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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney  
Powells.com Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a...
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The Book of Songs
by Arthur Waley Publisher Comments One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things: deeds...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece...
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson Publisher Comments The only one-volume edition containing all 1,775 of Emily Dickinson's poems. Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early...
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The Making of a Poem (Norton Anthology)
by Mark Strand Publisher Comments Two esteemed poets collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of a most elusive art. Intended for those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, "The Making of a Poem...
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Nine Gates : Entering the Mind of Poetry (97 Edition)
by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments Poetry and the Mind of Concentration Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections--language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps...
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Whitman: Poetry and Prose (Library of America)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments This Library of America edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman (1819–1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in...
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Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Here is the definitive collection of his work, from his solemn masterpeice "When Lilacs Last in the...
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Ramayana
by William Buck Publisher Comments The classic Sanskrit epic retold by William Buck....
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Mahabharata (73 Edition)
by William Buck Publisher Comments William Buck's stirring retelling of a classic Indian epic--in its original Sanskrit, probably the largest epic ever composed....
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Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson Publisher Comments This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the...
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Poems of Emily Dickinson, Reading Edition (99 Edition)
by Emily Dickinson Publisher Comments There is a word<P>Which bears a sword<P>Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written...
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Inanna
by Diane Wolkstein Publisher Comments A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade...
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Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (01 Edition)
by John Donne Publisher Comments An accessible and comprehensive gathering of the works of the metaphysical English poet John Donne, a writer who has continued to loom large on the literary landscape (after a long period of obscurity) since his championing by TS Eliot and others. With a...
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Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (02 Edition)
by William Wordsworth Publisher Comments <p>In addition to the complete 1798 London edition of <i>Lyrical Ballads, </i> this volume contains a generous sampling of ballads, rustic and humanitarian poetry, and nature poems by the poets' contemporaries; literary...
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Mcgraw-hill Book of Poetry (93 Edition)
by Robert Diyanni Publisher Comments This is, perhaps, the widest ranging, most comprehensive poetry collection available, and it is useful for poetry courses at all levels. It contains an excellent introduction to reading poetry and understanding the elements, as well as sections on poems...
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Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794
by William Blake Publisher Comments Here is a beautifully illustrated edition of Blake's classic poems. The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plate, and a brief commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes on each poem follows. It is printed on paper especially...
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The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
by Princeton Publisher Comments The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their...
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Seventeenth-century British Poetry (06 Edition)
by John P. Rumrich Publisher Comments Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition. A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of...
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Western Wind : an Introduction To Poetry (5TH 06 Edition)
by David Mason Publisher Comments WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected...
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