Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Cats have always had a special appeal to poets - they exhibit so many human attributes, not least that characteristic Scottish trait, thrawnness.

KIPLING may be best known as a commentator on the British Empire, but he was also a vivid observer and chronicler of the sea - and of ships and all who sailed in them.

In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E.

America invertida introduces twenty-two Uruguayan poets under the age of forty to English-speaking audiences for the first time.

This is the first paperback edition of a classic anthology of Chinese poetry.

Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership.

In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990.

Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing.

Explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics.

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poets Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary.

The pure verbal energy characterizing Hungarian poetry may be regarded as one of the most striking components of Hungarian culture.

Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them.

In reviewing the Hudson Review's history of publishing poetry in translation since 1948, the editors have compiled a collection that highlights the work of major American and English poets, most of whom are prominent in their own right, who, for the last half-century, have made accessible through their translations the work of their international colleagues.

Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends is the first illustrated anthology of Turkish folk poetry and legends published in the United States.

Following her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "e;the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital,"e; Kim Roberts returns with a comprehensive anthology of poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital from the city's founding in 1800 to 1930.

The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as cities from Birmingham to Pittsburgh.

The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as cities from Birmingham to Pittsburgh.

What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most accomplished contemporary poets.

What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most accomplished contemporary poets.

An accurate, elegant rendering of major late-medieval texts, crucial to our understanding of the courtly tradition and of Chaucer.

Since its inception in 2012, the hugely successful online introduction to modern poetry known as ModPo has engaged some 415,000 readers, listeners, teachers, and poets with its focus on a modern and contemporary American tradition that runs from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson up to some of today's freshest and most experimental written and spoken verse.

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "e;a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart,"e; to the trust of Noah who builds "e;a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures,"e; the world of the Anglo-Saxon poets is a place of harshness, beauty, and wonder.

The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda.

The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity.

Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing.

Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates meeting spaces, Africa Vs North America, comprises of 107 pieces from 43 poets, 4 essayists, 6 storytellers, and 1 playwright from North America and Africa regions: professors, leading theorists and researchers.

Suburban and cosmopolitan, youthful and elderly, formal and experimentalO these binaries twist like threads which meet in this anthology, and interweave on the loom of prosody, forming rich and varied textures, Few can craft poems with the skill of these two artisans from Zimbabwe.

Intwasa Poetry is a book of memorable poems from inside and outside Zimbabwe.

The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and education encroached on the Confucian traditions at the root of Chinese society.

The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and education encroached on the Confucian traditions at the root of Chinese society.

Payne pays particular attention to poets of the fifties and sixties, futurists, and female poets.

From "e;The Afterlife of Trees"e; /Neither sheep nor cows crisscross our lives as much.

The anthology is far more culturally diverse than the few other literary collections on aging.

'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again.

From the RHS comes this celebration of the garden, spanning the centuries and the globe.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Christmas Poems & Carols - Premium Collection of the Greatest Christmas Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson)Angels from the Realms of Glory (James Montgomery)Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott)Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling)Old Santa Claus (Clement Clarke Moore)The Twelve Days of ChristmasSilent NightMinstrels (William Wordsworth)Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson)Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity (John Milton)A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)The Oxen (Thomas Hardy)A Christmas Ghost Story (Thomas Hardy)The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson)'Twas just this time, last year, I died (Emily Dickinson)The Magi (William Butler Yeats)The Mahogany Tree (William Makepeace Thackeray)A Bell (Clinton Scollard)Christmas Carol (Sara Teasdale)The Mystic's Christmas (John Greenleaf Whittier)Christmas Cheer (Thomas Tusser)Noel: Christmas Eve 1913 (Robert Seymour Bridges)The Holly and the IvyTwas the Night before Christmas - A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore)Adam lay yboundenChristmas Day (Charles Kingsley)Christmas Bells (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)Christmas Fancies (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)Twas jolly, jolly Wat (C.

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'.

This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring'.

'What will survive of us is love.

Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance.

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world.

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts.

In a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland's rich literature.

Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals.

Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the of the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign.

The art of portraiture in poetry is traceable from the Latin poets and Chaucer via Goldsmith, Wordsworth and Browning, to the modern era of Rimbaud, Cavafy, Auden, Lowell and Hofmann.

Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry.

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "e;Squarings"e;, shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "e;to credit marvels"e;.