Hermester Barrington's Shelf of Poetry at Powell's

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which... (read more)

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The major poetic and prose works of Blake are accompanied by his illuminations and selected criticism.... (read more)

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Byrons exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where... (read more)

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Selected titles, third edition.... (read more)

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"Donald Dickson's John Donne's Poetry is the best text of Donne now available. It is scrupulously edited, and equally useful for students and for scholars."—Harold Bloom, Yale University The texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have... (read more)

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Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally regarded by the Chinese as their two greatest poets. Together their poetry encompasses all of human nature. Escapist but earthy, spiritual but realistic, romantic but precise, these two are often appropriately referred... (read more)

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Jonson is represented by a wide selection from the Epigrams, including the mock epic On the Famous Voyage; The Forest, complete; extensive selections from Underwood, including such well-known pieces as A Celebration of Charis and the Cary-Morison ode... (read more)

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'Sor Juana with her intricate conceits, torrents of imagery and baroque opulence... inspires and challenges Trueblood to transform the Spanish verse forms into contemporary equivalents. He triumphs.' - Robert Taylor, Boston Globe.... (read more)

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The owls, hen, larks, and their nests in his beard, are among the fey fauna and peculiar persons inhabiting the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawings of Lear (20th child of a London stockbroker), whose Book of Nonsense, first published in 1846... (read more)