This book contains a collection of the great est love letters of all time from 200 of the world''s most ar ticulate lovers. They include Napoleon, Elinor Wylie, Byron, James Joyce, Zelda Fitzgerald and many others. '
The fourth volume in the successful Everyman ''s Library pocket series on love poems, Love Songs and Sonne ts takes a wide view of love, covering all aspects of human relationships, from passionate love to final regret. '
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, lost friends, even animal friends. These poems have been selected from the work of great poets in all times and places, including Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden, Henry ...
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 lives. Ribbon marker.
Just before the turn of the century, a renegade Russian aristocrat named Madame Blavatsky came to America claiming that man was descended not from the ape but from spiritual beings. Thus began Theosophy, the very first "new age" religion. This thought-provoking and often hilarious study delineates the course of Theosophy and other sects which have ...
HERE, AT LAST is a book of "uncommon common sense" for young people by someone who has worked with them for thirty-five years. F. Washington Jarvis is one of the nation's most eminent educators, now in his twenty-eight year as headmaster of Boston's Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continuous operation in North America. Jarvis's approach ...
Prepared by cardiology fellows and residents and reviewed by attending cardiologists, this quick-reference handbook from the Washington University School of Medicine is a pragmatic guide to the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of cardiovascular disease. The text is fully supported with illustrative tables and figures. It covers symptoms ...
Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together a fascinating selection, giving us a detailed portrait of the composer's life and times. Here are letters to and from Mozart's domineering father, Leopold, the earliest of which, addressed to a friend ...
George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection. Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and ...
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings," by Washington Irving, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes ...
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. Wodehouse, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, and Edith Wharton.
This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets--from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W.H. Auden--and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse. Ribbon marker.
A collection of poems about some of life's greatest pleasures: eating, drinking, and celebrating with friends. Poets include Horace, Rumi, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and John Updike.
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. This essential collection includes that towering landmark of modernism, "The Waste Land", as well as such keenly ironic classics as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and ...
Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. This treasury of poets-Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, ...
Most of the poems in this collection are abo ut death, all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a su prisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resign ation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty. '
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 literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including "Kim" and "The Jungle Book," Kipling was a prolific ...
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul.
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 confined to a small literary elite in Japan, the writing of haiku is now practiced all over the world by those who are fascinated by its combination of technical ...
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 devotion to estrangement and antipathy.
Intended to follow on from and complement "Love Poems" - also part of the "Everyman's Pocket Poets" series - this book contains a selection of erotic verse. The emphasis is on the tender, sensuous, witty and passionate aspects of erotic poetry.
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