Synopses & Reviews
More than 400 great poets in one value-priced volume.With nearly 440 poems by such greats as Plato, Shakespeare, Bryon, Keats, Christina Rossetti, Wilde, Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Sandburg, and more, this invaluable compendium captures the full breadth of human experience and emotions. The well-loved verses that fill these pages cover such universal topics as Aging, Beauty, Bereavement, Brotherhood, Celebration, Courage, Greed, Faith, Farewells, Friendship, Fun, and of course, Love. Here are such favorites as Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” and Samuel Taylor Coleridges “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” T.S. Eliots “The Hollow Men,” with its haunting verbal images, captures the emptiness of disillusionment, while Alexander Popes “Epigram” (“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: / Knock as you please, theres nobody at home”) offers pure, wry amusement. Everyone who appreciates the power of words to reaffirm the soul and express the deepest and most intimate of feelings will treasure these masterpieces.
Synopsis
This beautifully designed volume celebrates ability of poetry to capture in a few words the thoughts and emotions that reach to the heart of human experience, flashing insight on the universal truths that unite all of us. Everyone who appreciates the power Of poetry to reaffirm the soul, to express universal truths, as well as our most intimate feelings, will treasure these masterpieces from Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Byron, Yeats, Dickinson, Teasdale, Emerson, and so many others. Whether it is Lord Tennyson's metaphor for aging in "The Oak, " or Emily Dickinson's psalm of faith in "I Never Saw a Moor, " the verses in this volume are moving. No matter what century they were written in, even today they touch our souls.