'The Man Who Would be King' is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. Only one of the men re...
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This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488–1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Bashō, Issa, Shiki, and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars...
Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly popular of all the English poets.
Wordsworth's verse declares a belief in the power of poetry to teac...
Published in the fiery days of World War II, Four Quartets stands as a testament to the power of poetry amid the chaos of the time. Let the words speak for themselves: "Th...
Likely composed in the 1580s by Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella is an English sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. The name derives from the two Greek ...
Like Ariosto's iOrlando Furioso/i, Boiardo's chivalric verse tale, dating from the 1480s, first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara. Inventive, humorous...
This collection of works by Sir Philip Sidney includes Defence of Poesie, the most entertaining and penetrating critical essay of the period. Sidney's extraordinary origin...
For those who are familiar with Yeats' poetry, particulary his beloved early poems like "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," reading "Rosa Alchemica" is an experience of joy. Cal...
Arranged in chronological sequence, The Secret Rose offers a glimpse of all Yeats' styles-beginning with his youthful romantic idealism and ending with his more outspoken,...
William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world.
This selection was commissioned...
This volume brings together all of Berryman’s poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last m...
One of the greatest English poets of the mid-seventeenth century, Richard Crashaw is still widely neglected and misunderstood. Published to celebrate the 400th anniversary...
Jonathan Chaves makes available a vast store of rich and significant poems by both major and minor poets from China's last three dynasties. Featured are poems from the Yua...
These volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider ...
В сборник избранных произведений Р. Киплинга (1865 - 1936), английского беллетриста и поэта вошли стихотворения, и рассказы. Книга на английском языке.
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with...
В творчестве этого величайшего из английских поэтов конца XIX века особое место занимают поэтические сборники "Баллады казарм", "Семь морей" и "Пять народов" (1889-1903): ...
<p>Другие названия: Rolling down to Rio; "Амазонка, Амазонка!"; "Я в Бразилию не плавал..."; На далёкой Амазонке</p>
Written in 1855 and first published in the collection "Men and Women", Browning's narrative poem later served as the inspiration for Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series.
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The Tower is a collection of poems by the Nobel laureate W. B. Yeats, inspired by his own tower in Ireland. In these poems, Yeats reflects on his aging body, his artistic ...