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Songs of Ourselves
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| Author: University of Cambridge |
| Published by: Foundation Books |
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The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English.
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Parts of the book are set for study in CIE's IGCSE, O Level and AS Level and Advanced Level Literature in English syllabuses, but it is designed to have a broader appeal and function, providing verse to enjoy for all readers of all ages and backgrounds.
It is an accessible one-volume introduction to the astonishing range of forms, styles and content of verse written in the English language over more than four centuries.
Famous poets, from Shakespeare to Heaney, mingle with a wide range of lesser known, but no less exciting and original, voices, old and new, often neglected by anthologies.
Poems have been carefully chosen for their universal appeal, avoiding anything very obscure or hard to interpret. Brief glosses are supplied where necessary to help with more difficult words, phrases and references.
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100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits
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| Author: Leslie Pockell |
| Published by: Virago Press Ltd |
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No matter what the occasion, this collection of poems is the perfect gift to cheer up a friend or family member. Here, in this compact volume, are 100 poems written by the world's greatest poets, some inspiring, some hilarious, and all memorable. Each delightful poem is preceded by an illuminating headnote. Among the poems included are classics, such as Schiller's "Ode to Joy," Wordsworth's "My Heart Leaps Up," Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life," and Dickinson's "'Hope is the Thing with Feathers." This collection includes many more captivating works that take as their exhilarating theme the limitless possibilities of human existence. Whether it's through inspired nonsense or insightful commentary, these poems will leave readers feeling happier and enriched for having read them
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101 Poems About Childhood
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Childhood, according to Rilke, was one of poetry's two inexhaustible sources. The poems in this anthology are an index of the idea of childhood, from nostalgia to expressions of love for children, from the celebration of births to the mourning of childhood death - childhood's psychology and persona, its pleasures and terrors, and the loss of innocence. Edited and introduced by Michael Donaghy, this wonderfully evocative book draws on poems from the classics to the contemporary: from Homer and Shakespeare, through Blake, Clare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Coleridge, and right up to the twentieth-century poems of Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds and Paul Muldoon.
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101 Poems That Could Save Your Life
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Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief -- or at least some literary comfort -- from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and definition to our troubles, and by so doing, ease them. No matter how bad things get, poets have been there, too, and they can help you get over the rough spots. This is the first poetry anthology designed expressly for the self-help generation. The poems listed include classics by Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, and Lucretius, to name just a few, along with newer works by such current practitioners as Seamus Heaney and Wendy Cope. This book has a cure or consolation for nearly every affliction, ancient or modern. And no side effects-except pleasure.
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121 New Zealand Poems (by 121 New Zealand Poets) - O/P
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| Author: Bill Manhire (ed.) |
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A journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of NZ - from the country's earliest poems to work by the new poets of the 21st century.
Bill Manhire - prize-winning poet, editor of several anthologies, lecturer in creative writing at Victoria University, 2004 Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Menton - chooses the top 121 NZ Poems (but includes only one poem by any poet).
The historical ordering by subject matter gives a sense of New Zealand as a place which grows and changes over the years.
The first edition was published in 1993, reprinted twice in 1994 and again later in the decade, now unavailable for five years.
There is plenty of fine new work from new poets over the past 10 year to sustain an expanded edition: Glen Colquhoun, Kate Camp, Anna Jackson, Anne Kennedy, Emma Neale, James Brown, Chris Price, Kapka Kassabova and Sonja Yelich.
NZ Poetry has been in a powerful moment of its life over the
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