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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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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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Leaves of Grass-150TH Anniversary Edition (05 Edition)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments This collection remains the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets-a passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done....
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William Wordsworth : Major Works Including , Prelude (84 Edition)
by William Wordsworth Publisher Comments William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry...
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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. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was...
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Ramayana (81 Edition)
by William Buck Synopsis The "Ramayana", along with the "Mahabharata" make up the framework of the Hindu religious, cultural, and social imagination. This retelling seeks to capture the essence of the Indian cultural heritage....
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell : a Facsimile in Full Color (94 Edition)
by William Blake Publisher Comments Inspired satire on religion and morality, including 70 aphorisms of "Proverbs of Hell." 27 full-color plates, full text....
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Mahabharata (73 Edition)
by William Buck Synopsis The "Mahabharata" is a tale of a feud between two branches of a single Indian ruling family that culminates in a vast, cataclysimic battle. This retelling of the story seeks to capture the essence of the Indian cultural heritage....
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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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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
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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Songs of Experience : a Facsimile Reproduction (84 Edition)
by William Blake Publisher Comments This facsimile of Blake's original "Illuminated Book" reproduces 26 full-color plates from a rare 1826 edition. Includes "The Tyger," "London," "Holy Thursday," and other immortal poems. 26 color plates. Printed text of poems....
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Domestic Work (00 Edition)
by Natasha Trethewey
Publisher Comments In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken from a labor–filled day reveal the equally hard...
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Leaves of Grass the Death Bed Edition
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's...
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Complete Sonnets and Poems (02 Edition)
by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how...
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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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New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2ND 93 Edition)
by Alex Preminger 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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Leaves of Grass (59 Edition)
by Walt Whitman Synopsis This reprinting of the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" contains the original 12 poems and Whitman's introduction in which he states his poetic credo. It includes Malcolm Cowley's commentary, first published in 1959....
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Poems, Poets, Poetry
by Helen (edt) Vendler Publisher Comments - An introduction to poetry by a renowned critic and teacher. Recognized internationally as one of America's greatest literary critics, Helen Vendler is a frequent reviewer of poetry for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Poems, Poets...
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Poems of Arab Andalusia (89 Edition)
by Cola (translator) Franzen Publisher Comments These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spanish...
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John Donne's Poetry ((3RD)07 Edition)
by John Donne Publisher Comments "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...
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