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Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to the bitter comedy of political chaos, this collection of poems covering two centuries includes work by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet…
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Peter Washington
It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. In order to give the greatest possible access to a…
Jalalu'l-Din Rumi
This volume draws on a wide variety of translations - from the early 20th century to the present - of Rumi’s deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.
Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a remarkable power to distill the essence of a moment keenly perceived. For centuries…
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Step into the fantasy world, of artist Peter Washington. A strange and spectacular world of beautiful and deadly warrior women. A world of elegant queens and exotic enchantress beyond imagination…
Filled with captivating artwork of exotic fairies, elegant queens, mysterious mermaids, and breath taking female warriors, this book has it all! Divas Of Wonder The Fantasy Art Of Peter Washington…
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The Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets–Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and…
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The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on…
A collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin.
In the same intimate format as Everyman’s bestselling Love Poems , this collection of songs, sonnets, and lyric poems that focus on love in the widest sense–and which encompass relationships…
These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an act of the imagination as…
Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people’s lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love…
Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected…
Featuring decorative eighteenth-century engravings, a treasury of humor, love, wit, satire, and lyricism drawn from the immortal work of the Roman poets, from Catullus to Virgil, includes translations by great…
A celebration of friendship in all its aspects–from the delight of making a new friend to the serene joys of longtime devotion. Poems about best friends, false friends, dear friends…
From Yeats’s Lullaby to Rosetti’s Nuptial Sleep, from Salvatore Quasimodo’s Insomnia to Thom Gunn’s Annihilation of Nothing, Poems of Sleep and Dreams evokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum of sleep…
The chilling classic ghost stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. It includes stories by such legendary writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, P.F…
This volume gathers together some of the most powerful poems from the greatest Russian poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Arranged by theme and presented in the best available…
Beginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its way back through the golden age of the 1920s and ‘30s to the…
A collection of poems about love and romance by famous poets from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, this book set these themes in the wider religious and…
A collection of poems on the theme of mourning by some of the world’s great poets.
Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…
Brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples from Europe and America. This book is dominated by four great masters…
Part of a series of small volumes with silk ribbon markers and headbands and gold stamping on the front and spine, and devoted to the world’s classic poets. This is…
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Arthur Rimbaud
The Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rimbaud contains selections from Rimbaud’s work, including over…
Lord G. Gordon Byron
Gathers together the works of the nineteenth-century English poet.
John Donne
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William Blake
William Blake’s highly personal messages of humanity and social conscience are as relevant today as in 18th-century London. Although Blake’s works were ignored or dismissed until long after his death…
Emily Dickinson
Gathers together poems by the nineteenth-century American poet.
T. S. Eliot
In the delightfully small Pocket Poets format that has proved so popular, a selection of the early poems of one of the greatest and most influential poets of our century…
Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to each other, this collection presents their work in the chronological context of their…
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria’s favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse…
Rudyard Kipling
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English…
Rainer Maria Rilke
Gathers selected sonnets, elegies, and poems about mythology, the past, famil life, and nature.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with this witty satire of New York’s upper classes. This edition is introduced by award-winning novelist Rachel…
Edgar Allan Poe
/POE EDGAR ALLAN Poe’s poems have been memorized and recited by millions. Among his best-loved works are The Raven with its hypnotic chant of nevermore , and the sensuous and…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death…
Charles Dickens
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and…
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady tells the compelling and ultimately tragic tale of a beautiful young American woman’s encounter with European sophistication
Anna Akhmatova
A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova-denounced by the Soviet regime for her eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference…
Victor Hugo
The nineteenth-century Frenchman’s epic work which depicts the life of Jean Valjean, a reformed convict who has dedicated his life to helping others.
John Keats
A selection of poems by the English Romantic poet.
William Wordsworth
Of all the lasting innovations that William Wordsworth (1770-1850) brought to our literature, it is his discovery of nature and his fresh vision of human lives in the context of…
A companion to Love Poems and Erotic Poems , this selection draws on literature of many periods and languages to illuminate aspects of friendship, ranging from social acquaintance through personal…
