springs a richer life touche...

1,326円 Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns challenges us to not only read but to react. Hauntingly vivid the poems march through a soldier's lingering psychological wounds tackle the curious questions of school children on the meaning of "hate" and tan...