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| Автор | A. E. Housman |
"A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly...
| Автор | Роберт Стивенсон |
"A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly...
| Автор | Роберт Стивенсон |
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was an English poet and classical scholar whose work became a major force in turn-of-the-century English poetry. Unlike his contemporaries, Houseman's poetry does not qualify as Romantic, Victorian or Modernist, and is not overly sentimental or optimistic; instead, his deeply pessimistic and ironic poetry, written clearly and succinctly, earned Housman notoriety as one of the foremost classicists of his time. His best-known work, «A Shropshire Lad», is a...
| Автор | A. E. Housman |
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was an English poet and classical scholar whose work became a major force in turn-of-the-century English poetry. Unlike his contemporaries, Houseman's poetry does not qualify as Romantic, Victorian or Modernist, and is not overly sentimental or optimistic; instead, his deeply pessimistic and ironic poetry, written clearly and succinctly, earned Housman notoriety as one of the foremost classicists of his time. His best-known work, «A Shropshire Lad», is a...
| Автор | A. E. Housman |
Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a «poet of the people.»Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as «Chicago,» «Fog,» «To a Contemporary Bunkshooter,» «Who Am I?» and «Under the Harvest Moon,» as well as numerous others on themes of war,...
| Автор | Carl Sandburg Sandburg |
Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a «poet of the people.»Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as «Chicago,» «Fog,» «To a Contemporary Bunkshooter,» «Who Am I?» and «Under the Harvest Moon,» as well as numerous others on themes of war,...
| Автор | Carl Sandburg Sandburg |
Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a «poet of the people.»Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as «Chicago,» «Fog,» «To a Contemporary Bunkshooter,» «Who Am I?» and «Under the Harvest Moon,» as well as numerous others on themes of war,...
| Автор | Carl Sandburg Sandburg |
The great Roman poet Lucan (39–65 AD) is considered one of the most important Latin Poets of all time. His masterful epic «Pharsalia,» or «Civil War» chronicles the dynamic battle between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The Great Civil War led to the downfall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Roman Empire. «Civil War» is divided into ten books, tracking Caesar's march to Rome, through Spain, and finally to Egpyt. The cast of characters is wide: Brutus, Cicero, and...
| Автор | Lucan |
The great Roman poet Lucan (39–65 AD) is considered one of the most important Latin Poets of all time. His masterful epic «Pharsalia,» or «Civil War» chronicles the dynamic battle between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The Great Civil War led to the downfall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Roman Empire. «Civil War» is divided into ten books, tracking Caesar's march to Rome, through Spain, and finally to Egpyt. The cast of characters is wide: Brutus, Cicero, and...
| Автор | Lucan |
It has been said that a copy of Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline could be found in every literate household in America in the nineteenth century. Certainly its poignant romance touched many hearts and stirred deepening interest in the Maine-born Harvard educator who, in his lifetime, would become America's most famous poet. This book contains the complete Evangeline and a number of other widely admired Longfellow poems.Included are the memorable «The Skeleton in Armor,» «The...
| Автор | Генри Уодсуорт Лонгфелло |
The Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, and it is one of the major religious documents of the world, occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity. One of the most celebrated treasures of world literature as well, it is in the form of a poetic dialogue between the epic's hero, Arjuna, and his friend Krishna, believed to be an incarnation of God.The dialogue, which takes place on the eve of an historic battle, probes the nature...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
"Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."—The New Yorker"These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings."—The Believer"My master plan is happiness," writes Michael Dickman in his wonderfully strange third book, Green Migraine. Here, imagination and reality swirl in the juxtaposition between beauty...
| Автор | Michael Dickman |
• Previous books include American Odalisque, August Zero, (OP) and Memory at these Speeds (CCP). Average sales: 1750 copies. • Other books include Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel (1992, 0472064800, Univ. Of Michigan Poets on Poetry Series) and Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan Univ. Press, OP) • Recipient of Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and the Western States Book Award for Poetry....
| Автор | Jane Miller |
"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."—Booklist "Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the profane."—Time Out New York The poetry of Lucia Perillo is...
| Автор | Lucia Perillo |
Carefully chosen collection contains 34 of Carroll's most appealing verses — nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, more — including such unforgettable pieces as «The Walrus and the Carpenter,» «The Mock Turtle's Song,» and «Father William,» as well as such lesser-known gems as «My Fancy,» «A Sea Dirge,» «Brother and Sister,» «Hiawatha's Photographing,» «The Mad Gardener's Song,» «What Tottles Meant,» «Poeta Fit, non Nascitur,» «The Little Man That Had a...
| Автор | Lewis Carroll |
Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of the Western world. Its roots lie in the Genesis account of the world's creation and the first humans; its focus is a poetic interpretation «Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe / With loss of Eden.»In sublime poetry of extraordinary beauty,...
| Автор | Джон Мильтон |
The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.<br><br>The poetry of Walter de la Mare sings boldly and beautifully without any of these hedges and condescensions. His work has the honest candor of the border ballads and the fairy tales: as well as unmitigated joys, they are full of the dangers and horrors and sorrows that every child soon knows to be part of the world, however vainly...
| Автор | Walter de la Mare |
Written between 1845 and 1846 and first published in 1850, “Sonnets from the Portuguese” is a series of love poems written by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her husband, the famous English poet and playwright, Robert Browning, which was critically acclaimed and instantly popular upon its publication and has remained so to this day. Referring to her olive-skinned complexion, Robert called his wife “his little Portuguese”. It is from this nickname that the title “Sonnets from the...
| Автор | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |