It is the poetry of the First World War above all else that has seared the horror of this conflict onto our collective memory. It was a war of poets, as professional writers and ordinary humanity took up the pen to try to record, interpret, mourn, or... Zobraziť viac
Výbor z poezie dvou básníků, kteří se nikdy nesetkali - moravského Jana Skácela a slovenského Milana Rúfuse... Zobraziť viac
The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901 – 1986) and Karel Teige (1900 – 1951). Zobraziť viac
This entirely new translation includes Petrarch`s short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux , and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere , Petrarch`s best-known work in Italian. Zobraziť viac
These and many others are famous lines of poetry that often occur in everyday speech. But do you know the rest of the verse, or even the rest of the poem? ... Zobraziť viac
A curated collection of essential poems by American writer Emily Dickinson, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. Zobraziť viac
Bringing the spirit and beauty of Yeats’s writing to a whole new young audience! This sumptuously illustrated book complements the carefully selected works of W.B. Yeats, which include poems, stories, ... Zobraziť viac
Kúpte si túto špeciálnu kolekciu a spolu s titulom Osemnásť básní/Eighteen Poems od nás obdržíte aj knižný darček. Potešiť sa tak môžete knihou básní od Jamesa Wrighta - Červenokrídly drozd, ktorú dostanete úplne zadarmo... Zobraziť viac
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off... Zobraziť viac
The present monograph Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets analyses the significance of Pythagorean cosmology for the understanding the world and man in the English Renaissance. The author perceives Pythagorean cosmology as a key concept for... Zobraziť viac
A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak.... Zobraziť viac
The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Since the sixties, each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who were ... Zobraziť viac
The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover... Zobraziť viac
In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it... Zobraziť viac
A gem-like selection of Stevie Smith's best-loved poems: 'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.... Zobraziť viac
Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering ... Zobraziť viac
Classic / British English. 'We'll give a free dinner to the person who tells the best story. Now, put up your hands if you agree.' The pilgrims all held up their hands. A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to Canterbury... Zobraziť viac
The epic, beautiful poem Rubaiyat is widely attributed to Omar Khayyam. As much a philosopher as a poet, he was a Persian astronomer, who praised the beauties... Zobraziť viac
For over half a century, Jay Wright’s poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity. Wright’s inexorable lyric voice, whose gravitational pull has an ‘indelible music’, transforms life into myth,... Zobraziť viac
