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Poems of the Sea (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)by J. D. Mcclatchy
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the timeless themes of love and marriage, friendship and motherhood, the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets set has it all. There’s something for everyone to enjoy in this 75-volume set, from Animal Poems to Zen Poems. Each book comes in an elegant 256-page pocket-sized hardcover edition (4 1/8" x 6 1/4"), with full-cloth covers, lovely illustrated and jewel-tone jackets, silk ribbon markers, and gold stamping. Perfect for your home library, or as a gift for any occasion.
This set includes one each of the following titles: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry edited by Peter Washington Animal Poems edited by John Hollander Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova Auden: Poems by W. H. Auden Baudelaire: Poems by Charles Baudelaire Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru Blake: Poems by William Blake Blues Poems edited by Kevin Young Browning: Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Byron: Poems by Lord Byron, G. Gordon Chinese Erotic Poems edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping Christmas Poems edited by Peter Washington Coleridge: Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comic Poems edited by Peter Washington Conversation Pieces by Kurt Brown The Dance edited by Emily Fragos Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson Doggerel edited by Carmela Ciuraru Donne: Poems by John Donne Eliot: Poems by T. S. Eliot Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emily Bronte: Poems by Emily Bronte Erotic Poems edited by Peter Washington Eugene Onegin and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin Fatherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru Friendship Poems edited by Peter Washington Frost: Poems by Robert Frost Garden Poems edited by John Hollander The Great Cat edited by Emily Fragos Haiku edited by Peter Washington Hardy: Poems by Thomas Hardy Herbert: Poems by George Herbert Hopkins: Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins Hughes: Poems by Langston Hughes Indian Love Poems edited by Meena Alexander Jazz Poems edited by Kevin Young Keats: Poems by John Keats Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Love Letters edited by Peter Washington Love Poems edited by Peter Washington Love Songs and Sonnets edited by Peter Washington Love Speaks Its Name by J. D. McClatchy Lullabies and Poems for Children edited by Diana Secker Larson Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander Marvell: Poems by Andrew Marvell Milton: Poems by John Milton Motherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru On Wings of Song by J. D. McClatchy Persian Poets edited by Peter Washington Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath Poe: Poems by Edgar Allen Poe Poems Bewitched and Haunted edited by John Hollander Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems by Robert Burns Poems of Mourning edited by Peter Washington Poems of New York edited by Elizabeth Schmidt Poems of Sleep and Dreams edited by Peter Washington Poems of the American West edited by Robert Mezey Poems of the Sea by J. D. McClatchy Prayers edited by Peter Washington Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke Rimbaud: Poems by Arthur Rimbaud The Roman Poets edited by Peter Washington Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti Shakespeare: Poems by William Shakespeart Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley Solitude edited by Carmela Ciuraru Sonnets edited by John Hollander Stevens: Poems by Wallace Stevens Tennyson: Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson War Poems edited by Peter Washington Whitman: Poems by Walt Whitman Wordsworth: Poems by William Wordsworth Zen Poems edited by Peter Harris Everyman’s Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everyman’s Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines. Synopsis:Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankinds nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed.
This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennysons seductive sea-fairies next to Poes beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridges darkly brooding “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” alongside the grandeur of Shakespeares “Full Fathom Five.” And here is Masefields “I must go down to the seas again” alongside Cavafys “Ithaka” and Stevenss “The Idea of Order at Key West.” In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planets restless waters as metaphor, mystery, and muse. About the AuthorJ. D. McClatchy is the author of five collections of poems: Scenes From Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, Ten Commandments, and Hazmat. He has also written two books of essays: White Paper and Twenty Questions. He has edited many other books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Poets on Painters, and Horace: The Odes. In addition, he edits The Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks, and has written seven opera libretti. He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins, and is now a professor at Yale, where since 1991 he has edited The Yale Review. He lives in Stonington, Connecticut.
Table of ContentsForeword
SEA-FEVER Emily Dickinson, ‘‘Exultation is the going’’ Sara Teasdale, Sea Longing Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Return D. H. Lawrence, Mana of the Sea William Carlos Williams, Seafarer Edna St. Vincent Millay, Exiled John Masefield, Sea-fever
THE CALL OF THE DEEP John Milton, From Paradise Lost, Book VII George Gordon, Lord Byron, From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley, From Queen Mab John Keats, On the Sea Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sea Limits Christina Rossetti, By the Sea Charles Baudelaire, Man and Sea Paul Valéry, The Sea Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sound of the Sea Hart Crane, Voyages, II Slyvia Plath, Full Fathom Five
STORM AND CALM John Donne, From The Storm Percy Blythe Shelly, A Vision of the Sea Victor Hugo, The Beacon in the Storm May Swenson, A Hurricane at Sea Arthur Hugh Clough, Qua Cursum Ventus Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, A Calm at Sea May Swenson, The Even Sea
BALLADS Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens Samuel Taylor Coleridge, From The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Humphrey Gilbert Felicia Hemans, Casabianca Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Phantom Ship Anonymous, Trafalgar
SONGS AND CHANTEYS William Shakespeare, From The Tempest Anonymous, We’ll Go to Sea No More Rudyard Kipling, Frankie’s Trade Anonymous, The Death of Admiral Benbow Anonymous, Hearts of Oak Anonymous, Davey Jones’s Locker Rudyard Kipling, A Song in Storm John Masefield, A Pier-head Chorus W.S. Gilbert, From H.M.S. Pinafore Noël Coward, Matelot Anonymous, ‘‘My bounding bark’’ Anonymous, Blow the Man Down Anonymous, Drunken Sailor
ANTHEM, PRAYER, HYMN James Thomson, Rule, Britannia Anonymous, From Carmina Gadelica Herman Melville, Father Mapple’s Hymn George Darley, The Sea Ritual William Whiting, The Sailors’ Hymn
SEAFARERS John Milton, From Paradise Lost, Book XI Homer, From The Odyssey, Book XII Alfred, Lord Tennyson, From Ulysses Constantine Cavafy, Ithaka William Morris, Song of the Argonauts Anonymous, The Seafarer Joaquin Miller, Columbus George Gordon, The Pirate Oliver Wendell Holmes, Old Ironsides Archibald MacLeish, Seafarer
WRECKS AT SEA W.S. Merwin, The Shipwreck Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain Robert Lowell, The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket William Meredith, The Wreck of the Thresher
LEGENDS William Shakespeare, From Richard III Walt Whitman, The World Below the Brine Thomas Campion, In Praise of Neptune W.S. Merin, Leviathan Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Mermaid Elinor Wylie, Sea Lullaby Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe, The City in the Sea Conrad Aiken, Atlantis Walter de la Mare, Sunk Lyonesse
ABOVE AND BEYOND Herman Melville, The Berg Herman Melville, The Tuft of Kelp Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Seaweed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Lighthouse
READING THE WAVES Robert Frost, Neither Out Far Nor In Deep Marianne Moore, A Grave Amy Clampitt, Marine Surface, Low Overcast Herman Melville, Billy in the Darbies Waleter de la Mare, Echoes Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘‘Break, break, break’’ Genevieve Taggard, Sea-change Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Crossing the Bar Hart Crane, At Melville’s Tomb Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach Louise Bogan, Putting to Sea Emily Dickinson, ‘‘I started early’’ Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West T.S. Eliot, Marina Walt Whitman, As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
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