100 Best Poems of All Time
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Sell my copyAuthor: Leslie Pockell
Title: 100 Best Poems of All Time
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 208
Release Date: 2001-03-01
Details: This poetry companion puts favourite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips, enabling you to revisit the classics, encounter unfamiliar masterworks and rediscover old favorites.
Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to carry around their favorite poems, and ideal for the reader seeking an introduction to the greatest poems world literature has to offer. The authors included are each represented by his or her best-known and best-loved work, from the Classics (Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Ovid) to the Renaissance (Dante, Petrarch, Villon, Shakespeare) to the Romantics (Schiller, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats) to the 20th Century giants (Pound, Eliot, Frost, Stevens) down to the present day (Ginsberg, Plath, Angelou). Each poem is introduced by a brief head note which details the poet's life history as well as the poem's significance.
EAN: 9780446676816
Package Dimensions: Height: 8 Inches, Length: 5.25 Inches, Weight: 0.3968320716 Pounds, Width: 0.75 Inches
