'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' GuardianThe epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature.
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds.
This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes.
This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind.
From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D.
Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth half-melted, lumpy .
A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin Waterfield.
Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "e;seven ages"e; of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime.
Se ha de leer este poema como un manifiesto político, un canto a la Argentina desolada, una expresión de quien observa la realidad de un país que está siendo devorado por las corporaciones.
Envueltos en una atmósfera de melancolía y pasión, los poemas de este libro nos transportan a un mundo donde las emociones se entrelazan con el lenguaje de una manera delicada y profunda.
Gedichte, gespeist von einem groen europaischen Fluss Uwe Kolbe spricht in seinem neuen Gedichtband Das Alter der Elbe von der Elbe und ihrem weit gefassten Einzugsgebiet.
